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.


I appear my children on this former bank building in Florida, Our Lady Clothed with the Sun.

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December 19th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 1 Period I.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries
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   at his Jesuit residence
   in
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Excerpt from January 21, 2001

Messenger:  Jesus has chosen us to spread His love to the world. Jesus has called us to help bring about the Reign of His Sacred Heart.

Our union is so deep in Their Hearts.

Our desire so great to help to save souls

Our desire so great to help lead men into a loving relationship with the Sacred Heart of our Beloved Jesus. It is there they will dwell in His Heart and be united in such oneness.

I cannot stress the importance that the priest plays in celebrating the Mass and administering the Sacraments. He is the key in helping grace to flow to the people. 

Jesus has allowed me to experience the heights of heaven in so many Masses. He takes me to the inner chambers of His Heart and there He gives me great insight and knowledge about the great treasures found in the Mass.

My heart cries out, to want to spread this knowledge to souls, but I feel like a person unable to speak trying to disclose this information to a world that is deaf and does not even want to hear.

And yet my heart sings and my lips quiver as I am filled inside with the knowledge He has implanted deep within me.

I am not afraid, I am just unable to even write about it and yet it is so real to me.

The gifts and treasures of the Mass, the insights into the Divine Mysteries are so real to me.

Our hearts are merged in deepest love in Him especially at Mass.

    

  

Excerpt from January 11, 1997

One Month after Mary appeared 8 years ago
in
Clearwater , Florida
 

God the Father:  I am the Father. I am the Almighty God. You must believe I have chosen you. I have called each member here this day to hear this message. I have called you to be the apostles of the new era of peace. I have called you by name. You will lead men to the Heart of My Son. You must listen and focus all of your attention to this mission I have given to you.

    I am the Father. From the day you were conceived, I formed you in your mother's womb, knowing the great mission I would call you to today. My children, My children, do not be distracted by the evil one to lead you astray. I am counting on you, My beloved shepherds. You must not be led astray by doing other good works. I have called you, this is My plan, it is unfolding. You are a major part of the success of this plan for the renewal of the Church and the world.

    Your work in the Shepherds of Christ Movement greatly pleases Me.

    I AM, WHO AM. I am the Alpha and the Omega. I am the Almighty God. You must be obedient children. It is through your obedience that the consecration will spread to many souls on the earth.

    It is through your obedience to help spread the priestly newsletter and start prayer chapters in churches that many priests will love God with the greatest love in the Mass. I am asking you to spread the Mass Book to priests and sisters. Please pray for the priestly newsletter, the quick spread of the material given in the newsletter and for the priests reading the newsletter.

    Heaven has contacted the earth. The light will shine in the dark corners of the world. Men will respond to the Shepherds of Christ Movement. You must not be afraid. You must do as I have asked you.

    I have called you by name, My chosen ones, from the beginning I formed you and I gave to you the talents needed to accomplish this mission on the earth.

    Your talents are gifts from Me to be used for this purpose. You are the Shepherds of Christ. You are the apostles of the new era.

    There will be a new earth, there will be love on this earth as I intend it to be. My children will love one another, you will walk hand in hand, loving God and one another in harmony and peace.

R. ...Thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven...

Jn 1:1-18 (From The New Jerusalem Bible):

In the beginning was the Word:
the Word was with God
and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning.
Through Him all things came into being,
not one thing came into being except through Him.
What has come into being in Him was life,
life that was the light of men;
and light shines in darkness,
and darkness could not overpower it.

  
end of excerpt from
January 11, 1997 God the Father message (one month after Mary first appeared)

    

  

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

                                 

                                  The Christian and Church
 

       The Church is the Body of Christ. One of the truths that is emphasized by this concept is the idea of community. The communion that binds the members of the Church together is, in turn, connected with that wider idea of community that embraces the whole of mankind.

       The millions and millions of people the world over make up what might be called the world community. The members of this cosmic community are supposed to live in a basic love for one another, united in bonds of mutual support and interdependence. This is true because God has created persons as social beings. We are not intended to cut an isolated path through life. We are meant to walk hand in hand with each other, to live within a societal structure, to help others in many different ways. What is more, we must also realize that, in achieving our destiny, we receive much aid, support, and love from others. There are all too many striking examples of how the modern world has failed to live community—more than enough to make us agonize over man's inhumanity toward his fellow human beings. But there are also many beautiful and ongoing examples of how the world has succeeded in living community—enough to strengthen our belief in the basic goodness of the human heart.

"The leader in helping form a better community among the members of the human family is the Body of Christ. God has established the Church as a leaven for the development of a graced society of human beings. The bonds of union that hold the human race together have been strengthened by the redemptive work of Christ. Despite the fact that many do not realize it, there is only one fundamental community that embraces everybody -- and it is Christic. The Church is, in turn, a great channel of grace that deepens this Christic image of the world society."

Response to God's Love, Rev. Edward Carter, S.J., p. 67-68.

    

  

Excerpt from August 14, 2004  
Talk from the Retreat

{Messenger:  And so we see the little communities, the family and the religious institutions. We see them as trying to grow in that greater perfection, to strengthen this communal union that should be in the Church amongst it's people.}

(RTGL continues) The millions and millions of people the world over make up what might be called the world community. 

{Messenger:  And then in turn strengthen the world community because the Church is a strong community. But naturally the devil is going to get in there and try to attack all of these institutions, to try to make so that they're divided. And the thing of it is, is that in the Church we have Jesus truly present in His Divinity and Humanity. What a gift! What a strengthening force. God dwells within us, in a special way, when we are in the state of grace. We are graced by this presence within us.}…  

{Messenger:  So that is what I see, as soon as somebody has a problem with somebody, then they think, well I just go somewhere by themselves. Well how are they going to grow and be perfected and loving in union with one another if they are going to go hide if they're having a problem with somebody. We got to work it out. That's the thing. We can't do the work of God if we don't end up working in union with each other. Unless He's called us to be a hermit and then we've got that in our heart anyway that, that we're working for the world and the Church.}...  

{Messenger:  And that's why Mary comes and she's got the answer, the Mary, the Queen of Peace, if we listened to her since the beginning of the century and at Fatima when she says that we must pray the rosary. Why? Because we meditate on the lives of Jesus and Mary. We must pray the rosary.}  

(RTGL continues) The Christian community is a terrestrial reflection of the ultimate and absolute community—namely, the Trinity. 

{Messenger:  I love this, this just makes my heart burn.}

(RTGL continues) In a special way, we are privileged to give witness to Trinitarian life, a life of divine intimacy and loving. 

{Messenger:  Three Persons in one God, the perfect community.}

(RTGL continues) From all eternity, the persons of the Trinity are united in the most intimate bonds of knowledge and love; these have also brought about creation and redemption.

{Messenger:  The 3 Persons of the Trinity, perfect — One God.}

(RTGL continues) Grace, or the Christ-life, is a created participation in Trinitarian life. This Christ-life, consequently, calls us to a special existence of knowing and loving. Christian faith and love, which are created participations in the Trinity's knowing and loving, allow us to know and love God in a special manner. Faith and love also give us a new capacity to relate to both our fellow Christians and to all others as well. 

{Messenger:  So do you see why God has called us to be a special community in the Church that is united in such oneness as deep intercessors praying for the priests and the Church and the world. And when God gives us these guidelines to grow, to be more perfected as a community that some day that we will be an order. We have to follow that way of life that God has given to us in our prayer life, in our living as this special body of people that are asked by God to live this way to be intercessors praying for the priests, the Church and the world. 

end of excerpt from Response to God's Love

  

Excerpt from August 14, 2004 daily message

Messenger:        Most Sacred Heart of
                                Jesus let my Heart
                                be likened to thine.  

 

August 14, 2004 Talk from the Retreat continues

Messenger:  We want to say the consecration prayer to the Sacred Heart again and think about all the words in that prayer as we pray that. The mission that God has called us to, to help to renew the Church and the world.

   

Act of consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus 
and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

        “Lord Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock, I consecrate myself to Your most Sacred Heart. From Your pierced Heart the Church was born, the Church You have called me, as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates, to serve in a most special way. You reveal Your Heart as a symbol of Your love in all its aspects, including Your most special love for me, whom You have chosen as Your companion in this most important work. Help me to always love You in return. Help me to give myself entirely to You. Help me always to pour out my life in love of God and neighbor! Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in You! Amen.

 

August 14, 2004 Talk from the Retreat continues

Messenger:  That's what Fr. Carter would always talk about — the 3 loves. You know you got to have them. Love of God, love of one another and love of self. If you leave the love of God out and you just focus on love of one another and love of self you just lost the main thing, that power that's coming down from God. If all you think about is love of God and love of self and you say well I'm not going to end up working stuff out with people because they get in my way or I can't get along with them. That's why we're down here. We are down here to become more perfected in our ways of loving so that we are more liked to Him and we got to learn to get along. And we're all imperfect, that's the other thing, we're all imperfect. We all have little quirks and things and stuff that just end up coming out at different times and we keep going back to our source, our measuring stick which is Jesus our model, praying the rosary and knowing Him. That's why today is so important, I wish we had the Passion movie to watch, the Passion movie, but we can do that in our heart. We can do that with the screen to see God in His love for us.  

This is from Revelation — the Song of Victory.

  

Revelation 19: 5-7

     Then a voice came from the throne; it said, ‘Praise our God, you servants of his and those who fear him, small and great alike.’ And I heard what seemed to be the voices of a huge crowd, like the sound of the ocean or the great roar of thunder, answering, ‘Alleluia! The reign of the Lord our God Almighty has begun; let us be glad and joyful and give glory to God,...

    

August 14, 2004 Talk from the Retreat continues

Messenger:  And this is what I want to focus on because this is what Jesus said to focus on in this retreat. You know we sing this Lamb of God at Mass all the time. I love the Lamb of God. Because we are singing:

Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world,
    have mercy on us.
 Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world,
    have mercy on us.
 Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world,
    grant us peace.

That is such a powerful song. 

  

Revelation 19: 7-8

...because this is the time for the marriage of the Lamb. His bride is ready, and she has been able to dress herself in dazzling while linen, because her linen is made of the good deeds of the saints.’ 

    

August 14, 2004 Talk from the Retreat continues

Messenger:  The Pilgrim Church and God has called us in this Movement to help renew the Church and the world by giving ourselves as special intercessors praying for the Church that it will be the way that God wants it to be. That's why yesterday I could see so clear, it was just so evident, that one son that does not follow his vocation and the good that one priest can do. And then we have to realize that we have to do what God wants us to do, what that is, we don't want to do more or less, we want to do what God is telling us to do. To tell the world how wonderful the Church is and the priesthood because maybe that son that did not answer his calling to the priesthood didn't get enough prompting, whether it was at high school, college, parents, whatever it is. We want to pray that the institutions that teach our young are in the right place to foster that desire, to follow the vocation that God has called them to. 

 

Revelation 19: 9-10

The angel said, ‘Write this, "Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding feast of the Lamb," ’ and he added, ‘These words of God are true.’ Then I knelt at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, ‘Never do that: I am your fellow–servant...

 

Messenger:  And then the other Revelation that we all go over all the time and love that's in our souls.

 

Revelation 21: 1-3

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.

  

August 14, 2004 Talk from the Retreat continues

Messenger:  That's what we pray for, that there will be that oneness that the people of this earth will obey His commandments and recognize — God — as the King of their hearts. Amen.

  

Excerpt from August 14, 2004 daily message

Messenger:        WE ARE SPOUSE OF THE
                                LAMB.

                            Today let us gaze upon HIM.

                                The Lamb of God —

                            The One who paid the price for
                                our sins.

 

August 14, 2004 Talk from the Retreat continues

Messenger:  In the messages this week we talked about sacrifice and that the Jewish priests and pagan priests sacrificed the bullock or ram but Christ comes to us and Christ gives to us, Himself. He is the Lamb. 

    

Excerpt from August 12, 2004 message

Messenger:        A story 

                            A little boy went to school and
                                cheated –– the head of the
                                school wanted to expel
                                the little boy ––

                            The big brother came in and
                                said expel me and let
                                my little brother go,

 

August 14, 2004 Talk from the Retreat continues

Messenger:  And it's Christ Who is the sinless One, the Son of God comes and gives Himself on the cross for our sins. He died — for our sins, that we would have that sharing, in His life.

    

Excerpt from August 14, 2004 daily message

Messenger:        Grace flows to us through
                                the Church.

                            We share in His life.

                            Let us be transformed.

                            Let us focus on the love
                                of the Trinity —
                                how God dwells
                                so much in a special
                                way in the graced soul.

                            Let us think about our
                                Love for the Persons of
                                the Trinity.

                            Father,
                            Son and
                            Holy Spirit
 

end of excerpt from August 14, 2004 Talk from the Retreat

    

  

Excerpt from December 21, 1998

Jesus speaks: In the Shepherds of Christ Movement there must be this connection in the heart. All are united in love with one another. In a moment I can give you everything you need. I can rain money from the sky. America , you have made money your god.

I come to form the hearts in love. It was the consuming love in My Heart for souls that I felt when I gave Myself on the cross.

Do you have this consuming love for one another? You must be loving. You operate from your hearts. You operate as a body. You walk hand in hand.

A family that knows love will work to full potential. People wander, for they are hungry and not being fed. The devil has lured your children from the kitchen table to the things of the world. What has happened to the family meal?

You will reestablish relationships, intimately united to one another as a family, living in love, bearing with one another as the Father intended from the beginning. In the garden of Eden they were given such gifts, they were told to obey.

I want love. I will reward you with funds when you operate in love. You must grow to be likened to the family the Father wishes.

end of excerpt

    

  

Kingdom of God – some excerpts originally from the Mass Book

1.  

    We read from a spiritual journal: "We cannot have deep intimacy with Jesus if we only give him part of ourselves. We think we are holding on to things we need when in reality we are blocking that which we most desire deep within our hearts—profound union with Jesus. There is only one way to achieve this union. We must give Jesus what He wants. In this lies our true peace, and only in this."

Excerpt from Priestly Newsletter Issue 2, 1999 

2.  Messenger: Building the Kingdom is loving God and loving
    one another.

Isolation allows a person to stay locked in his or her imperfections. Relating to others according to God’s will helps us to grow to be more like Christ. We can find it very difficult at times to interact with others because the interaction is calling us to die to old behavior patterns which interfere with our relating to others as we should. It is through prayer and love, through God’s grace acting within us, that, in dying more and more to our imperfections, we will grow in greater oneness.

Excerpt from Priestly Newsletter Issue 2, 1999 

3.  Messenger: Building the Kingdom is walking hand and hand.

    
God intends us to walk hand in hand, interacting, and depending on one another. When we are hurt and bleeding because of interaction with others, many times we wish to close our arms and close the door to others. At these times let us look at Jesus on the cross, His arms outstretched. He continued to love even those who crucified Him. He did not close His arms. He hung, arms outstretched to the end.

Excerpt from Priestly Newsletter Issue 2, 1999 

4.  

We must keep our eyes on the goal. We must keep our arms outstretched in loving surrender to Jesus. Many times we are weary and are tempted not to so act. In loving interaction with others, our brothers and sisters help us hold our arms outstretched.

Excerpt from Priestly Newsletter Issue 2, 1999 

5.  

When we begin to think, "I don’t need you, it is Jesus and I, I can do it alone," we are closing our arms. We obviously need God to accomplish our God-given destiny, but it is not only God that we must love. In the normal progression of love, there must be healthy interaction with others. This is the way of Jesus. In love we help each other live according to the Father’s plan. We help each other keep our arms outstretched. We grow more and more in Christ’s ways as we learn to love. The more we die to our imperfect ways of loving, the more we merge toward oneness with each other in Christ Jesus, Our Lord and Master.

Excerpt from Priestly Newsletter Issue 2, 1999 

6.  

"I know, alas! I know only too well that I am weak and unstable. I know what temptation can do against the strongest virtue. I have seen the stars of heaven fall, and the pillars of the firmament; but that cannot frighten me. So long as I continue to hope, I shall be sheltered from all misfortune; and I am sure of hoping always, since I hope for this unwavering hopefulness.

Note:  21. St. Claude La Colombière, "An Act of Confidence in God", Apostleship of Prayer, Chicago Regional Office.

Excerpt from Priestly Newsletter Issue 2, 1999

7.  

"Finally, I am sure I cannot hope too much in you, and that I cannot receive less than I hoped for from you. So I hope that you will hold me safe on the steepest slopes, that you will sustain me against the most furious assaults, and that you will make my weakness triumph over my most fearful enemies. I hope that you will love me always, and that I too shall love you without ceasing. To carry my hope once for all as far as it can go, I hope from you to possess you, O my Creator, in time and in eternity. Amen."21

21. St. Claude La Colombière, "An Act of Confidence in God", Apostleship of Prayer, Chicago Regional Office.

Excerpt from Priestly Newsletter Issue 2, 1999 

8.  

He gave His last breath! He gave the last beat of His Heart for love of each one of us! How can we refuse Jesus who spread His arms on the cross and gave His life for you and for me? How can we not trust Him when He loved us so much that He allowed them to tear His flesh, to crown Him with piercing thorns, and, lastly, to hang Him on a cross? He endured all this for love of each of us, and that same love has prompted Him to still be with us in His Eucharistic presence-in the Mass and in the tabernacle. And we can at times take His Eucharistic presence so lightly!

Excerpt from Priestly Newsletter Issue 5, 1998 

    

  

I like this sentence too from Chapter 8 of Response to God's Love.

"Indeed, the Christian imperative reminds us that we are to walk life's path, not in isolation, but hand in hand with our fellow human beings." 

The dark nights will be over, the more Jesus' Movement spreads across the earth. It is a powerful force to have our hearts united in love in Their Hearts.

This is what Mary asked for at Fatima .

It is fire spreading across the earth as men join our Movement and unite their hearts in love as Jesus told me March 26, 1996 .

We always choose love.

We love more like Jesus loves. He died for all the souls. We love all people. We do not have to spend time with people that are bad for us but we must pray for them and love them in our hearts.

   

  

Excerpt from Response to God's Love

  

Chapter 8

 

The Christian Encounters Others and the World

...It is well to begin by observing a phenomenon of our culture concerning love: Many persons who choose marriage say they do so out of a desire to be loved. Notice, they say that they marry out of a desire to be loved, not to love. In fairness to these persons, perhaps we should presume that they realize they in turn must also offer love. Yet, is it not revealing that they explicitly mention as the reason for marrying a desire to be loved? Could there be a close correlation between this phenomenon and the extraordinarily high divorce rate that prevails in our culture? If it is common that both partners enter marriage more from a need to receive love than from a desire to give it, do we have to look further for the reason to explain why so many marriages are plagued with various degrees of unhappiness?...

  

  

December 18, 2004

(New Message)

 

Jesus speaks:   There are all these people from Adam and
                             Eve who have learned to live
                             with dysfunction and to
                             respond with survival tactics
                            
in their particular situation.          

                        People who are divorced are forced
                            
to live with a division that
                            
wounds the heart, pulling the
                            
children one way and then
                            
another. Because of situations
                            
of division, survival tactics
                            
can seem to be of the person
                            
involved, the norm, when
                            
in affect it must be analyzed
                            
why one must do something
                            
in a certain situation. While
                            
in others, other rules must
                            
be learned and followed
                            
to promote real unity.

  

 

                        The transference of problems
                            
from other situations and the
                            
interaction in relationships
                            
is much greater than you
                            
can imagine.  

                        When one has continual problems
                             with significant others over
                            
and over again and their answer
                             is to several significant others
                            
"I see what occurred much differently
                            
than you and you have the
                            
problem."

                       A woman engaged in 5 so called
                            
marriages was distraught in the
                            
5th marriage when she said, "They
                            
all did it the same way, and they
                            
were all wrong."  

                        She did not recognize the fact that
                            
she had the problem and she
                            
was the one that needed to change.  

                        Not one of the 5 would remain
                            
married to her because of
                            
her dysfunctional, habitual ways.                  

                        These are the ways that satan can
                             play on to block the work
                            
I want accomplished.  

                        Some people have so many red
                            
buttons or flags because of
                            
past wounds, and so much
                            
pride to go with it.
                            
They remain stuck and
                            
unable to engage in
                            
relationships of intimate
                            
nature almost totally.

 

  

                             Two people may want to get married
                   
     and live a life of happiness forever
                   
     after, but soon the problems begin with
                   
     the imperfections and the relationship
                   
     between man and woman.

  

    

December 18, 2004 message continues

Mary speaks:       There are so many divorces in the world
                        today. This can tell you how difficult it
                   
     is for a man and woman to get along.

   

 

   

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 your 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.

    
  

  

December 18, 2004 message continues  

Mary speaks:       There are so many relationships where the
                        husband or wife can dominate. Many women

                   
     today have fought to have their rightful
                   
     rights; Many men have tried so hard to dominate
                   
     women in inappropriate ways to be
                   
     over them.                        

                             The competition in the sports world can
                   
     add another dimension to the already major
                   
     problem of dominance, male over woman

   
                     women over women, men over men. The devil

                   
     has tried to keep me from acting in the lives
                   
     of my priests as their spiritual Mother. The
                   
     function of my Son's Newsletter is to help
                   
     all priests and people recognize me as
                   
     Mother of the Church and spiritual Mother
                   
     of all of my children.

    

    

December 18, 2004 message continues

Mary speaks:       Today with so many divorces wounded
                   
     hearts of men and women yield under law
                        to the split -- mom has the children with
                   
     her new husband or dad has taken them on
                   
     a two week trip over Christmas break.  

                             What seemed so difficult to work out
                   
     during the marriage between a husband
                   
     and wife can be a problem so heart
                   
     wounding and difficult after a divorce
                   
     when husbands or wives now take on
                   
     new partners and new children.

 

July 5, 2000

  

December 18, 2004 message continues

Mary speaks:      I am Mary, Mother of God and
                            
I give you the ten commandments --
                            
they are rules given from God for
                            
happy living rooted in Him.  

 

                        Today is the 4 year anniversary of your
                       
founder's death Fr. Carter.

   

 

December 18, 2004 message continues

Mary speaks:     No matter how one may think they know
                            
someone, they may be majorly surprised
                            
at someone, they thought they knew when
                            
they become married to them and live
                            
with them every day.  

                        People who choose a single life may have
                            
never engaged in any intimate relationship
                            
and come to a convent or community
                            
with very many dysfunctional ways and
                            
they begin interacting in these ways.  

                             One person in a community can create
                   
     such tension that it is felt by all who
                   
     come to that place. The devil works through
                   
     one person who has dysfunction to block
                   
     unity and fruitful work from being
  
                      accomplished.
   

Jesus speaks:         In giving this Movement Shepherds of
                   
     Christ -- I give you My Movement to help
                   
     those in the mystical body to be more
                   
     united as they pledge allegiance so
                   
     deeply in their hearts to the pope as
                   
     head vicar of the Catholic Church --  

                             I am the Head of My Church. I am
                   
     Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the Flock. I
                   
     give you My Church. My Church is My
                   
     bride and I love her. I give you the Holy
                   
     Father as Chief Vicar of the Church.
 

                             Let's talk about chairs --
                            
Who sits on the chair in My churches?
                            
Is the priest the head and it is
                             
     his little domain?  

                             Does he bend the rules of the Holy
                             
     Father to please the people?  

                             Does the individual in charge of the
                             
     individual church sit on
                             
     My throne there or does he
                             
     lead people to the Eucharist?
                             
     I am in the tabernacle of My
                             
     churches, but some priests hide the
                             
     tabernacle in the closet.
     


     

                        Some priests may run a little dynasty
                            
and they see themselves as the
                            
head.  

                        All in the churches should recognize
                            
that they are under the pope and
                            
ultimately -- I am the head of
                            
My churches.  

                        Rules given by Me and the pope are
                            
to be followed.  

                        The devil has attached authority -- the
                            
devil tried to discredit the priests --
                            
in discussing the priests here I do
                            
not speak to discredit, but to help
                            
My priests see how important structure is.  

                        Power comes from God.  

                        When one priest singly tries to run
                            
a little domain separating himself from
                            
Me and not following the instruction of the pope 
                            
he has affected himself in a way
                            
he will not receive the great
                            
help he can have from those
                            
over him in a structure I
                            
have given to you.  

                        Look at this structure, God puts
                            
dad and mom over the children.
                            
Here is a house where dad and mom are good
                            
parents living to try to follow God's will.  

                        At 14, a young boy may be very willful and
                            
does his own will -- he hurts
                            
himself -- he would receive special
                            
blessings from Me for obeying
                            
his parents.  

                        The devil has attacked the institutions
                            
from weak leaders who give into
                            
pride to want to be the top --
                            
when in fact they are not -- they
                            
are all under God.  

                        Look at the family -- the devil has attacked
                            
authority in the family.  

                        Look at some individual parishes and
                            
schools -- Is the Catholic tradition
                            
paramount?  

                        Is My Mother recognized as spiritual
                            
Mother of all?  

                        Structure -- the devil attacks structure --
                            
the devil wants people doing
                            
their own will, performing
                            
good ideas that may not necessarily
                            
be God's will. 

     

    

February 13, 1997

Talk given by Father Edward J. Carter, S.J.
Founder of Shepherds of Christ Ministries

Talk given February 13, 1997 National Conference of Shepherds of Christ, held at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center, Norwood, Ohio.

    Before we begin the rosary, I’d like to say a few words about the great importance of these days on the 13th of each month. Before Our Lord asked me to begin the Shepherds of Christ Ministries, the 1st dimension of that ministries was given to me on May the 31st, 1994. But before Our Lord asked me to start the ministries, I had been given a great devotion to Our Lady of Fatima. And I knew that everything concerning recent Marian apparitions centered around the Fatima message. The Fatima message is key to the peace of the world, as Our Lady of Fatima has told us. So because I had been given a great devotion to Our Lady of Fatima, it was no surprise to me when Our Lord told me, and through me the whole Movement, the great connection that there would be between Shepherds of Christ Ministries and helping to bring the Fatima message to conclusion. I’ll expand more upon that in my talk this afternoon. But here and now I’d like to read just a part of the message I received on October the 13th, 1994, when Our Lord called the full Ministries into existence. It had begun May 31st , some five or six months previous to that. But really October the 13th, 1994, marks the real birth, the complete birth of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. And part of the message I received on that day reads as follows:

"I am giving you this message on this day, the 77th anniversary of the great apparition at Fatima, because of the close connection between the Shepherds of Christ Movement and the Fatima message. The Fatima message is centered in devotion to My Heart and My Mother’s Heart, especially in consecration to Our Hearts. Shepherds of Christ Ministries is also centered in devotion to Our Hearts. I will use Shepherds of Christ Ministries as a great instrument in helping to bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the Reign of My Sacred Heart. Today then, October the 13th, 1994, the 77th anniversary of the great apparition at Fatima, marks the birth of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I pour forth the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, the Chief Shepherd of the Flock."

    The calling of Our Lord to Shepherds of Christ to be present if possible at these meetings on the 13th of each month, and if they cannot be present physically, to be present in spirit with us then comes as no surprise. It’s merely another unfolding in the history of the Shepherds of Christ Movement and in the Fatima message.

    These 13th of the months meetings are extremely important. They are great instruments which Our Lord and Our Lady are using to help bring to completion the Fatima message, which will result in that great era of peace, which Our Lady of Fatima promised eventually would come to the world.

    So I ask you to take these meetings on the 13th of the month with the utmost seriousness, gratitude, thanksgiving, joy that Our Lord, for His own reasons has chosen Shepherds of Christ, the members thereof, the whole Ministries to play such a great part in the completion of the Fatima message. It comes as no surprise either that Our Lord gives special messages during the rosary on the meeting of the 13th, just as Our Lady of Fatima gave messages to the three visionaries at Fatima in 1917, from May through October. So at this stage of the Fatima message’s unfolding, it is no surprise that they continue, and in a new way and a new phase of the Fatima plan, give us these very special messages on the 13th. They are meant not only for us here present, they are meant for all members of the Movement, and eventually for the whole world. All these messages, all these rosaries on the 13th, eventually go onto our Internet with its world-wide audience.

    So please, be very grateful to God for the messages He gives us during the rosary. Not everything which Rita says is a message. I think you’ll be able to distinguish when she’s receiving a message from Our Lord or from Our Lady, and when she is speaking from her own heart. Sometimes the transition is very quick and you may miss it, but there are both ways in which meditations are given on the decades: in strict locutions or messages, and then from Rita’s meditations or reflections herself.

(After the Rosary)

    I wish to thank everybody who made the effort to be here with us, especially those people who had to travel from out of town. I’m sure the Lord has blessed you already and will continue to do so for your effort to be here. These are extremely important meetings on the 13th of the month. Our Lord has, Himself, instructed us in His great love and mercy for us and the whole world to have them. From these meetings, the messages of Our Lord, the previous message given at Fatima, go out to the whole world...

    I sort of left off when I introduced the rosary by reading the rest, or at least a good part of the rest, of that message which I, myself, received on October the 13th, 1994, when Our Lord called the full Shepherds of Christ Ministries into existence.

"My beloved priest-companion, today I come to you with another mission."

    He had already asked me on May the 31st of 1994 to start the priestly newsletter and then shortly after that to start the prayer chapters.

    "I’m asking you to establish Shepherds of Christ Ministries. At My request you have already begun the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the prayer chapters, Shepherds of Christ Associates...

    "I am giving you this message on this day, the 77th Anniversary of the Great Apparition at Fatima, because of the close connection between the Shepherds of Christ movement and the Fatima message. The Fatima message is centered in devotion to My Heart and My Mother’s Heart, especially in consecration to Our Hearts. Shepherds of Christ Ministries is also centered in devotion to Our Hearts. I will use Shepherds of Christ Ministries as a great instrument in helping to bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. When this occurs, My Church and the world will be experiencing the great era of peace promised by My Mother at Fatima.

    "Today, then, October 13, 1994, the 77th Anniversary of the Great Apparition at Fatima, marks the birth of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I pour forth the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock."

    So (this is) one of the most important messages given in the whole history of our Movement, and I think you can see why. Not only was Our Lord calling the Ministries into full bloom with this message, but He was making that great connection between Shepherds of Christ and the Fatima message.

    You see how He says that both the Fatima message and Shepherds of Christ is centered in devotion, and especially in consecration, to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

    So in my moments here before you this afternoon, I wish to speak a bit about this consecration.

    I’ll start off by reading a message of Our Lord and from "Tell My People" which deals with this consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

    "My beloved friend, tell My people that I desire all to consecrate themselves to My Sacred Heart and to Mary’s Immaculate Heart. Tell them not to just recite words in making the Act of Consecration, but to realize what they are saying. Consecration to Our Hearts means a total gift of self. That means handing over everything to Me and My Mother. Consecration means a willingness to surrender completely to Me. In Baptism, one is consecrated to Father, Son and Holy Spirit. But how many fail to live out their consecration? I extend to all the invitation to renew this Baptismal consecration through consecration to My Heart and to My Mother’s Heart.

    "My beloved companion, I have taught you what this consecration means. I have given you great peace, joy and happiness because you have made this consecration. I have taught you that you are to renew this act of consecration each day. I constantly remind you that you are to pray each day for the grace to more and more live the consecration. I have taught you that your consecration to Me and My Mother means that you constantly surrender yourself to Us and to Our care. I have taught you that the more you surrender yourself to Me, the more I live in you, and through you and for you. I have taught you that My great love for you longs to draw you more deeply into My Heart. I have shown you that I wish your Mother Mary to place you there within My Heart, and that the more you dwell within her Heart, the more deeply she places you within My Heart. Dwelling within Our Hearts, the Holy Spirit fashions you more and more in My likeness. The Father thus looks upon you with greater favor and takes you more closely to Himself.

"Tell My people all these wondrous truths. I am Lord and Master and I desire all to listen to My words. (end of message)"

    And what beautiful words those are, which Christ gives all, to us all regarding the consecration to His Heart and Mary’s Heart.

    I want to - after that message of Jesus telling us what consecration involves, I wish to single out a few aspects of the consecration, what it includes. One aspect of our consecration and especially the consecration which Our Lord has given us for Shepherds of Christ, one aspect of our consecration to Their Hearts is to realize that we are apostles and that we are called to go out into the world as we have heard in the rosary today, and other times to be the apostles of His love, of His love and His Mother’s love, and thus to help bring about that great era of peace promised by Our Lord, Our Lady of Fatima in which love will just dominate. That’s what it means when Our Lady says, "In the end," she says, "my Immaculate Heart will triumph." And along with that triumph of her Immaculate Heart will occur the Reign of the Sacred Heart. The Reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of the Immaculate Heart simply is a reign of love, a triumph of love and in that era there will be a type of love existent in the hearts of the members of the human family never known before. We will all be so united in love to the Father and the Holy Spirit through the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. And not only with Them, but with each other. What a glorious era we have to look forward to.

    We are apostles. More and more as the Movement has gone on, Jesus is letting us know that, yes, we are supposed to pray. This is one of our primary duties in the chapters and elsewhere, to pray for priests and all others. But more and more He is telling us that now is the time to start to more and more move out from our chapters and to be apostles of His love, to help spread the Movement, to help spread the consecrations in the schools through the consecration cards, the Rosary Aves, both of which have the Imprimatur of the Cincinnati Archdiocese, to help spread all our materials, all our books and all the various rosaries, the rosary tapes. And you are called to do that.

    In the beginning of the Movement, it was a relatively few people who were carrying the burden and carrying the Ministry on. We have entered a great new episode of the Movement, principally in that episode, principally centers itself around these meetings of the 13th. More and more people are realizing as they hear more and more the messages, more and more people in the Movement are hearing that Jesus is calling each one of us to be apostles of the Movement, to spread the Movement, to help implement the various ministries in all ways possible, to help spread the movement by starting new prayer chapters. Just think if we have something like, I guess, 2500-3000 members in the chapters and the Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Movement here in this country and throughout the world-most of those, thus far, in this country.

    But just think if each person would take it upon himself or herself to go all out to get one more new chapter formed. That’s not impossible, I don’t think that’s asking something heroic. That would double our chapters; that would double our prayer power. And so much of the Movement, the success of it, depends upon the prayer power coming out of the chapters and the Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Movement. So He’s calling all of us; and how admirably so many in the Movement are answering. I wish to single out-just because all of you know about the Florida apparition-four or five, six, I don’t know how many now of our members from Rita’s core group have gone down to the apparition site. One of our main members, Tom A., has a home there at St. Petersburg, and Clearwater is just a short distance from there. And they’ve been going down and staying in his house, and each day going over to the apparition site and handing out our materials, especially the rosary message tape, but other materials also. This is what Our Lord, Our Lady has asked us to do. And they’ve had phenomenal success. We can’t keep enough materials down there. They just, the people are just so eager for it. But this is what. . .and they do it on their own time, they drive down, some of them spend three or four days, some a week and they come back. But what a marvelous example of their answering the call to the apostleship to which Jesus calls them in the Movement. And they’re doing just a tremendous amount of good.

    And by the way when I’m talking and as long as I’m talking about Florida I might read you part of that message of Our Lady. You have read it, no doubt if you’d gotten a copy of the picture with the message on the back. But for my own purposes I want to read that here and now. So Mary tells us, this is the message which Rita received on December the 19th:

Mary speaks: 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 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.

    When Rita got that message and when she gave it to me, both of us for a number of days thought that her number of apparitions was simply decreasing, but we both came to the conclusion; well Rita came to the conclusion and I followed after her, in agreement with her conclusion, Mary says, "I do not appear as I once appeared to you." She was saying apparently that, "I’m appearing to you in this new way, where the whole world can see me."

    So many others’ apparition sites have had their believers of course, but many, many people throughout the world have doubted all this talk about the various apparition sites of Mary. She says, "I do not appear as I once appeared to you." She is appearing on a bank for the whole world to see.

Mary continues:

    "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."

    That’s one of the main things our apostles down in Florida are doing, handing out the tapes with this message.

Mary continues:

    "Please circulate this tape now. Give it to as many people as you can. I am Mary, your Mother. Please circulate my Rosary Book."

    She’s referring to a book which Shepherds of Christ Publications came out right around Christmas time. Hopefully all of you have received it in the mail, Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, as given to Rita. Now here’s the point I want to make here and now. Notice how she links up the apparition site with the circulation of her Rosary Book, and we are circulating the book there. But to me, there’s a very great phenomenon connected with the colors on the window, bank windows and the Rosary Book. And Rita herself pointed this out to me. Now this cover on this book-it was designed by Hal K. weeks and even months before the apparition of Our Lady on the bank in Florida. When did you start to design that Hal? (question asked to Harold K.) Almost, two years ago. And the colors were already selected months ago, right? Well if you’ll take the picture of the bank of the apparition of the bank on Florida, and this Rosary Book, you will notice that the colors are the same. To me, that’s a miraculous confirmation of the fact that Our Lady is connecting the apparition site on the bank in Florida with the Shepherds of Christ Ministries in a special way with the rosaries. It’s just phenomenal. You can check the colors out one by one. They’re a little bit brighter on the book, but because of the photography involved I think you can see how they wouldn’t be quite as bright on this. But check out the colors. They’re the same on the Rosary Book and on this. And these colors, as I say, were picked by Hal months and months before the apparition. You can take it for what you want, but for me it’s a miraculous confirmation of this message, that Our Lady chose those same colors which are on the front of her Rosary Book, to show the same colors relative to her apparition there on the bank in Florida.

    Therefore, our Florida apostles are one of the many examples I could point out to you of how people in the Movement are more and more taking up the challenge, the invitation of Jesus and Mary to spread this Movement throughout the world. They have chosen the Shepherds of Christ Movement as a great instrument to help bring about the Fatima message. How privileged we are to be part of it, to be called to it. I believe, I’ve told you this before, at least some of you have heard me, I think this Movement is one of the greatest in the history of the Church. And I think history itself will bear that out. So how precious a gift each of us has been given by Our Lord in calling us to be members of this Movement.

    Therefore, a very important aspect of our consecration to Their Hearts is to be apostles, to help spread all the ministries. Another aspect of our consecration is the idea of union. I think we’re all very well aware how the consecration unites us to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, and through Them to the Father and the Holy Spirit. But perhaps we don’t think often enough of that how it unites us with one another, in the Movement, in the Church, throughout the whole world. You cannot grow in union with God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit and Mary, without growing in union with all your neighbors. And this is the tough part. It’s relatively easy to love Father, Son and Holy Spirit and Mary, isn’t it? Three Persons in One God infinitely perfect and Mary a human person, perfect, free from all sin. It’s easy to love the Triune Persons and Mary, relatively speaking. But it’s not all that easy to love each other all the time, isn’t it? And yet that’s what Jesus calls us to. Jesus literally died for each and every person. And no matter how unattractive a person is in their behavior, Jesus still died for that person. If He loved that person enough to die for that person, then certainly we have to love them, him or her, and especially within the Movement. Satan is violently attacking us, he will always try to cause division in the Movement. But if we are going to be examples - and we are called to that, to be examples to the whole Church and the whole world of what it’s going to be like in the new era, when we all exist in such great loving union with each other in Christ. We are the forerunners of that. We’re helping to prepare the way for that for the whole Church, for the whole world. Not only us, but we have been given a special mission for that. So we have to be united in love with each other, if we have differences, we work them out in love and in peace. We work them out in love and in peace. In one of the Blue Books, Jesus says, "The glass is either half-empty or it’s half-full." I look at my neighbor, whether he or she is in the Movement or outside of it. I can either look at the half-empty part of the glass or the half-full part. I can either look at that person’s faults and concentrate on them, or I can concentrate on the great goodness which is inherently theirs. If they are in the state of sanctifying grace, their soul is magnificently beautiful, despite the blemishes of their failings of their sins. When I look at a person, do I look at the half-empty part or the half-full part?

    Everyday I ask you to pray for a growing unity in the Movement. What Our Lord has allowed us to accomplish so far in less than three years is just miraculous, I think it’s just miraculous. The sign becomes ever and ever greater that He started this Movement, not me. I was just the instrument which He chose to head it up. He has given me so many beautiful people to help me do the Movement and that includes all of you. He has given you so many beautiful companions in the Movement. Let us concentrate on that part of it. This is the only way we’re going to be models to the rest of the Church and the world, of the profound union that Our Lord calls us to, not only with Himself, but with each other.

    Strength for all this, day after day, it’s not easy to live this way, is it? But as I said in my homily, the great strength we have for that is the Eucharist. The power of the Eucharist is much greater than your faults or my faults or the faults of others in the Movement that surround you, or the faults of others in your parish, or the rest of the Church and the world. He can give you the strength to arise above your own faults and the faults of others around you, and march forward in the most positive way towards this great new era. Oh what a gift the Eucharist is.

    St. Julian Eymard, the founder of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers, who gave us such beautiful writings on the Eucharist, in one of his writings on the Eucharist he says:

    "It is true also that the world does all in its power to prevent us from loving Jesus in the most Blessed Sacrament with a real and practical love, to prevent us from visiting Him and cripple the effects of His love. This world engrosses the attention of souls; it finds and enslaves them with external occupations in order to deter them from dwelling too long on the love of Jesus. It even fights directly against this practical love and represents it as optional, as practicable at most only in a convent. And the devil wages incessant warfare on our love for Jesus in the most Blessed Sacrament. He knows that Jesus is there, living and substantially present; that by Himself He is drawing souls and taking direct possession of them. The devil tries to efface the thought of the Eucharist in us, and the good impression made by it; for in his mind, that should decide the issue of the struggle." (That is if we give in to Jesus’ desire to possess us in the Eucharist.) "And yet God is all love. This gentle Savior pleads with us from the Host: "Love Me as I have loved you; abide in My love! I came to cast the fire of love on the earth, and My most ardent desire is that it should set your hearts on fire." 1

1St. Peter Eymard, "The Most Blessed Sacrament Is Not Loved!," as in The Treasury of Catholic Wisdom, Fr. John Hardon, S.J., ed.; Ignatius Press, p. 384.

    Union amongst ourselves through our union with Jesus and Mary and Father and Holy Spirit. Each of you is so precious to Jesus. He has given each of you a very, very, very special gift, precious gift, in calling you to be involved in this Movement. Very early on in the Movement, it was July 31st of 1994, on the Feast of St. Ignatius, He often gives me very important messages on key feasts, and the Feast of St. Ignatius is a feast for Jesuits, Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits. And He told me in that message that He would give great, great, great graces to those who join the Movement, and hope I’m sure, all of you who have been in the Movement have experienced those great graces. In appreciation for the great graces Jesus has given you in the Movement, I ask you, with great joy and a great sense of responsibility and a great sense of privilege, to do what you can to implement the ministries of the Movement. No one else can do your role, can carry out your part. You are preciously unique, no one exists like you now, no one ever has, no one ever will. It’s you alone who can give Jesus the opportunity to do what He wants through your humanity to help spread the Movement. To the extent that you answer Jesus and give yourselves to Him, and work as time and energy permits, as your other duties permit to help spread the ministries, to that extent you give Him an opportunity which no one else can give Him, and to the extent that you hold back, to this extent He loses this opportunity which no one else can give Him.

    A precious Savior who has done so much to each of us. Certainly He deserves our full loving response. As I kneel before the crucifix each day, either before a actual crucifix or one in my mind, let us ask ourselves those questions posed to us by Ignatius Loyola, "What have I done for Christ?" "What am I now doing for Christ?" "What ought I to do for Christ?"

end of February 13, 1997 talk by Fr. Carter

  

      

December 18, 2004 message continues

Jesus speaks:   I give you My vision.
                   
       I call you to oneness.
                   
       I call you to be as I spoke of in John.

  

John 17: 21-23

May they all be one,
just as, Father, you are in me
and I am in you,
so that they also may be in us,
so that the world may believe
it was you who sent me.
I have given them the glory
you gave to me,
that they may be one as we are one.
With me in them and you in me,
may they be so perfected in unity
that the world will recognise
that it was you who sent me
and that you have loved them
as you have loved me.

 

December 18, 2004 message continues

Jesus speaks:   Many times the devil works on people's egos to try to get
                            
them to do what they want against
                            
God's will and discredit authority.  

                        Power comes from God.  

                        When you dwell in Our Hearts and live
                            
according to God's will in love
                            
you will please the Father.  

                        So many today give into the temptation
                            
of satan to want to be the head --
                            
he appeals to the pride

  

Genesis 3: 4-5  

...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.’

    

December 18, 2004 message continues

Jesus speaks:       he appeals to fame
                            
he appeals to riches

 

   

Excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, by Louis J. Puhl, S.J.
 

136. THE FOURTH DAY

        A MEDITATION ON TWO STANDARDS

The one of Christ, our supreme leader and lord,
the other of Lucifer, the deadly enemy of our
human nature

PRAYER.   The usual preparatory prayer.

137. FIRST PRELUDE.   This is the history. Here it will be that Christ calls and wants all beneath His standard, and Lucifer, on the other hand, wants all under his.

138. SECOND PRELUDE.   This is a mental representation of the place. It will be here to see a great plain, comprising the whole region about Jerusalem, where the sovereign Commander-in-Chief of all the good is Christ our Lord; and another plain about the region of Babylon, where the chief of the enemy is Lucifer.

139. THIRD PRELUDE.   This is to ask for what I desire. Here it will be to ask for a knowledge of the deceits of the rebel chief and help to guard myself against them; and also to ask for a knowledge of the true life exemplified in the sovereign and true Commander, and the grace to imitate Him.
   

FIRST PART

THE STANDARD OF SATAN

140. FIRST POINT.   Imagine you see the chief of all the enemy in the vast plain about Babylon, seated on a great throne of fire and smoke, his appearance inspiring horror and terror.

141. SECOND POINT.   Consider how he summons innumerable demons, and scatters them, some to one city and some to another, throughout the whole world, so that no province, no place, no state of life, no individual is overlooked.

142. THIRD POINT.   Consider the address he makes to them, how he goads them on to lay snares for men and bind them with chains. First they are to tempt them to covet riches (as Satan himself is accustomed to do in most cases) that they may the more easily attain the empty honors of this world, and then come to overweening pride.

   The first step, then, will be riches, the second honor, the third pride. From these three steps the evil one leads to all other vices.
   

SECOND PART

THE STANDARD OF CHRIST

143.   In a similar way, we are to picture to ourselves the sovereign and true Commander, Christ our Lord.

144. FIRST POINT.   Consider Christ our Lord, standing in a lowly place in a great plain about the region of Jerusalem, His appearance beautiful and attractive.

145. SECOND POINT.   Consider how the Lord of all the world chooses so many persons, apostles, disciples, etc., and sends them throughout the whole world to spread His sacred doctrine among all men, no matter what their state or condition.

146. THIRD POINT.   . . .
   

end of excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

   
 

December 18, 2004 message continues

Jesus speaks:   The attitude of the heart is paramount --
                            
are things done for selfish promotion?
                            
are things done to serve the Divine
                            
God and Master?

  

    

From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius,
by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p. 12

23. FIRST PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION

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

    

"What have I done for Christ?" 

"What am I now doing for Christ?" 

"What ought I to do for Christ?"

    

December 18, 2004 message continues

Jesus speaks:   A person can only engage in intimate
                            
relationships truly in depth with God and with
                            
others if he is willing to look deeply
                            
at his faults and pray for grace to
                            
change.  

                        Picture yourself as a box with very
                            
many protrusions sticking out
                            
as pointing triangles.  

                        When one can unite smoothly with others
                            
they can join like two rooms and begin
                            
removing the center wall to some
                            
degree so you can come in and go
                            
out -- still separate but capable
                            
of touching in heart and soul in
                            
deep oneness.  

                        At times problems may occur when you
                            
feel because of your human weaknesses
                            
and lack of communication to be unable
                            
to unite and the wall can feel to be between
                            
you thick and dark, but with prayer and
                            
understanding and love -- communication
                            
brings about an exchange that will
                            
soon facilitate a reunion of spirits
                            
and love and the relationship becomes
                            
stronger rooted in Me.  

                             In relationships where there are
                   
     grave differences people may unite
                   
     again, but the bitterness is not
                   
     dissolved and the act of the will to
                   
     forgive not there and soon the least little
                   
     difference cause a bigger wall and then
                   
     a bigger wall until finally the pain is
                   
     so great the person feels compelled to
                   
     disunite and go away permanently.  

                             Two things must be noted -- satan
                        can bring up hurt memories and feelings
                   
     from past relationships of childhood
                   
     or other intimate relationships (past
                   
     marriages etc.) and a person can
                   
     transfer all their pain on an
                   
     innocent other, just because they
                   
     have a bag of pain they carry like
                   
     their hand and foot -- they are always
                   
     looking for someone to blame for
                   
     their pain, a scapegoat and they
                   
     punish and distort truth because
                   
     they are unhappy inside.  

                        Secondly – A person may really have pain because of
                             an intimate other and the lack of communication seems to
                             make it almost unbearable
                             when there is no change and constant
                             habitual ways that offer no solutions
                             to settling conflict, but only to
                             settle for some hurtful ways of
                             the partner who does not recognize
                             their problem.  

                        In case one – the person has given
                             into memories of the past and
                             made himself a victim blaming
                             his hurt on an innocent other.  

                        In case two – the person honestly
                             has been hurt in this present
                             relationship and the other is
                             unwilling to change his hurtful
                             ways.  

                        One must be very careful of satan’s tactics
                             in case one to apply pressure to
                             a situation that is really not a problem
                             but bad memories projected on an
                             innocent partner now,
                             satan works in trying
                             to trick someone to flee a situation -
                             Once a person gives into the devil to flee -
                             where do they go -
                             if it was God’s will they stay.  

                             Mary was head of the bank. She was a fair
                   
     and friendly employer. Men under her
                   
     that were wounded often misused her
                   
     kind nature -- they tried to demand more
                   
     attention, which was inappropriate to the bank
                   
     relationship, they expected because
                        she smiled at them and treated them
                   
     with respect that she should give more.  

                             Some people are always look for
                   
     anyone in an authority position to be
                   
     kind to them and then they think they
                   
     can go in the door that makes them a
                   
     partner and they become angry and punishing
                   
     when they are not recognized as equal and not in charge.

                        People that are wounded and not finding their
                   
     help in Me, God, keep looking for
                   
     that person that will be in authority
                   
     that will take the place in their
                   
     memory of their harsh father or harsh
                   
     mother.  

                             As long as they keep looking for that
                   
     door and when they find any door and go
                   
     in -- they won't leave -- they want
                   
     all their emotional trauma worked
                   
     out here and now because someone
                   
     smiled at them.  

                             Two singers were to do a duet. Tom
                   
     took over, set the mike for him louder
                   
     and tried to block out the other singer.  

                        Is this working together?  

                             People who see only themselves --
                            
People who spend their lives trying
                             
     to realize they, themselves, are okay
                             
     in every situation -- never
                             
     get to seeing the wider vision.
                        They are always working out wounded relationships
                             instead of working, doing regular work that
                             produces things.  

                        I have given you these messages.

    

Given to Father Carter
on the Feast of St. Ignatius

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)

end of July 31, 1994 message given to Fr. Carter

    
  

October 13, 1994

The Birth of the Full Ministries
of the Shepherds of Christ

    "I wish to share with you part of a message which Jesus gave us on October 13, 1994. The message tells us about the expansion of the Shepherds of Christ movement:

    'My beloved priest-companion, today I come to you with another mission. I am asking you to establish Shepherds of Christ Ministries. At My request you have already begun the priestly newsletter, "Shepherds of Christ", and the prayer chapters, Shepherds of Christ Associates...

    'I am giving you this message on this day, the 77th Anniversary of the Great Apparition at Fatima, because of the close connection between the Shepherds of Christ movement and the Fatima message. The Fatima message is centered in devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart, especially in consecration to Our Hearts. Shepherds of Christ Ministries is also centered in devotion to Our Hearts. I will use Shepherds of Christ Ministries as a great instrument in helping to bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. When this occurs, My Church and the world will be experiencing the great era of peace promised by My Mother at Fatima.

    'Today, then, October 13, 1994, the 77th Anniversary of the Great Apparition at Fatima, marks the birth of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I pour forth the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock.'

end of October 13, 1994 message given to Fr. Carter

    
  

Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus

My dear fellow Associate Members,

Jesus is calling special apostles to join a new division of the Shepherds of Christ Movement. Here is a message from Jesus given to Father Carter:

    My beloved priest-companion, I am requesting that a new prayer movement be started under the direction of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I am asking for volunteers who are willing to pray before the Blessed Sacrament for one hour, twice-weekly. Members of the Shepherds of Christ prayer chapters, as well as others, are to be invited to join this movement.

    These apostles are to pray for the intentions I am giving you. For part of the hour they are to use the prayers of the Shepherds of Christ Associates Handbook. They may spend the rest of the hour as they so choose.

    I will use this new prayer movement within My Shepherds of Christ Ministries in a powerful way to help in the renewal of My Church and the world. I will give great graces to those who join this movement. The name, Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, is to be given to this movement.

    I am inviting My beloved Rita Ring to be coordinator for this activity.

    I pour out the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock.

    This is indeed a special calling for us to unite in one heart with His Eucharistic Heart and pray for the following intentions:

  1. For the spread of the devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary culminating in the reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of the Immaculate Heart.
  2. For the Pope.
  3. For all bishops of the world.
  4. For all priests.
  5. For all sisters and brothers in the religious life.
  6. For all members of the Shepherds of Christ Movement, and for the spread of this movement to the world.
  7. For all members of the Catholic Church.
  8. For all members of the human family.
  9. For all souls in purgatory.

end of Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart message

 

   

December 18, 2004 message continues

Jesus speaks:   I have told you the purpose of the prayers
                            
on the 17th and 18th --  

                        It is about My Movement
                   
     It is about Me delivering this message --  

                        The Father wants recompense through your
                            
prayers and singing for knocking off
                            
Mary's head --  

                        Tell Him you are sorry
                   
     Tell Him thanks for the gifts you
                            
have been given.  

     Spread the Blue Book writings --
                   
I gave you the site in Florida
                   
to spread these messages to
                   
the world.  

                        Mary appeared to spread
                            
these messages.  

                        Mary wants you to spread
                            
My Rosary Books.

  

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 message

  

December 18, 2004 message continues

Jesus speaks:   God the Father wants the
                            
live DVD and Nursing
                            
Home Videos spread.

      
       

      

From December 3, 2004

Messenger:     My dear friends

    Today the Feast of St. Xavier,
First Friday, Jesus appeared to me
as the King on His Throne at the
Cathedral where He told me to go
to Church.  


  

    On December 5, 1996 - 
8 years ago Jesus appeared
to me at the point of death His
mouth moving, He was in excruciating
pain, I cried and could hardly stand
it.

From a previous daily message:

I saw Him at the point of death on the cross 
December 5, 1996, after Mary appeared 500 times.

He hung, all battered, greatly weakened. His mouth moved very clearly. It seems that a man in His condition could not move His mouth to that extent.

Later in the rosary that night, He gave messages and said: "No one was listening." 

end of excerpt
  

    Today the Feast of St. Xavier,
First Friday, Jesus appeared to me
as the King on His Throne at the
Cathedral where He told me to go
to Church. 

   He was smiling and His
mouth moved and moved and moved.
He looked happy and the vision was
all aglow. He gave me a message to sit
in the first pew and He appeared
and talked about 20 minutes, He
was smiling.

        May God bless you in this
most beautiful season. 

With lots of love and thanks,

                                Rita

        

   

 

 


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