Shepherds of Christ Daily Writing

December 2, 2025

November 29th Holy Spirit Novena Scripture selection is Day 9 Period II.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries for November 29th are Sorrowful.

Dear Father united to Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present, celebrated around the world, in the Holy Spirit. We offer up all we do united to the Mass. We unite in one mind and one heart as members of the mystical body of Christ, with Christ our head in the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary, through the powerful intercession of Mary with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory, and we beg for the saving grace, for our country, the United States. Please help us. We further pray for unity to always do the will of God in love. We spread the Blood of Jesus on the leaders and people of the United States and cast the devil into hell. We consecrate our country to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart and all our dioceses, and beg for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. God help us. We pray for our families, the priests, the Church and the world. In the Name of Jesus please hear us, we pray. We pray for our president and leaders. We pray that we are united as one nation under God to work together in love as God wants.

       

            Morning Offering

    Dear Father,
    I offer up all I do all day united to Jesus
    in the Mass, in the Holy Spirit, through
    the powerful intercession of Mary, our
    spiritual Mother, with all the angels and
    saints, and the souls in purgatory, for
    the priest, the Church, and the world.

    We love You God so much.
    We thank You and adore You and
    petition You for our needs. Amen.       

 

      September 21, 2025

Prayer of Love to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

Most Sacred, beautiful Heart of Jesus, I trust in Thee.

Dear Father thank you for the precious love You have given me, all the years of my life.

I unite to You, Oh Holy Spirit, fill me with Your light and Your truth.

I see You, Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Your Heart is on fire for me, I love You so much, Jesus.

Dear Immaculate Heart of Mary, my Mother, please give me through your powerful intercession the motherly love I need to be an instrument in this world to answer that call you have asked for, to help the souls that need my prayers.

I offer up my sacrifices united to the Mass for the Grace to pray for the precious souls all over the world that need prayers today because of their hardened hearts, that refuse to turn from the evil they hold onto and live in the way Jesus shows us.

Dear Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I pray for the grace to help me in the Shepherds of Christ to be able to do what I have been called to do in Your Movement.

Please cast the devil into hell away from me and others in this mission, You have called in trying to accomplish what I have been called to do to help reach the souls You died for and to help these souls on this journey to one day go to heaven.

We have been called to love and adore and worship You, my Savior.
Oh Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, You are the Son of God, You are all good and loving, and worthy of my love, please spread Your Blood on me and this mission, You have called me to.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus,
You are all loving and worthy of my love.I love You with all my heart.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I consecrate my heart to Your most Sacred Heart.
My heart is overwhelmed in love of Thee.

Most Holy Immaculate Mary, I give you my heart now and ask you to protect me in your pure and Immaculate Heart.

Holy Spirit infuse into my intellect wisdom, knowledge and counsel. Fill me with the vision to see through the eyes of God, to love with the Heart of Jesus and to know and love as You direct me in the Fathers will. Help me to co-operate with this grace to walk in this way in loving conformity to the Father’s will.

Please help the truth to be in me.

Thank You my God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, come and abundantly dwell in me in great oneness.Help me to grow in loving.
Help me to be obedient to God’s will. Help me to be united in oneness with God and others.

 

December 2, 2025

Luke 10:21-24

Just at this time, filled with joy by the Holy Spirit, he said, 'I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to little children. Yes, Father, for that is what it has pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father; and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.' Then turning to his disciples he spoke to them by themselves, 'Blessed are the eyes that see what you see, for I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see, and never saw it; to hear what you hear, and never heard it.'

 

December 1, 2025

A Few Thoughts

How can you reach the life of resurrection, when you refuse to die to the ways not like Christ, or even admit they exist?

We are to live the life, death and resurrection of Jesus in our lives.
A person that is deeply hurt, in order to not deal with it, may wish that the world be molded according to them, not Christ so they don’t get hurt again or have pain.

They can make themselves the source and not Christ, trying to mold things around them.

Heart - Who is in your heart?

If my heart physically is full of high cholesterol,
then I must deal with it or have heart failure.

What about the person, whose heart is so full of pain and wounds,
they refuse to deal with their spiritual darkness.

What about being heart dead, refusing to love?

Fr. Carter’s love, he says, has emotions.

Jesus' Heart is on-fire with love. Burning!!

 

November 30, 2025

A Few Thoughts

From Fr. Carter “Christianity is fundamentally a life of love. The Christian is one who opens himself to God’s love, and responds with a love of his own. The Christian also realizes that his life is not only a love relationship with God, but also a going out of his self-centeredness to other human persons in various forms of Christian love. Finally, the Christian is one who realizes that in one way or another. He needs the love of others and is willing to open himself to this love.”  From Response in Christ by Fr. Edward Carter S.J.

God is love. God is the source of love. We were created in the image and likeness of Jesus.
To love is to be more like Jesus. Heaven is for lovers.
Jesus gives us Himself in the Eucharist. We eat His body, we drink His blood at every Mass. With every Mass we should be more and more transformed in Him.
Jesus is love.

Fr. Carter continues: ”The Church, the People of God, must increasingly give witness to these multiple dimensions of love. To the extent that the.Church fails to do so, to that degree, does she fail to be a faithful continuation of the Incarnation.

For the Incarnation is above all a manifestation of love, and thus in various ways. First of all, Christ is the tangible and irrevocable expression of God’s determination to communicate Himself in love to men: ’Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost, but may have eternal life.’ John 3:16

We grow in our relationships with God as we labor to love more our fellow brothers.
Likewise as we grow in our relationship with God, we love more openly with others and accept more openly their love for us.…

Fr. Carter continues:”

Love of God

“It sounds so common place and obvious to say that God loves us. But if we could more perfectly realize what it means to be loved by God, our chances for complete transformation in Christ would be enhanced. With God‘s grace, we must keep striving for a deeper comprehension of God‘s love . This love has brought us into existence, has redeemed us, and has given us a special mission in life. God in his love is ever with me, preserving me in life, asking me to accept Him more and more, desiring to take deeper possession of me in grace. God loves me, and He is my supporting rock, the one who will never fail me, the only one who can be my complete fulfillment.

God is the tremendous lover. And yet, we know that only two often we fail to respond to. Him as we should. But we must keep trying. We must keep trying to fulfill more completely the commandment Christ he has given us.

‘Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?’ Jesus, you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest in the first commandment. The second resembles it: you must love your neighbor as yourself…’ Mt 22:34-40”

 

1 John 4: 7-21

My dear friends, let us love one another, since love is from God and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. Whoever fails to love does not know God, because God is love. This is the revelation of God's love for us, that God sent his only Son into the world that we might have life through him. Love consists in this: it is not we who loved God, but God loved us and sent his Son to expiate our sins. My dear friends, if God loved us so much, we too should love one another.

No one has ever seen God, but as long as we love one another God remains in us and his love comes to its perfection in us. This is the proof that we remain in him and he in us, that he has given us a share in his Spirit. We ourselves have seen and testify that the Father sent his Son as Saviour of the world. Anyone who acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him and he in God. We have recognised for ourselves, and put our faith in, the love God has for us. God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him.

Love comes to its perfection in us when we can face the Day of Judgement fearlessly, because even in this world we have become as he is. In love there is no room for fear, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear implies punishment and no one who is afraid has come to perfection in love. Let us love, then, because he first loved us. Anyone who says 'I love God' and hates his brother, is a liar, since whoever does not love the brother whom he can see cannot love God whom he has not seen. Indeed this is the commandment we have received from him, that whoever loves God, must also love his brother.

 

August 31, 2024

A Few Thoughts

Jesus’ Love is Divine

Devotion to the Sacred Heart:
God gives Himself to man and man gives himself to God.
We see this Covenant relationship in the Mass.
We receive Jesus in the Eucharist.
I give myself to Jesus, He gives Himself to me.

Jesus’ Heart is the purest, most perfect Heart,
His Heart is heated in love for us.
Jesus’ love is Divine, on-fire love.
The love Jesus gives us is reciprocated by our giving of ourselves whole-heartedly to Jesus.
The Mass brings this intense love between God and man.

And because of this love relationship with God, how do we love one another.
Can it be said of us: “We know they are Christians by their love?”

What is needed in the tainted hearts today is a love relationship with the Sacred Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, our Savior.

What the world needs now is devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

What the world needs now is love.
In the Eucharist we are drawn to love of God and neighbor, for the Eucharist is a sacrifice and sacrament of love.

The Church is to lead us to this goal as lovers formed in the image and likeness of Jesus.
To be like Jesus is to love more tenderly as the Sacred Heart.

85 Years ago -
September 1, 1939
Germany bombed Poland, and there was World War II.

Until the messages of Jesus’ love are circulated in the Church, the bloodshed will continue.
The Mighty Medicine: the burning love of the Eucharistic Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Jesus hung for three agonizing hours against the darkened sky. Jesus gave His flesh! Jesus gave His blood! Jesus gave the last beat of His Heart, the last breath in His body! Covered with blood and weakened, He hung on the cross! Jesus gives us His body and blood in the Eucharist today.

This is love.
How do we return this Love to Jesus?
The Mass is the sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present.
 

November 30, 2025

A Few Thoughts

Fr. Carter has gifted us in telling us much about the spiritual life.
The Christian life essentially consists in God’s loving self-communication to us with our response to him in love.
God gives us a sharing in his life in baptism.
This life is nourished by the Eucharist.

Whatever the service is that we offer – an engineer, as doctor, as priest, as teacher, as mother, as nurse - it must be permeated with love. If it is not, it does not achieve its full effect in promoting God‘s creative and redemptive efforts.

At times it is only the motive of love, which will keep a person, faithful to his particular form of loving service. What but a deep love for her children supports a woman who has been deserted by her husband? What but a deep love of God and man can make a young man give up his family, the prospect of marriage, his homeland - all so that he may become a missionary priest?

It takes love, sometimes great love, to remain properly selfless and group activity. There is no room in such group enterprises for the person who is always mistakenly looking for the wrong type of self fulfillment at the expense of the particular organization. He who seeks his life shall lose it, and he loses his life, shall find it.

Another aspect of the situation of the love for others is this - we must be willing to love without receiving love in return. This is a hard lesson for us to learn, but a most necessary one. Father Carter says our Christian love is a participation in the love of Christ. And what is one outstanding feature of Christ's love? he has first loved man, and he has not always been loved in return. Yet Christ continues to love. In our love for others we also must be willing to take the initiative. God in his Providence wants us to receive love from others also. But if this love seems to be lacking at times, or only faintly manifest, then God can apply for the lack. The important thing is that we ourselves keep on trying to love.

There must be warmth in our love, likened to Christ. We are supposed to love God and man with our entire being. This means, in part, that our love is emotional. This is the way Christ as man loved, with his entire human nature. In the proper sense, Christ was a deeply emotional man. He wept in love over Jerusalem and he wept in love at the tomb of Lazarus. We know also that the children love to flock to Christ. He must have been a warm personality, for children, shy away from those who are cold and austere. Our love, like that of Christ, must also be properly influenced by the emotions. Otherwise, it is not a fully human love, and therefore not a fully Christian love.

Christ no longer walks the Earth. We Christians are extensions of the heavenly Christ. In union with Christ we help in continuing the tangible, visible presence of God‘s love in this world. Through the love of our visible, concrete persons we continue incarnational love. In loving those whom we may directly encounter in this manner – and let us remember. I can love a person with a basic Christian love without liking things about him – I help to give them courage to be and to become. Love received as a powerful force in developing the goodness in a person. Truly, when I love a person, I help that person become what God destined him to be.

We show love for others by allowing them to give us love. A person grows by, loving and receiving love from others, therefore, we are loving them by giving them this opportunity to grow. We ourselves need this love, which others give us. We are not self-sufficient beings; we are social beings who need others in so many different ways and going to the Father in Christ, we have to learn to open ourselves up to others and allow ourselves to be loved by them. At times in our pride, we shrink away from this truth: that we need others, this must be always be regulated by God‘s will. But we must resist these moments of pride that tell us we are self-sufficient. Remember, no man is an island.

   

December 2, 2025  

 

The snow came and was packed so tight against the window.
It came through the night.

God looked like He opened the sky and poured it down, while we slept.

We cannot predict the weather exactly many times.
We cannot control the things of the universe.
Why do we think we can try to control other people,
events that may occur in our lives, accidents, children at play that get hurt.

A lot is out of our control.
We can’t even control many things in our lives that may happen to us.

Dear God,

Serenity Prayer

God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change...
Courage to change the things I can
and Wisdom to know the difference.
 

The snow lay at least 6 inches all around in the morning.
It was a surprise when I awoke.

God gives us the day

A sunny day

A Beautiful Night

Flowers in spring

There is order in the universe.

God runs the universe
God is all powerful!
God is love.
Put your trust in Him.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

There is a season for everything, a time for every occupation under heaven:

A time for giving birth,
a time for dying;
a time for planting,
a time for uprooting what has been planted.
A time for killing,
a time for healing;
a time for knocking down,
a time for building.
A time for tears,
a time for laughter;
a time for mourning,
a time for dancing.
A time for throwing stones away,
a time for gathering them;
a time for embracing,
a time to refrain from embracing.
A time for searching,
a time for losing;
a time for keeping,
a time for discarding.
A time for tearing,
a time for sewing;
a time for keeping silent,
a time for speaking.
A time for loving,
a time for hating;
a time for war,
a time for peace.

 

Things are out of our control

            Excerpt July 9, 2021

            Jesus: A little bird play sweetly
                on a branch and posed in
                his basking sun. In the
                morning he sang sweet
                songs and the rest of the
                day looked beautiful and
                refreshed so you could gaze
                on his beauty and watch
                how he was cared for.

                    Oh little child, are you
                not more precious than
                a tiny yellow bird.

                    Oh My sweet one – breathe
                in Jesus and out tension –
                let go to Me. I am with you.
                I never give you more than
                you can handle.

                    I give you Myself in the
                Eucharist – truly present –
                Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity.
                Love is giving oneself for
                the good of the other. Loving
                God and choosing to be all
                God called you to be with
                obedience to God's will and
                love in your heart. I am
                there in the most difficult
                struggle.

                    You never relieve your own
                pain by wounding others –
                darkness and sin –

                    Turning your back on
                My hand I stretch out
                to you.

                    I am love –

                    I love you –

                    Let go to Me.

                    I am Jesus, Chief Shepherd
                        of the Flock.

                    I am your Savior.

                    I love you so much.

Mary came when she came.

Come Holy Spirit come!!

Mary came here and somebody on earth did this.

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March 10, 2024

Novena to St. Joseph, Patron and Father

Dear Saint Joseph,

I turn to you, you who cared and
protected the child Jesus and the
Virgin Mary.
You taught men and women, the
love of God by your example in life,
and by your faithfulness of living
your calling in greatest commitment
and love.

You loved Mary and Jesus with the
most gentle, bonds of love.

You showed us how you
lived in loving conformity to the
Heavenly Father's will.

You guided Jesus and Mary's precious
lives with the Holy Spirit, Spouse of
the Virgin Mother of God.

Protect us and our family this day and
every day of our lives, like
you did the Holy Family of Nazareth.
We seek your powerful intercession.

How intimately you knew and loved
Jesus and Mary. You were so close to
them. You showed us love.

Your heart was pure and gentle and
yet you were strong in being their
manly protector on earth, intercede
for us to depend more and more on
God for all our needs, for when we
are weak we are strong in God.

St. Joseph please intercede for a
peaceful and holy death for us and
our sick loved ones.
Amen.

St. Joseph help us now in this nine
day novena to you.
Amen.

  

May 14, 2024

R. Dear Holy Spirit come to me, possess
my soul, I love You, Holy Spirit.
When I am weak, I am strong in You.
Outpour Your precious love to me. Amen.
I love You, God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Dear Holy Spirit infuse in my intellect
wisdom, knowledge and understanding.
Counsel me Holy Spirit from the mind of
God.

Help me, dear Holy Spirit to know the loving
embrace of God all the days of my life.
I turn to You. Amen.

When I find doing God's desire for my life
difficult give me the gift of fortitude, dear
Holy Spirit.
Sanctify my heart to act purely for the
honor and glory of God.
I may be willing, but I need Your gift to
give me courage to act as You desire.
Help me to know and love the heavenly
Father's will for me and to do it in love
for the honor and glory of God.

Help me to always put God first in my life,
in love for God in my heart.
Help me to walk realizing, I am the creature,
God is the Creator.

Help me to be patient and strong and
persevere in my life until I rest with Thee
forever in heaven.

Please Holy Spirit give me the gift of fear
of God that I do not offend you in sins
of unloving ways against God.
You are so good and deserving of all my
love.
I worship You and love You -
Help my interior disposition at Mass to be
that of purity in pleasing the Heavenly
Father, in my offering united to Jesus in
the Mass.
Dear Holy Spirit please help me in the gift
of piety to do that which pleases my Heavenly
Father with the tenderness as His little child.
Thank you God for all You give to me.
I pray this "All for the honor and Glory of
God". Amen.
 

Matthew 22: 36-40

'Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?' Jesus said to him, 'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets too.'

Dear Holy Spirit, strengthen our will and
move like a Divine breath in our soul, to
be docile sons and daughters of our
Heavenly Father. Amen.

Alleluia. 

March 23, 2024

Prayer for Sick and Caregivers at Home

R. Dear God,
I pray Heavenly Father with all my heart,
in the Name of Jesus, united to the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass, in the Holy Spirit,
with all the angels and saints and souls
in purgatory, through the powerful
intercession of Our Lady of Clearwater
to come to my aid now.

My loved one is very sick and he (she)
needs your help, God.
Outpour Your grace for me in this time
of need to have patience and wisdom to
deal with this now.

I give this sickness up to You, my God.
Please help me in dealing with this and
helping them in doing the right thing
and dealing with this.

I surrender this problem to You, my
Divine God.

Please send Your angels to help me.
Spread us all with the Precious Blood of
Jesus, cast the devil into the fires of hell,
dear Holy Spirit come to my aid.

I consecrate my home, ourselves to the
Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate
Heart of Mary, Thank You.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I place my
trust in Thee.
Child Jesus of Good Health, help us.
St. Joseph, Patron of a Holy Death
come to our aid.
Amen.

 

July 29, 2024

R. Dear Mary,
My Mother, I love you so much.
Please take care of my needs in my family.
Ask your precious Son Jesus to help me
and my family.
You are the Mother of Jesus. You cared
so lovingly for Him in your life on earth.
You are His most perfect disciple.
Oh Mary, I love you so much, you are my
spiritual Mother.

There are many of my friends I ask you
to pray for, too.
I know your powerful intercession from
the wedding of Cana.
You stood beneath the cross on Calvary,
after you endured the bitter treatment of
your precious Son Jesus.
Oh Mary, you know so well the trials and
pains of life. Help me now, I turn to your
powerful intercession.

You stand by the altar at Mass and intercede
for Grace for us all day long, please never
abandon me, your little child.

Oh Mary I love you so, so much.

Oh Mary you are the Queen of Peace, please
help us in peace in the world, the Churchs,
the family, the work place for all your little
children of the world.
We need your help for peace now, hear our
pleas as we turn to your powerful intercession. 

     

December 1, 2025

Sorrowful Mysteries

The Agony in the Garden

1. Jesus took Peter, James and John in the Garden.
2. Jesus told the Apostles to pray. Jesus went away to pray.
3. The Apostles slept.
4. Jesus went to the Apostles and told them to pray.
5. Jesus told them 3 times and they slept.
6. Jesus was in such suffering He sweat blood. And His blood was great drops of blood on the ground.
7. Think of how great was Jesus’ anguish to sweat blood, so much suffering.
8. Jesus knew the souls that would reject Him, no matter how much He suffered for them.
9. Jesus’ greatest anguish was to His Sacred Heart, not even for the wounds, but for how they rejected His love and gifts and would lose their souls.

10. John 3:16

For this is how God loved the world:
he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him 
    may not perish
but may have eternal life.

 

The Scourging at the Pillar

1. They bound Jesus to the pillar and began beating Him, unmercifully.
2. Jesus’ body was raw with wounds from head to toe because of their enormous beating of His flesh.
3. God the Father has a Plan for our lives.
4. God allowed His only begotten Son to pay the price for our sins.
5. Envision Jesus at the pillar. See His raw skin and men whipping Him profusely, tearing His all ready beaten flesh.
6. Jesus could have stopped it all, but He never gave up. Jesus endured this for love of us.
7. God the Father wants us in heaven forever. Heaven is our true home.
8. Jesus sacrificed for our sins. Jesus loves us so much.
9. Oh Jesus, I’m so sorry for our sins. Thank You for all You did for our salvation.
10. Jesus never gave up. Jesus loves us so much.

 

Jesus was Crowned with Thorns

1. Jesus is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
2. Jesus was mocked and spit on by the evil men.
3. They pounded a crown of thorns into Jesus' scull. Oh Jesus, Your head was covered with blood from the abuse of these men to Your head.
4. They clothed Jesus with a dirty, purple robe and mocked Jesus, giving Jesus a scepter, hollaring: "King of the Jews" in mockery.
5. Can you see someone pounding thorns in your head, Jesus allowed this to pay for our sins that offends God.
6. God is Almighty, All Powerful, Jesus deserves respect, reverence, love, praise, and adoration.
7. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life.
    Satan is the Father of lies.
8. Jesus wants us to meditate on how much He loves us.
9. Jesus paid for our sins. They hit Him on His already wounded body, over and over again.
10. Oh God thank You for creating us, thank You for loving us, Oh God I adore You, help me to serve You, in humility, as You call me to do. Help me to serve in love.

 

Christ Carried His Cross

1. Christ carried the cross laden with the sins of the world.
2. Besides being wounded all over, weakened, He was forced to carry the cross with all the sins of all mankind.
3. Jesus was silent, His thoughts of love for us, His beloved.
4. Men poked Him and hit Him, kicked Him, whacked Him and Jesus was the innocent Lamb led to the slaughter.
5. Jesus paid for our sins because He loves us.
6. Jesus fell under the heavy cross, three times.
7. Satan tempts men to sin - they tell themselves right is wrong and wrong is right.
8. Sin offends God, who is love and all worthy of our love.
9. God is love, we were created in the image and likeness of God.
10. God the Father, is our Father, He loved us into existence.
    God wants us to live the life, death and resurrection of Jesus in our lives.

 

The Crucifixion

1. Oh my God, thank You for dying for me.
2. The greatest sacrifice is Jesus dying on the cross.
3. The Mass is the sacrifice of Calvary, sacramentally made present.
4. Jesus hung for 3 hours on the cross to His death.
5. We have original sin, but Baptism takes away original sin, but we have a wounded human nature and a tendency toward the deadly sins. We need Jesus!
The more we love, the more we are like Jesus. God the Father created us in the image and likeness of Jesus.
6. God wants us to go to heaven, and be with Him eternally in the beatific vision.
We were created in love by God the Father.
Jesus in carrying the cross felt abandoned and fell under the heavy cross, but love for us, "His beloved" consumed Him, because He wants us with Him forever in heaven. Jesus went with love for us, love for His Father, to the cross to pay for our sins.
Jesus consumed with Divine love, emptied Himself, gave Himself, suffered abuse, violence, rejection and death, so we could live and share in His life in Baptism and be one in Him.
7. Jesus consumed with love gave His all - the last drop of His Blood, the last beat of His Heart.
Jesus was buried in a new tomb and rose from the dead on the third day as He foretold.
8. The Mass is celebrated, all day around the world. We want to help in the work of redemption for ourselves and others.
We unite to Jesus in the Mass all day and offer our lives in unity with Jesus in the Mass, living the Father’s will in love.
Our lives are an offering (a sacrifice) united to Jesus in the Mass to please our Heavenly Father.

John 3:16

For this is how God loved the world:
he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him 
    may not perish
but may have eternal life.

9. When we are at Mass we are offering ourselves with Jesus to the Father. We want a holy offering.
The Father is well pleased with Jesus’ sacrifice and ours together with Jesus and He outpours His grace.
The Father gives us Jesus in the Blessed sacrament. With every Eucharist we receive, we should be more and more transformed.
We receive Jesus, in the Eucharist: Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity.
10. Oh God thank You for the priest - Persona Christi.
Oh God, I am a sinner, imperfect in my ways, but I love You so much.
Please God outpour Your grace to me and for the Church and the world.
God gives us what we need to be made more in that image of Jesus.
This is our destiny.

Jesus was always preparing to return home to His Father.
We are little ones created by our Father. God gives us the Sacraments. God gives us a sharing in His life in Baptism and feeds us with the Eucharist.
We die to the ways not like Jesus to rise in Jesus, to be more filled by God.
Oh God we will go home to heaven someday if we obey You and love You as You deserve.
Help me to heal spiritually and please my Father in Heaven.
God created us for Heaven, eternally, we give our hearts to Jesus and Mary in love, to dwell in Their pure and perfect Hearts -
Fr. Carter called dwelling in Their Hearts, our little heaven on earth.
Only God can fill us with Divine love and help us to grow in the image of Jesus -
Dear God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore You, I worship You, I love You
Come and fill my weary soul with You.

Oh God is so good to us.
We are His “Beloved ones”.
God loves us personally.
God has all we need.

Read the Blue Books, pray the Rosary, say the Morning Offering and give your hearts to Jesus and Mary.

Love, Love, Love -

God is love!!
God is the source of love and truth.
Live as the Father wills in love.

Prepare to go home to the Father some day - live this way - to please the heavenly Father (Jesus did).
Listen to Jesus.
Amen.

 

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Rita Ring
		Mass Book A Journey Into the Heart of Jesus - Author: Rita Ring. Discerned by: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. Imprimatur $ 12.00   Mass Book, by Rita Ring: Many of the entries in the Priestly Newsletter Volume II from a spiritual journal came from this book. These entries   are to help people to be more deeply united to God in the Mass. This book is available in English and Spanish with the Church’s Imprimatur.   $12

		Rosary Meditations for Parents and Children From the Hearts of Jesus and Mary Author: Rita Ring. Discerned by: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. Imprimatur $ 10.00   Rosary Meditations for Parents and Children, by Rita Ring, Short Meditations for both parents and children to be used when praying the   rosary. These meditations will help all to know the lives of Jesus and Mary alive in their Hearts. Available in both English and Spanish with   the Church’s Imprimatur. $10

		God's Blue Book 1 Teachings to Lift You Up  Author: Rita Ring $ 8.00   God's Blue Book I  reprinted  by Rita Ring. $8   God's Blue Book 3 Love God Love One Another  Author: Rita Ring $ 5.00 God's Blue Book III   by Rita Ring. $5

		God's Blue Book 4 The Love of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary Author: Rita Ring $ 5.00 God's Blue Book IV by Rita Ring. This book is about the love Jesus has for Mary and Mary has for Jesus and Jesus and Mary have for us    It is truly the Love of the Two Hearts. Mary appeared every day at the Holy Spirit Center    Fr. Carter was there. Mary's first apparition July 5, 1994. $5

		God's Blue Book 5 So Deep Is the Love of His Heart. Author: Rita Ring. $ 5.00 God's Blue Book V by Rita Ring. Jesus wants to be the bridegroom of our soul    He is our beloved    Jesus tells us about pure love    how we are to be pure of heart and love God and love others. It is a must, to hear about love from Jesus    Jesus is love    $5

		God's Blue Book 6A He Calls Us to Action Author: Rita Ring. $ 5.00 God's Blue Book 6A by Rita Ring. Rosaries from Their Hearts during apparitions. Jesus and Mary appeared every day and I received rosaries from Them and They were transcribed from a tape. Also messages of love from Jesus on days of January, 1995    About Baptism    writings from Fr. Carter and the Scriptures. $10

		God's Blue Book 6B He Calls Us to Action - The Sixth Book, Part B Author: Rita Ring. $ 5.00 God's Blue Book 6B by Rita Ring. Jesus and Mary appeared every day in February, 1995    So beautiful    transcribed from a tape    the Stations, 7 Sorrows, prayers in the Prayer Manual, the Holy Spirit Novena Book and the Song Book. Pure love    loving and forgiving    a book about Jesus' love, baptism, grace and Fr. Carter's Newsletter. $10

		God's Blue Book 6C He Calls Us to Action - The Sixth Book, Part C Author: Rita Ring. $ 5.00

		God's Blue Book 7 Intimacy with God by Rita Ring $ 5.00

		God's Blue Book 8 See thru the Eyes of Mary. Author: Rita Ring and Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. $ 5.00

		God's Blue Book 9 The Mass and the Hearts of Jesus and Mary $ 5.00

		God's Blue Book 10 God's Blue Book 10 - This is My Body $ 5.00

		God's Blue Book 11 God's Blue Book 11 - Showers of His Grace $ 5.00

		God's Blue Book 12 Solidarity In Chirst $ 5.00

		God's Blue Book 13 Grace $ 5.00

		God's Blue Book 14 God the Father Speaks After Clearwater $ 5.00

		God's Blue Book 15 Life $ 5.00

		Blue Book 16 Mary Mother of the Eucharist $ 5.00
		God's Blue Book 17 Life In Him $ 5.00
		God's Blue Book 18 Jesus, Bridegroom of Our Soul $ 5.00
		God's Blue Book 19 The Lamb of God $ 5.00
		God's Pre-Blue Book Loved in a Personal Way $ 5.00
		God's Pre-Blue Book 2 My Hand is Upon You $ 5.00

		Apostle's Manual Shepherds of Christ Overview: Very carefully discerned by Fr. Edward J. Carter S. J. $ 20.00 Apostles Manual. About the Movement — the structure of the Movement    All Ministries — from the time 3 months before Mary appeared in Clearwater and 3 months after. Rosaries of the 13ths, Fr. Carter's Newsletters. Messages from God the Father    Reaching the priests, the Church, the schools and the world. $20

		Rosaries From the Hearts of Jesus and Mary - Volume I Red Rosary Book - Author: Rita Ring. Discerned by: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. $ 10.00 Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary Book 1. Mary appeared in Clearwater December 17, 1996 in rainbow color and these rosaries left the printer the same day from Apparitions of Jesus and Mary    transcribed from a tape. $10

		Blue Rosary Book Rosaries From the Hearts of Jesus and Mary - Volume II $ 12.00 Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary Book 2. This is a book of so many rosaries — transcribed from a tape. So many beautiful rosaries.   pages  $12

		Messages From Jesus Messages From Jesus for the Ederly, Ill, and Homebound Given by Jesus to His Messenger - Author: Rita Ring Discerned by Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. $ 10.00 Messages for the Elderly, Ill and Homebound. This is a big book of loving messages for nursing home people and homebound from Jesus and Mary    Their lives are so important    united to the Mass offering up their suffering, their lives for the souls of this earth. $10

		Short Rosary Meditations for the Ederly, Ill, and Homebound From the Hearts of Jesus and Mary: Author: Rita Ring. Discerned by: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. Imprimatur $ 10.00 Short Rosary Meditations for the Elderly, Ill and Homebound. This book is so important with pictures they can open it and lay it on their laps and pray the rosary. $10

		Songs From Jesus Given by Jesus to His Messenger Author: Rita Ring. Discerned by: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. $ 5.00 Songs from Jesus Songbook. These loving songs were given from Jesus. So beautiful    Love Songs from Jesus of His love — helping us have pure and loving hearts. $3

		Daily Messages From Heaven From the Florida Apparition Site Author: Rita Ring. Discerned by: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. $ 10.00

		Rosary Meditations for Little People and Elderly Short Meditations for the Rosary $ 3.00

		Meditaciones del Rosario para Pequenos y Ancianos $ 10.00

Fr. Joe Robinson

 

Inspiring Homilist & Author
 

Fr. Joseph Robinson has dedicated his life to serving Christ and the Church for over 40 years.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

	Guiding Light - The Mystery of Christ Guiding Light - The Mystery of Christ, Cycle A - Homilies for 2022 - 2023 $ 10.00
	Guiding Light - In the Image of Jesus Guiding Light - In the Image of Jesus Cycle C - Homilies for 2021 - 2022 $ 10.00

Guiding Light - Bread of Life Guiding Light - Bread of Life, Cycle A for 2019 - 2020 $ 10.00

Guiding Light - Walk in the Light Guiding Light - Walk in the Light, Cycle C for 2018 - 2019 $ 10.00

		Guiding Light - The Word Alive in Our Hearts Guiding Light - The Word Alive in Our Hearts Cycle B 2017 - 2018 $10.00 Guiding Light — The Word Alive in Our Hearts. — Cycle B    Homilies by the Reverend Joe Robinson given at St. Boniface Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is a tremendous honor Fr. Joe has allowed us to share these great gifts with you – for greater holiness and knowing more and more about God. $10

		Guiding Light - The Soul Who Could Guiding Light - The Soul Who Could Cycle A 2016/2017 $10.00 Guiding Light — The Soul Who Could. — Cycle A    Homilies by the Reverend Joe Robinson given at St. Boniface Church in Cincinnati, Ohio.  $10

		Guiding Light - Trust and Transform Guiding Light - Trust and Transform, Cycle C for 2015/2016 $ 10.00

		Guiding Light - By God Through Me Guiding Light - By God Through Me, Cycle B for 2014/2015 $ 10.00

		Guiding Light - Inspired To Be Genuine Guiding Light - Inspired To Be Genuine, Cycle A for 2013/2014 $ 10.00

		Guiding Light - Centered In Christ Fr. Joe Robinson's latest homilies for Cycle C for 2012/2013. $ 10.00

		Guiding Light - Reflect on the Word Inspiring Homilies Covering Cycle B of the Litugical Year (2011/2012) $ 10.00 Guiding Light homily series — Reflect on the Word — Cycle B     The Word leaves an impression on our souls. In my thoughts and reflections are born a more tangible understanding of these eternal concepts presented in the Gospels and the readings. Anyone can read a sentence, but not anyone can absorb it's true meaning. Truth, in this day and age, is almost a matter of opinion or individual entitlement. We believe that Christ's truth is our Roman Catholic Church. We, as priests, champion it's teachings; we are ambassadors for the Pope and Christ to those faces looking at us. We are the light by which our congregation reads to reflect upon real truth and we do it hand in hand. $10

		Guiding Light - Steadfast to the Son Inspiring Homilies Covering Cycle A of the Litugical Year $ 10.00 Guiding Light homily series — Steadfast to the Son — Cycle A    The sunflower is a great example of how we should be steadfastly guided by light. What a powerful thought that this exceptional plant is not stuck in one pose day in and day out, yet adaptable and magnetized to the sun. We feel the same about our Son. Our heads turns to face Christ as each day presents its challenges to find light. We join together like plants in a field and soak up the Son through the pulpit. We are a warm circle of strength using the wind of our breath to carry our priests' words, Christ's words, to new rich soil. $10

		Guiding Light - Focusing on the Word Inspiring Homilies Covering Cycle B of the Litugical Year $ 10.00 Guiding Light — Focusing on the Word — Cycle B    At times we may feel that our path to Christ is a bit "out of focus". Like the disciples in the Book of Mark, this ordinary life clouds our vision of Christ's Divinity. We may doubt the practicality or possibility of applying His teachings and example to our modern life. Cycle B's homilies are a "guiding light" to help us realize Jesus' Messianic greatness and His promise of better things to come. $10

		Guiding Light - Feed My Soul Inspiring Homilies Covering Cycle C of the Litugical Year $ 10.00 Guiding Light — Feed My Soul — Cycle C    In a world rapidly advancing and encouraging personal gain, we are faced with modern problems. There is a challenge to find time in our busy schedules for Sunday Mass or a family meal. We are able to research, shop, bank and even work without hearing one human voice. It is no wonder that we may often feel disconnected and famished at our week's end. In Fr. Joe's third book of homilies from Cycle C, we are reminded of the charity that Christ intended us to show each other. We have a calling to turn the other cheek and be the Good Samaritan to others. We are rewarded with the Father's kingdom and love when we are not worthy. We are not left alone or hungry. $10

Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J.

Here are all the products in this category:

Books written by the founder of Shepherds of Christ Ministries

		Response in Christ Fr. Edward J. Carter gives to the modern Christian a message that will sustain him. $ 10.00

		Response to God's Love ...God Himself is the Ultimate Mystery $ 10.00 Response to God’s Love by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J. In this book Fr. Carter speaks of God as the ultimate mystery. We can meditate on the interior life of the Trinity. Fr. Carter tells us about our uniqueness in the Father's Plan for us, how the individual Christian, the Church and the world are in the state of becoming. Imprimatur. $10

		Shepherds of Christ Spirituality Newsletters 1 Selected Writings on Spirituality—for All People Editor: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. Imprimatur $ 10.00 Shepherds of Christ — Selected Writings on Spirituality for all People as Published in Shepherds of Christ Newsletter for Priests. Contains 12 issues of the newsletter from July/August 1994 to May/June 1996. $15

		Spirituality Newsletters 2 Selected Writings on Spirituality — for All People Editor: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. Imprimatur $ 12.00 Shepherds of Christ — Volume 2: by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J. Contains issues 13—29 of the newsletter (September/October 1996 — Issue 5, 1999) $15

		Shepherds of Christ Spirituality Newsletters 3 Selected Writings on Spirituality — for All People Editor: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. $ 10.00 Shepherds of Christ — Volume 3 by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J. Contains Newsletter Issues 1 through 4 of 2000 including Fr. Carter’s tremendous Overview of the Spiritual Life $10

		Tell My People Messages from Jesus and Mary Author: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. Imprimi Potest $ 10.00 Tell My People. Messages from Jesus and Mary (As given to Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.)    One of Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.'s Synopsis of the Spiritual Life    From Jesus to Fr. Carter "On Holy Saturday, 1994, Jesus told me that on the following day, Easter, I would also begin to receive messages for others. Our Lord also told me that some of these were eventually to be published in a book  and here is that book." $10

		Spirituality Handbook Shepherds of Christ Associates Spirituality Handbook - A Way of Spiritual Life Author: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. Imprimi Potest $ 3.00 Spirituality Handbook. Fr. Edward Carter, S.J. did 3 synopsis of the spiritual life. The Spirituality Handbook, the Priestly Newsletter 20he Tell My People book. The way of spiritual life proposed to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates is centered in consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. All aspects of the spiritual life discussed below should be viewed as means to help members develop their lives in consecration to Christ, the Sacred Heart, and to Mary, the Immaculate Heart. $3

		The Spirituality of Fatima Fatima: The Setting, The Message, The Spirituality of Consecration $ 5.00 The Spirituality of Fatima by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J. The Fatima apparitions and messages received official Church approval in 1930. In giving her official approval to the Fatima event, the Church tells us that what took place at Fatima involving the three young visionaries is worthy of our belief. $5

Shepherds of Christ Holy Spirit Novena CD   Holy Spirit Novena Read by: Rita Ring   $ 10.00  plus postage   Holy Spirit Novena CD. Prayers and scripture readings from the Holy Spirit Novena Booklet read by Rita Ring. $10

 

Statues/Religious Items

Blue Crystal Rosary   Rosary with the Image of Our Lady of Clearwater   8mm - $ 40.00 plus shipping

Red Crystal Rosary   Rosary with the Image of Our Lady of Clearwater   8mm - $ 40.00 plus shipping

Clear Crystal Rosary   Rosary with the Image of Our Lady of Clearwater   8mm - $ 40.00 plus shipping

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                    R. Pray for these things

                ^{1) Pray for the Pope & hierarchy to help us start prayer chapters.
                2) Pray for Special people.
                3) Pray for the priests, the Church and the world!
                4) Pray for the spread of prayer chapters,
                    also for the spread of priests doing prayer chapters.
                5) Pray for the spread of Blue Books.
                6) People going to Florida and China.
                7) Vocations to all 7 categories.
                8) Pray for spread of Consecration and Rosary.
                9) Pray for pope helping us.
               10) Pray for Jeff.
               11) Pray for the country
               12) All intentions on my list, Jerry's list.
               13) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
               14) Pray for Fr. Joe's new book, cover & funds for printing & postage.
               15) Donors and members and their families.
               16) Healing of the Family tree.
               17) Pray for the Corona Virus to go away
               18) All who asked us to pray for them.
               19) All we promised to pray for.
               20) Rita, Doris, Sheila, Jerry, Sanja, Fr. Mike, Louie, Laverne,
                    Fr. Joe, all priests helping us, Ed, Jimmy, Mary,
                    Carol R., a special couple, Rosie & all involved.
               21) All of our families.
               22) Funds and insurance.
               23) All of our houses.
               24) In thanksgiving for gifts, graces, & blessings received.
               25) Spread the Blood of Jesus on all of us here.
               26) Consecrate all hearts.
               27) Cast the devil out of all of us here and all in Movement.}

 

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