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 11p.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.

December 26, 2001

December 27th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 2 Period II.
The Novena Rosary Mystery
for December 27th is Sorrowful.

   

This is from the president

Newsletter Book II update:

We received $45,000 for the Newsletter Book II.

We need at least another additional $30,000 for postage.

The donor has already matched the first $40,000.

Please help us with the postage so the priests can receive the Newsletter Book as soon as it is printed. 

Thank you so much for all who have given. We really want to please God the Father this Christmas.

   

Messenger: We have a Donor that will match the funds for the Newsletter so for every $1 you give, the donor will match the money for the Newsletter until we get $150,000 for the Newsletter Book II.

Jesus wants it out —

Please we need the money urgently because God the Father wants the Newsletter Book II out by Christmas. 


Excerpt from July 14, 2001 message

Mary speaks:

     ...The Father wishes the Priestly Newsletter Book II
    to reach all the 75,000 Priests. Pray Hourly for
    funds for this.
..Please if you can help, help
    me.
        Sending the Priestly Newsletter Book II to the
    75,000 Priests will help to change the face of the
    earth.

end of excerpt from July 14, 2001 message


Excerpt from August 18, 2001 message 

Messenger:     ... We need to send the Priestly Newsletter Book II
   
                             to the priests of this earth.

                             This is God's plan. God the Father said
                                "The Priestly Newsletter Book II would
                                    help to change the face of the earth."

end of excerpt from August 18, 2001 message 


Excerpt from October 19, 2001 message

Mary speaks:  ... Please I ask you to get my Son's priestly
                            Newsletter Book II, with the
                            prayer manual to my priest sons
                            by Christmas.

                        These writings were directed by my Son Jesus and given
                            to Father Carter to circulate for the renewal
                            of the Church and the world.

                        The Father has said this book will help to
                            change the face of the earth.

end of excerpt from October 19, 2001      

        

December 26, 2001

Messenger:        I went to Church at 10:00 Mass Christmas Day
                        and after Church I was walking and I stepped on a
                        stone and my foot overturned. My foot really hurt when
                        it happened, but then I thought it was okay. Our Lord
                        told me to go home after that and get ready for my
                        family for Christmas dinner. I just about had everything
                        ready about 3:00PM and my foot began hurting
                        so bad, I soon couldn't walk. I had even set the
                        table about 2:00PM I couldn't believe it was done for
                        they weren't coming until about 5:30. Now I know
                        why He told me to go home and get busy. I couldn't
                        walk and I would soon have a house full of guests.
                        It worked out, my sister did a lot of the work and there
                        were two doctors there and a nurse. I just couldn't
                        believe I had a house of guests and there I sat with my
                        foot hurting so bad but the good news was I had good
                        care with the doctors. I felt like there was a nail in my
                        foot right where Christ's nail was, then I couldn't walk,
                        no matter how much I wanted to, it just hurt so bad
                        I couldn't walk.

                            We take so many things for granted. We don't want
                        to be sitting down on the job many times. It seems
                        there should be a way to do it if we want to do it and
                        yet some physical thing can stop us in our tracks.

                            We have bodies and they can serve us really well
                        and help us get the things done we feel we should,
                        but sometimes we just get stopped.

                    My great delight is to be with Him at Mass. Today
                He has told me that so much grace is released from
                one Mass.

    

  

December 26, 2001 message continues

Messenger:     Jesus told me it is so very serious that we are
                            having fewer and fewer people answering their vocations
                            to the priesthood. Jesus told me to circulate the Mass
                            videos, to get the little coloring book out on the Mass,
                            to have a little book for children with Mass pictures
                            in it to look at, at Mass.

                Jesus said when the Priestly Newsletter Book II gets
                    in the hands of the priests, it will majorly
                    affect the priests and the people.
                    He said, do not ever give up hope.
                    The Newsletter Book II should go immediately
                    to the priests with the Prayer Manual in it.

                We should all be praying for this and praying
                    for this in the Mass when we attend, praying
                    all through the day in our morning 
                    offering.

  

Nursing Home and
Homebound Mass

This Mass was specially said for nursing home and homebound people, but is also for small children and all others. It is 33 minutes in length. We tried to keep it as short as possible.

Shepherds of Christ Ministries
P.O. Box 193, Morrow, OH 45152 
www.sofc.org  (toll free) 1-888-211-3041

    

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:   My children, the Mass video is a tremendous aid
                            for the elderly and homebound.

                        I want My Priestly Newsletter Book II to reach My
                            priests now.

                        You do not even comprehend how serious the situation
                            is.

                        You will have fewer and fewer priests.
                        So much grace is released from one Mass.

  

  

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:  The devil wants the Masses to be stopped, the devil
                            has distracted many of the young men of this
                            world and led them astray. Many priests are so
                            busy about the running of the parish, they do not
                            pray their office, they do not spend time in a holy
                            hour before the Blessed Sacrament, many priests
                            hardly ever pray the rosary.

                        There will be fewer and fewer priests.

                        I give you My Movement to help to bring
                            down great grace for your priests,
                            the Church and the world.

                        The priests have blocked My Movement.
                        Satan presses on people. Some people even
                            remove the Prayer Manuals from the book
                            racks in the back of church.

                        Why in this day and age where there is so
                            much evil would a priest stop a       
                            prayer chapter dedicated to praying for
                            the priests, the Church and the world.

                        You look at your world. You think you do not
                            have to pay Me heed. I have sent these
                            messages as a mighty-medicine for the
                            hurting souls of the world and the devil
                            has worked to block them.

                        See Me on the cross.

  

   

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:   This is My Movement—I appear in
                            rainbow color to you.

  

December 17, 2001

  

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:   Oh the wind will blow, the rains will
                            pour down on your troubled earth,
                            I will send you warnings and you
                            won't listen to Me.

                        All the money in the world and I send
                            such a sign as this—

   

December 17, 2001

 

December 17, 2001

 

December 17, 2001

 

December 17, 2001

   

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:  For 5 years Mary has appeared and you fight
                            the messenger I send.

                        Open your eyes and look.

                        Don't let satan work to block the sign
                            I send.

                        So many people have received tremendous
                            graces at the Virgin Mary building.

                            You come and you too may receive a
                                special grace.

                            So one decides they want to control what
                                happens there.

                            I will not be controlled.

                            There are Churches all over the world and
                                I want My priests to tell the people
                                about the power in the Eucharist,
                                many move Me from My place
                                as the Center of that Church.

                        They focus on the festival, they focus on teachings
                            in the schools to help the students be
                            wise, but do not teach them to pray
                            the rosary. Many do not teach them
                            about the importance of the Mass
                            or the gift of the priesthood.

                        Out of a school of 1600 high school boys
                            you may have only a few priests,
                            but many, many learned scientists,
                            businessmen, stock market tycoons.

                        My men you do not know the gifts given to you in
                            the priest.

  

  

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:    I give you this song

  

  

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:  I can stop you all dead in your tracks, you
                            will not listen.

                        I give you My Movement Shepherds of Christ.
                        I give you My Priestly Newsletter for My
                            Priests.

                        I give you these prayers

  

  

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:      to pray for the priests, the Church and the world.

                        I give you the Virgin Mary Building to promote
                            this, I give this as a sign so you will
                            listen to Me and you want to
                            do what you want with this.

                        You are not teaching My children what they
                            need to know about the Priesthood
                            in My Catholic Schools.

                        I give you these Mass Books.

  

    

  

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:   I want little ones having these books on
                            the Mass—

                                            Coloring Book of the Mass

                                            Little people's pictures of the Mass.

 

  

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:   I want priests to spend time daily in
                            private prayer. Have a hour set
                            aside every day for private
                            adoration before the Blessed Sacrament.

                        Read My Blue Books, they lead people
                            to the Eucharist.

                            The power is in the Eucharist.

                            I want Eucharistic Adoration in Churches,
                                around the clock.

                            I want people attending daily Mass and
                                praying for the priests, the Church
                                and the world.

 

  

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:      I want people to be Apostles of the
                                Eucharistic Heart of Jesus.

                            I want little children, children in
                                schools praying the rosary and
                                meditating on Our lives. I want
                                them meditating on all 15 mysteries.

                        Oh please help Me.

                        You are so busy.

                        Some priests do not say daily Mass.
                        There is so much grace released from
                            one Mass.

                        Priests have been given this book from Me.

  

  

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:   Oh I have given the priest so much power.

                        They are so important to the souls of this
                            earth, they should busy themselves
                            with priestly duties and prayers.

                        I love My priests so very much.

                        I give them so many gifts.

  

  

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:   You have a problem.

                        I send this as a message.

                        You must pray for your priests, the Church
                            and the world.

                        I send these writings of Fr. Carter for
                            My priests.

                        I send My messages for My priests.
                        I want My Building in Florida
                            used for this purpose.

                        I want priests to love their priesthood.

                        I want young men to realize the gift given
                            to a young man called to be a priest.

                            I want men to love the Eucharist.

                            I want all people to long and thirst
                                to go to the Mass.

 

  

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:      I want people to pray the Morning Offering
                                and unite to the Mass all day.

                            I want shut-ins and nursing home people
                                to watch the Mass video and other
                                videos and to know Mary appears
                                to her children to ask them to
                                pray for the priests, the Church
                                and the world.

                            I want men to make the Sacred Heart of
                                Jesus, 

  

  

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:            the King and
                                Center of their hearts and their lives.

                            I want to be enthroned in all places
                                on the earth.

                            I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus, I want
                                to be honored in homes.

                            I want My Picture and the picture of
                                My Mother, as the Immaculate
                                Heart of Mary, to be hung in

                                all homes and all schools.

                            I want pictures of My Sacred Heart
                                and My Mother's Immaculate
                                Heart hung in Church and/or
                                statues placed there.

                            I want more and more statues of
                                the Sacred Heart and Immaculate
                                Heart made and sold.

                            It is difficult to even find an outdoor
                                large statue of the Immaculate Heart
                                of Mary.

                            I want to teach the world from My Image
                                Site and Image site of My
                                Mother in Florida.

                            I want children to consecrate their hearts
                                to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate
                                Heart at an early age.

                            Oh you are so busy and you keep doing

                                things the way you want to.

                            I want you to pray to do the will of God.
                            I want your hearts on fire for love of God.

                            If you were teaching what you should to
                                young men there would be more men
                                following their vocations.

                            You have ignored Me and My desire for
                                you to spread My Prayer Chapters.

                            You have persecuted the messengers I
                                have sent.

                            You have not helped Me.

                            You want your plan to be the same,

                                but you aren't reaching My

                                people as I desire.

                            I want people who love the Sacred

                                Eucharistic Heart of Jesus and

                                have made God the Center

                                of their lives.

                            I want you to obey the 1st
                                Commandment.

                                "I, the Lord, am your God. 
                                   You shall not have other gods besides me."

                            The name Jesus Christ is one of the 
                                most frequently used "slang 
                                words".

                            My name is to be honored.

                                 I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus

                           I am Chief Shepherd of the Flock -

                           Give the children My coloring books on
                               the mysteries of the rosary.

                           Give them the meditations from
                               Our Hearts for the rosary

  


   

Excerpt from March 21, 1995 Rosary - Red Rosary Book

Scourging at the Pillar

10. Jesus:  I call you to purity. I call you to open up your hearts, to rid yourselves of anything that is impure. I long to be closely united with each of you. People are watching you! If you call yourselves Christians, then you must act as I would act! Do you preach the Gospel in your actions? Is your way the way of love? I came to show you the way. Will you follow Me? Will you love all your brothers as I ask you to do? People are watching you, My faithful Christians, apostles that I send into this world to spread the love of My Most Sacred Heart. You are being watched and are teaching so many lessons through your example. I call out to you today to rid yourselves of all impurities in your heart. Then you will receive a reward that far surpasses anything you can gain on this earth. You will receive closer union with My Most Sacred Heart. I love you! I love you! I love you! Moment by moment, second by second, I am there to provide you with everything you need. You must surrender and trust in Me!

end of excerpt from March 21, 1995 Rosary

 


  

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:     Oh it is simple and you want it complicated.

                            I speak simply 

  


  

The Stations of the Cross

Photo of First Station The First Station
JESUS IS CONDEMNED TO DEATH

With angry hearts and hatred on their faces, they poked at Jesus and condemned Jesus to death. He stood so silent, His hands tied, in perfect peace, because He knew the Father's love. He knew the Father's will. We too will stand our trials in peace, the more we realize the immense love the Father, Son and Holy Spirit have for us. We must pray to the Spirit to transform us more and more into His image and, through this transformation, we will be led ever closer to the Father. Oh, how Jesus loves us!


Photo of Second Station The Second Station
THEY GIVE JESUS THE CROSS

They gave Jesus a heavy cross, laden with the sins of the world. They placed it on His shoulder. It was so heavy He felt as if His shoulder would break. He asks us to carry little crosses, to experience little pains. He could not remove this cross from His shoulder. The weight was unbearable. It is through His suffering and death that we receive new life. It is through our sufferings this day that we will grow in our life with Jesus. Jesus loves us so much that He took up the cross of salvation. He loves us. To His death He loved us. Oh, how Jesus loves us!


Photo of Third Station The Third Station
JESUS FALLS THE FIRST TIME

The cross was so heavy Jesus could hardly walk. He held on to His cross for greatest love of us and in compliance with the will of His Father. It became so hard to walk! The cross was so heavy! He fell. He fell and the cross fell on Him. They poked at Him, they struck Him, they demanded He get up. The pain from the instruments they used to poke Him and strike Him was so great! He somehow managed to get up. When we fall under the weight of our cross, we go to Jesus' Eucharistic Heart. He is no less present in the tabernacle and in the Eucharist than on the day He carried His cross. He waits with the same love that He had for us when He carried His cross and suffered such agony. Oh, how Jesus loves us!


Photo of Fourth Station The Fourth Station
JESUS AND MARY MEET

Jesus saw the face of His beautiful Mother. She was weak, her face reddened and full of tears. He saw her tender heart, her love, her anguish, her pain. He saw His dear Mother Mary. His Heart was comforted by the sight of her, but torn by her suffering.

As Mary looked into the eyes of her beloved Son, she saw His love. His head, bleeding and wounded. His body weak. His clothes covered with blood. She looked into His eyes and she saw His love for us. She wants to call us back to the love of her Son. See through her eyes, as she peers into His eyes, the love He has for us this day. He gave Himself for us. Oh, He loves us so much. We are Mary's little children. See through Mary's eyes the love of her Son. Oh, how Jesus loves us!


Photo of Fifth Station The Fifth Station
SIMON OF CYRENE IS FORCED
TO HELP JESUS CARRY HIS CROSS

The cross was so heavy Jesus could not move. His persecutors became angry and forced a man to help Him. The cross was so heavy the two of them could barely move it. How is our cross today? Does it seem so heavy we cannot go on? He is forever watching us. When we are suffering the greatest, He is very close to us. It is in immense suffering that we realize His great love for us. Pray for grace to do always the Father's Will. Pray for grace to grow in our knowledge and love of Jesus.


Photo of Sixth Station The Sixth Station
VERONICA WIPES THE FACE OF JESUS

Jesus' face was covered with blood. From the crowd Veronica came forward with a cloth to wipe His face. On the cloth Jesus gave to us an imprint of His bloodied face. This remains with us this day as a sign of His immense love for us. But more than any cloth, look beyond the visible consecrated host. Jesus remains with us, Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity, in the Eucharist this day, waiting and longing to be with us. Oh, how Jesus loves us!


Photo of Seventh Station The Seventh Station
JESUS FALLS THE SECOND TIME

As Jesus went on the way to Calvary, it became harder and harder to walk. The cross was becoming heavier, His body weaker and weaker. His shoulders and arms hurt so much! His head throbbed as He walked. The blood came from His body, from His head to His feet. He was covered with open wounds. He could not go any farther. He stumbled and fell. Again they poked at Him, only harder, and with such hatred they kicked Him. Such vileness in the hearts of men! His greatest agony was not the agonies of His body, but the agonies of His heart for the love He has for all His precious souls. He loved them so dearly. He loved those who persecuted Him. Oh, how Jesus loves us!


Photo of Eighth Station The Eighth Station
JESUS MEETS THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM

The women came to Jesus with their children, their tender hearts crying and wanting to comfort Him. He saw their love, their care. He saw the coldness of men's hearts for all time, the hatred, the anger, the sins, all the souls that, despite all of His sufferings and death, would be condemned to eternal damnation. He told the women to weep not for Him, but for themselves and their children. His greatest agonies were the agonies of His Most Sacred Heart. Oh, how Jesus loves us!


Photo of Ninth Station The Ninth Station
JESUS FALLS THE THIRD TIME

Jesus fell hard the third time. He was so weakened He could not go on. His body collapsed under the cross from such exhaustion! Jesus' greatest agonies were not the wounds to His body. They were the wounds He experienced to His heart. Do we not realize how much Jesus loves us? It is in meditating on His Passion and death that we will realize His immense love for us. When we fall, when we struggle, Jesus gives us the grace to get up. Jesus never gives us more than we can handle. Our strength will come from Jesus. Come to Jesus' Eucharistic Heart. He is waiting for us this day. Oh, how Jesus loves us!


Photo of Tenth Station The Tenth Station
JESUS IS STRIPPED OF HIS GARMENTS

They took Jesus to the hill to crucify Him. They angrily stripped Jesus of His garments. They took off Jesus' clothes to whip Him. They had covered Jesus' bloody wounds with a dirty purple robe. Now, total surrender-they took off Jesus' clothes. He showed us the way to surrender, always complying with the will of the Father. It is in living in His will that we will have peace and joy, and life eternal some day. Oh, how Jesus loves us!


Photo of Eleventh Station The Eleventh Station
THEY NAIL JESUS TO THE CROSS

See Mary as she holds the little Baby Jesus. See her as she washes His tender hands and feet. See her now as she watches as they pound into those same hands and feet the gigantic nails that fix Jesus to the cross.

Mary's heart was torn in her chest as they nailed His hands and feet to the cross. She asks us this day to walk the Passion with Him. See through her eyes the love He has for us. He truly was nailed to the cross. They pounded the nails into Jesus' first hand, then they stretched His body and nailed His other hand. The blood poured from these wounds, that went totally through Jesus' hands. His pain was so immense, but then they nailed His feet! We do not know what pain He suffered. For each one of us He suffered this pain.


Photo of Twelfth Station The Twelfth Station
JESUS DIES ON THE CROSS

(Silence.)

Jesus hung for three agonizing hours on the cross against the darkened sky. His greatest agonies were not the agonies of His body, but those of His Heart for the great love He has for each and every soul. He gave Himself to us. He gave His all. He hung with His arms spread in total surrender. Jesus' head was punctured; His hands and feet were nailed to the cross. He gave Himself to us. He gives Himself to us this day in the Eucharist. Jesus gives us Himself! What more do we want?

Song: I Love You Jesus...

They pierced His Heart with a lance and what flowed forth was blood and water, the sacramental life of the Church, water for Baptism and blood for the Eucharist.


Photo of Thirteenth Station The Thirteenth Station
JESUS IS TAKEN DOWN FROM THE CROSS
AND PLACED IN THE ARMS OF HIS MOTHER

They placed the lifeless body of Jesus in the arms of His most loving Mother. As she had held the little baby body in her arms, she now received His bloodied, bruised body. This is how He obeyed the Father's will. Jesus gave His life for us. The Father gave His only Son because He loves us so much. Mary, His Mother, our Mother and the Mother of the Church, is forever by His side. See Jesus in the arms of His loving Mother under the cross. This is love. Mary held His lifeless body in her arms. See through Mary's eyes the love He has for us this day. He gives Himself to us today in the Eucharist. Jesus loves us so much!


Photo of Fourteenth Station The Fourteenth Station
JESUS IS LOCKED IN THE TOMB

The enemies of Jesus rolled the stone up to the tomb and were pleased to have buried Him. Mary, outside the tomb, wept bitterly. The cold reality that He was dead! But death has no power over Jesus, for on the third day He rose, triumphant, from the tomb! We are partakers in His divine life. Death has no power over Jesus. He is with us this day. He comes to bring us life to the full. Jesus loves us so much!

  


  

December 18, 1995

Excerpt from the Mass Book

IN THE DEEPEST RECESSES OF HIS HEART

    The place Jesus took me was into the deepest recesses of His Heart. I was enveloped in His burning love. It was a red room with heat and an intense glow. I was swept away in this embrace, and I only existed in Him. The power of the Almighty God enveloped me, and I only existed in Him. There was no fear, for I was existent in this Almighty Being. My heart was wrapped in the eternal embrace of this Supreme Being. The security, the power I know was His deep presence in which I existed.

    I knew the room was red and warm. I knew His immenseness, but I felt my own completeness in Him. I did not feel little, as a speck, but elevated and empowered for I existed then in Him in a most special way.

    I was overtaken by the love of God. The fire of the Holy Spirit filled me. I was absorbed by the love of the Father, and I existed IN Him and in the deepest recesses of the Heart of Jesus. Our heaven on earth is these inner chambers of His magnificent Heart - the Heart of the Almighty God, with all the power, with omnipotence, with the fire of the love of God. He took me to the deepest chamber of this fiery Heart, and in that moment, I touched eternity, for I knew what it was to be enveloped in the deep furnace of His love. I now want to exist in this chamber of His Heart, swept away in His burning love, absorbed in my every cell with His love.

    We do not understand the fire of His love. We do not understand what it is to be absorbed by love itself. He took me to the inner, deepest chamber of His Heart, and I felt the heat and knew the presence of love itself, and there was no fear, only a feeling of completeness, omnipotence, all-embracing, penetrating love - a power indescribable in words, a saturation of my being in the presence of God, and I was as I was created to be - living in Him!

    This is how I will forever live my life, saturated with His divine life and love deep within this inner chamber of His burning Heart, living in Him as He possesses my being, and I operate with His power in me.

    Little creatures though we are, we are His, His power, His life, flowing through us. In Him, we are as the Father intended: one in Him, each one of us, dwelling in this fiery furnace of His love. With our fears quieted and our hearts empowered by His life, we live forever in Him - in the Heart of Jesus.

    Let no man separate what God has joined together. I am wed in the deepest love with my beloved Spouse, wed to the Heart of Jesus. As I am, I am one in Him. I live and I breathe in Him. He, Who is love, He Who is our all, He Who is mighty and without limits, He Who is, He Who is God and as I live, He lives in me in this world.

    I am wed to Him, and I shall not fear for He is God - one, complete, loving, God. Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in Thee. As I live, I live in Your most adorable Heart, the furnace of God's love!

end of December 18, 1995 writing

    


  

John 1: 1-18

A: PROLOGUE

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.

A man came, sent by God.
His name was John.
He came as a witness,
to bear witness to the light,
so that everyone might believe
   through him.
He was not the light,
he was to bear witness to the light.

The Word was the real light
that gives light to everyone;
he was coming into the world.
He was in the world
that had come into being through him,
and the world did not recognise him.
He came to his own
and his own people did not accept him.

But to those who did accept him
he gave power to become children of God,
to those who believed in his name
who were born not from human stock
or human desire
or human will
but from God himself.
The Word became flesh,
he lived among us,
and we saw his glory,
the glory that he has from the Father
   as only Son of the Father,
full of grace and truth.

John witnesses to him. He proclaims:
‘This is the one of whom I said:
He who comes after me
has passed ahead of me
because he existed before me.’

Indeed, from his fullness
    we have, all of us, received—
one gift replacing another,
for the Law was given through Moses,
grace and truth have come
   through Jesus Christ.
No one has ever seen God;
it is the only Son,
   who is close to the Father’s heart,
who has made him known.

  


  

John 17

The prayer of Jesus

After saying this, Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said:

Father, the hour has come:
glorify your Son
so that your Son may glorify you;
so that, just as you have given him
   power over all humanity,
he may give eternal life
   to all those you have entrusted to him.
And eternal life is this:
to know you,
the only true God,
and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
I have glorified you on earth
by finishing the work
that you gave me to do.
Now, Father, glorify me
with that glory I had with you
before ever the world existed.
I have revealed your name 
to those whom you took from the world 
   to give me.
They were yours
   and you gave them to me,
and they have kept your word.
Now at last they have recognised 
that all you have given me
   comes from you
for I have given them 
the teaching you gave to me,
and they have indeed accepted it
and know for certain
   that I came from you,
and have believed
   that it was you who sent me.
It is for them that I pray.
I am not praying for the world
but for those you have given me,
because they belong to you.
All I have is yours
and all you have is mine,
and in them I am glorified.
I am no longer in the world,
but they are in the world,
and I am coming to you. 
Holy Father,
keep those you have given me 
   true to your name,
so that they may be one like us.
While I was with them,
I kept those you had given me
   true to your name.
I have watched over them
   and not one is lost
except one who was destined to be lost,
and this was to fulfil the scriptures.
But now I am coming to you
and I say these things in the world
to share my joy with them to the full.
I passed your word on to them,
and the world hated them,
because they belong to the world
no more than I belong to the world.
I am not asking you
to remove them from the world,
but to protect them from the Evil One.
They do not belong to the world
any more than I belong to the world.
Consecrate them in the truth;
your word is truth.
As you sent me into the world,
I have sent them into the world,
and for their sake I consecrate myself
so that they too
may be consecrated in truth.
I pray not only for these
but also for those
who through their teaching
will come to believe in me.
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.

Father,
I want those you have given me
to be with me where I am,
so that they may always see my glory
which you have given me
because you loved me
before the foundation of the world.
Father, Upright One,
the world has not known you,
but I have known you,
and these have known
that you have sent me.
I have made your name known to them
and will continue to make it known,
so that the love with which you loved me
may be in them,
and so that I may be in them.

  


  

Genesis 1-2: 4

The creation of the world

In the beginning God created heaven and earth. Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind sweeping over the waters.
    God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. God saw that light was good, and God divided light from darkness. God called light ‘day’, and darkness he called ‘night’. Evening came and morning came: the first day.
    God said, ‘Let there be a vault through the middle of the waters to divide the waters in two.’ And so it was. God made the vault, and it divided the waters under the vault from the waters above the vault. God called the vault ‘heaven’. Evening came and morning came: the second day.
    God said, ‘Let the waters under heaven come together into a single mass, and let dry land appear.’ And so it was. God called the dry land ‘earth’ and the mass of waters ‘seas’, and God saw that it was good.
    God said, ‘Let the earth produce vegetation: seed–bearing plants, and fruit trees on earth, bearing fruit with their seed inside, each corresponding to its own species.’ And so it was. The earth produced vegetation: the various kinds of seed–bearing plants and the fruit trees with seed inside, each corresponding to its own species. God saw that it was good. Evening came and morning came: the third day.
    God said, ‘Let there be lights in the vault of heaven to divide day from night, and let them indicate festivals, days and years. Let them be lights in the vault of heaven to shine on the earth.’ And so it was. God made the two great lights: the greater light to govern the day, the smaller light to govern the night, and the stars. God set them in the vault of heaven to shine on the earth, to govern the day and the night and to divide light from darkness. God saw that it was good. Evening came and morning came: the fourth day.
     God said, ‘Let the waters be alive with a swarm of living creatures, and let birds wing their way above the earth across the vault of heaven.’ And so it was. God created great sea–monsters and all the creatures that glide and teem in the waters in their own species, and winged birds in their own species. God saw that it was good.God blessed them, saying, ‘Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters of the seas; and let the birds multiply on land.’ Evening came and morning came: the fifth day.
     God said, ‘Let the earth produce every kind of living creature in its own species: cattle, creeping things and wild animals of all kinds.’ And so it was.God made wild animals in their own species, and cattle in theirs, and every creature that crawls along the earth in its own species. God saw that it was good.
     God said, ‘Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild animals and all the creatures that creep along the ground.’

    God created man in the image of himself,
    in the image of God he created him,
    male and female he created them.

     God blessed them, saying to them, ‘Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven and all the living creatures that move on earth.’ God also said, ‘Look, to you I give all the seed–bearing plants everywhere on the surface of the earth, and all the trees with seed–bearing fruit; this will be your food. And to all the wild animals, all the birds of heaven and all the living creatures that creep along the ground, I give all the foliage of the plants as their food.’ And so it was. God saw all he had made, and indeed it was very good. Evening came and morning came: the sixth day.
Thus heaven and earth were completed with all their array. On the seventh day God had completed the work he had been doing. He rested on the seventh day after all the work he had been doing. God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on that day he rested after all his work of creating.
     Such was the story of heaven and earth as they were created.

  


  

IN THE BEGINNING...

  


    

1 John 1-2: 2

The Incarnate Word
and sharing with the Father and the Son

Something which has existed
   since the beginning,
which we have heard,
which we have seen with our own eyes,
which we have watched
and touched with our own hands,
the Word of life-
this is our theme.
That life was made visible;
we saw it and are giving our testimony,
declaring to you the eternal life,
which was present to the Father
and has been revealed to us.
We are declaring to you
what we have seen and heard,
so that you too may share our life.
Our life is shared with the Father
and with his Son Jesus Christ.
We are writing this to you
   so that our joy may be complete.

I: TO WALK IN THE LIGHT

This is what we have heard from him and are declaring to you:
God is light,
    and there is no darkness in him at all.
If we say that we share in God’s life
while we are living in darkness,
we are lying,
    because we are not living the truth.
But if we live in light,
as he is in light,
we have a share in another’s life,
and the blood of Jesus, his Son,
cleanses us from all sin.

First condition: to break with sin

If we say, ‘We have no sin,’
we are deceiving ourselves,
and truth has no place in us;
if we acknowledge our sins,
he is trustworthy and upright,
so that he will forgive our sins
and will cleanse us from all evil.
If we say, ‘We have never sinned,’
we make him a liar,
and his word has no place in us.

My children, I am writing this
   to prevent you from sinning;
but if anyone does sin,
we have an advocate with the Father,
Jesus Christ, the upright.
He is the sacrifice to expiate our sins,
and not only ours,
but also those of the whole world.

  


  
Revelation 12: 1-2

Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth.

  


   

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:      How do I reach you?

                            You want to keep doing everything your way?

                            I AM A HEART CONSUMED

                                WITH LOVE FOR

                                    MEN

  

     
    

  

  

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:     I want love from My precious souls.

                            I want them to love and thirst after
                                the Mass and the Eucharist. 

  

  

  

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:     I WANT LOVE !!

                        I WANT HONOR AND 
                                PRAISE!

                        I WANT HEARTS ON
                            FIRE FOR LOVE
                                OF GOD !!

   

  

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:     Children copy after their parents.
                            They copy you.
                            They copy everything you do.
                            If you knelt on your knees and prayed
                                they would copy you.
                            If you loved your Father (God the Father)
                                and prayed to Him -
                                 they would copy you.

                            Instead you give them toys and games
                                that teach them violent things.

                            You don't even know what you do
                                that is wrong, you have taught
                                others and it goes on down the
                                line - you copy, they copy -
                                you go further off -

                            I send a message and you block the
                                message I send.

                            My Blue Books are the tender love
                                letters I send you of
                                My Burning love.

  

  

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:     Here is My gift -

  

  

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:     Here is your founder

  

THROUGH HIM, WITH HIM AND IN HIM

  

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:     Here is a gift I send to My Priests

  

 

 

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:     I also want the Priestly Newsletter Book II to 
                                go to all Bishops and Jesuits.

                            Help me to do this.

                            Please help with the purchase and rent of 
                                the Virgin Mary building, My Image
                                site and that of My Mother's image to
                                help renew the Church and the world.

                            This is My Movement.

                             Here are tools I send you to help
                                renew the Church and the
                                    world.

  

  

  

December 26, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:     I want the Virgin Mary building used
                                for the purposes I have given
                                here.

                            I want the Shepherds of Christ Movement,
                                My Movement to have the Virgin Mary
                                Building to do the work I have stipulated
                                here.

                            It is not to be used for other
                                purposes desired by you.

                            Help Me spread the Prayer
                                Chapters praying for
                                the renewal of the 
                                Church and the world
                                praying for the priests.

                            Help Me with the Newsletter
                                Book II to get it in the
                                Hands of My priests.

                            Every month the rent on the building comes
                                due. It is very difficult to pay for this.

Mary speaks:     My children, help me spread the Rosary Meditations
                                We have given to my children.

                            They are from Our hearts -
                                great grace can be released
                                when you pray with these
                                rosary meditations fervently.

                            Please help spread the 
                                consecration cards

    

  

December 26, 2001 message continues

Mary speaks:     and the say daily card.

  

   

December 26, 2001 message continues

Mary speaks:     Please get my rosary meditations in
                                the schools.

                            Pray for the Imprimatur on the
                                Spanish rosary aves.

                            Pray for the Imprimatur on the
                                Rosary Meditations for Parents and Children Book
   
                             in Spanish and the 
                                Little Peoples English and
                                Spanish Rosary book.

                            I will help to teach
                                the world to pray
                                from my image site
                                in Clearwater, Florida.

  


     

Excerpt from July 15, 1998

Mary speaks: 

I am Mary your Mother. From my site in Florida, I want to teach my world to pray.


end of excerpt from July 15, 1998 message 

      


  

December 26, 2001 message continues

Mary speaks:     The story of the crucifix will soon be on a video and
                                the meditations of the rosary with Fr. Mike
                                praying the rosary, please 
                                    pray for this.    

                            I am Mary your Mother -
                                pray for the urgent intentions 
                            Spread those in the Movement and
                                those touching the Movement
                                with the Blood of Jesus.
                             Consecrate their hearts to Our
                                two Hearts, cast the devil
                                far away and ask for a special
                                outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

                            I AM MARY YOUR MOTHER

  


Pictures of Our Lady of Clearwater
and Our Lady of Guadalupe from the movie

 

 

 

 

 

 

  


 

December 26, 2001 message continues

Mary speaks:     This is a sign we give you.

  


    

Excerpt from November 4, 2001 message
 

     

      

November 4, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:  To those who pray My prayers I
                        promise the following special
                        graces:

                                 - A deeper understanding of the 
                                     Divine Mysteries through fervent
                                     recitation of the litanies.

                                 - I promise a deeper love in your heart
                                     for your God and a deeper love
                                     for your fellowmen.

                                 - Those who pray the prayers fervently
                                    will experience a deep union 
                                    in My Heart and My Mother's heart,
                                    they will be given special insights
                                    into My unfathomable love for men
                                    and experience a thirsting within
                                    themselves to want to help souls
                                    through intercessory prayer and sacrifices.

                                 - They will have a deeper love of the Mass
                                    through this deeper consecration.
                                    [consecration to Their Hearts]

                                 - They will know Me more intimately.

                                 - They will want to live their lives to 
                                    help save souls.

                                 - They will have a deeper love for the priests shepherds.
                                 - They will have a deeper love and dedication
                                    to the Church. (I founded)

                                 - They will want peace on the earth.
                                 - They will want peace in their own hearts.

                                 - You will experience a fearlessness the more
                                    you pray the Holy Spirit Novena prayers
                                    given to you.

                                 - As you meditate on the scriptures you will
                                    understand more fully the plan of
                                    the Father to lead the souls into the
                                    great Reign of My Sacred Heart.

                                 - You and all who pray the Holy Spirit Novena
                                    and the Shepherds of Christ Prayers will be
                                    united in a deep oneness with each other
                                    and the souls of the earth.

                                 - The more you pray these prayers (both sets)
                                    you will live in the truth as you
                                    dwell in Our Hearts.

                                  - You will be given gifts of the Holy Spirit.

                                  - You and your family will be protected by
                                    My Precious Blood and your families
                                    will receive special protection
                                    against satan from fervent recitation
                                    of the prayers. (the Holy Spirit Novena
                                    and the Shepherds of Christ Prayers)

                                 - I promise to take you and the members of
                                    your family in a special way
                                    into My Sacred Heart. I will lavish
                                    you in the fires of My love.

                                 - The priests and the people of the Church and the world
                                    will receive special graces from the fervent
                                    recitation of these prayers. (both sets)

                                 - I will unite My people in a deeper love
                                    from the graces granted from
                                    fervent recitation of these prayers.

                                 - I give these prayers from My image site
                                    in Florida.
                                   I appear there daily as the Sacred Heart.
                                   Some see Me, some do not, but there
                                    is a special presence there.
                                   My Mother appears there for her children.

                                 - In the five years of her apparitions many
                                    souls who have come have been
                                    given special graces of conversion.
                                    Many have been given grace to lead
                                    them into a deeper love union with
                                    God and the Blessed Virgin.

                                 - The image site in Florida has touched
                                    the world.

                                 - I outpour great grace to those who come
                                    to the site.

                                 - There are tremendous graces of healing
                                    granted to all who come.

                                 - People who come rarely leave unchanged.
                                 - The grace granted works in their lives and in
                                    their hearts, long after they have gone.

                                 - A reminder of their visit only need be given
                                    and they experience a memory of
                                    that moment.

                                I ask you to circulate the prayers I have
                                    given, the Shepherds of Christ Prayers 
                                    and the Holy Spirit Novena prayers.

                                I ask you to circulate the image [pictures].

                                The images can have a profound
                                    effect on people's hearts.

                                I ask you to circulate the videos
                                    I have given to you and to
                                    continue making these to circulate....

                                Coloring books, Blue Books, videos are
                                    available for Christmas presents.

                                Please continue to put the ads in
                                    the papers.

                                Please put the ad with the exposed
                                    Eucharist in the Catholic Papers
                                    so people will know how
                                    to acquire a prayer manual.

end of excerpt from November 4, 2001

          


                

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   During the Rosary and 6:20 Prayers
November 5, 2001

December 17, 2001
5 years since Mary appeared
Prayers 6:20 PM & Procession

    

(Right next to each other #19 & #20
on the roll)

     Mary speaks:            

      My dear children,
          I have appeared now for five years from
        my image site in Clearwater, Florida.
        Special graces will be given for all those
        coming on this anniversary of my five year
        appearance and praying devoutly.
        My Son Jesus has appeared here. We call you
        to come and to pray for the priests, the Church
        and the world.
          A special prayer vigil with procession
        will begin at  6:20. Other prayers are prayed
        all through the day beneath Mary's image.
        The 6:20 prayers have been prayed beneath
        my image since July 5, 1998 and throughout
        the world. My Son Jesus wants you to come
        and to sing praise to your God. He wishes
        you to come and gather on this day.
        Oh my children, I love you so much. There
        is so much evil in the world. My children my
        Son Jesus wants you to come and pray.
                                   I am Mary your Mother

Mary appeared in Clearwater
on December 17, 1996

     Jesus speaks:       

      Oh My beloved children,
          Come to Me. Bring the little ones. Prayers
       are held daily at 6:20. I want the little ones to
       come and see the gifts God has given you here.
       My little ones must pray. You must pray. There
       will be prayers throughout the days as usual. Have
       rosary meditation books and rosaries available.
       Pictures for all who come.
           Bring your petitions to Me. I will grant you
       special graces for your heartfelt prayers.
           Oh I love you so much. Please come. Pray -
       help make reparation to Our Hearts. Have prayer
       sheets and coloring books available. Morning
       Offering cards (Say daily). Have videos of the
       Mass and Nursing home videos available.
           Encourage all to pray the prayers, to pray the
       rosary and to consecrate their hearts.
           Have cards "I give my heart to Jesus and Mary
       available."
      This is a special day to heaven. This is a special
  place. Come and pray for the days before and after
  also if you wish. The big celebration is December 17,
  2001 at 6:20 call for details. I ask you to come to Me.
  I love you so much. Please pray for your world.
                                             I am Jesus your Savior.
  

November 5, 2001
Jesus' face

   
  

I love you, I love you, I love you,
                     Jesus
  

                   


              

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