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Given December 9, 2008
Obedience as we ask for in the
Our Father —
Horses at the gate — that run to win —
not horses that don't run — they do not win — scamper
As we dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary
we will live in oneness obeying the Father's will —
Mary is the Queen of Peace — Mary under the cross —
suffered, but was in perfect peace —
Mary held Jesus' lifeless body in the Pieta — her
suffering great — in perfect peace
Not saying words — I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you in
love.
meaning it — that we want to obey God
We want to run the race — under God
doing it for God
The devil presses on people to be aggressive for his evil
scam —
rush to do something evil
Mary:
My peace plan
(1) conversion
(2) giving your heart to Jesus' Heart and
My Immaculate Heart
(3) Pray the Rosary — meditating on
the life of Jesus and My Life —
Jesus is the New Adam
I am the New Eve —
(4) Praying for the priests, the Church
and the world
(5) Reparation to God
Reparation to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary
Prayer services 5th Clearwater
13th China
Retreats in China and Clearwater
(6) First Saturday devotion
(7) Reception of the Sacraments and Adoration
(8) Being Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus
(9) Living by the Word
(10) Prayers Jesus gave Fr. Carter
(11) Holy Spirit Novena
(12) Greater intimacy with God
The Japanese that attacked at Pearl Harbor —
planned, practiced —
Where there was their will to conquer and
to disarm — to win over the United States
They were driven
They believed they could do it
How are we in building the Father's
Kingdom?
How are we in helping to bring about
the Reign of the Sacred Heart and
Triumph of Mary's heart?
How about fighting with me for
this era of peace Mary
promised at Fatima?
Fighting and giving ourselves really to the
pure and sinless Hearts of New Adam and
New Eve.
Where there is a will there is a way.
Help us.
Mary by day |
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You may not do evil to
bring good out of it —
Pray to the Sacred Heart
We may want to be good and pray
for the grace to be good —
go to confession — a good confession
and God gives us a grace
but the choice is there —
Will I continue sinning out of
my past habits and desires
Will I choose what God wants —
God gives us grace
God sends people to us, but
we say no many times to
God's grace
Deuteronomy 30: 19
I have set before you life and death, the
blessing and the curse.
Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live,
There are movie stars all over
the world who have
much beauty and talents and
fame, money, recognition,
but are so empty inside —
What happens when we don't
live in our heart —
seeking the spiritual
things — the way God
intended —
Another person can get a
tremendous grace and
cooperate with that grace
and their lives are changed —
It is grace —
God can give us grace to be good —
but we have a free
will
Deuteronomy 30: 19-20
Today, I call heaven and earth to witness against you: I am offering you life or death, blessing or curse. Choose life, then, so that you and your descendants may live, in the love of Yahweh your God, obeying his voice, holding fast to him; for in this your life consists, and on this depends the length of time that you stay in the country which Yahweh swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that he would give them.’
Our Lord tells us many travel
a wide road,
but we must follow the
narrow gate —
Matthew 7: 13-14
‘Enter by the narrow gate, since the road that leads to destruction is wide and spacious, and many take it; but it is a narrow gate and a hard road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
When I am lethargic and don't
do what God wants of me — I
am making a choice
God calls us and we are to
respond according to His
will in love —
God gives us talents to build His
Kingdom
We are commissioned in
baptism to act as the
Father wants
Jesus sweat blood so we would
be saved, but we must
live to love and serve Him and
follow His way —
God has called us, given us talents
to help build His Kingdom
We have just so many days here —
To try others because we are to
do a certain act and not do
what is needed when it
is our job is not
right —
It is choosing to not do what we
are supposed to
Do we choose life or death —
Do we give love to God by doing
the Father's will —
Are we trying to do God's will —
willingly in the Spirit —
or are we sitting and doing nothing —
making people wait for us
who hold what they need
to do God's work —
Satan wants the people to block
God's work —
Satan is an abuser —
he tries and he tries and he tries
a soul and he wants them
to finally give in
But he doesn't give up —
he presses
on a person - provoking —
he will continue until
he can tempt them to sin —
if they will give in
People can act for satan —
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Living in the Spirit is not giving
into the devil —
One is saturated more and more with
God's grace —
The Father, Son and Holy Spirit live in
the baptized graced soul
most abundantly the more
they are filled with God's grace and
the Holy Spirit fills them —
the spirit of such a soul is
willing — cooperative — going
forth with enthusiasm to do
God's will —
LIFE IN the SPIRIT
Where as the soul choosing to
hurt others doing God's work —
can be passive-aggressive —
sitting on a pity pot after
their attack because they
feel bad for their evil actions —
expecting to suck the energy from
a holy soul
A person acting for satan — is dark —
provoking, causing disharmony,
laughing at others suffering
for their evil, discord —
disorder
They block the work others are
doing — they become more and
more enslaved to satan who
counsels them
The baptized soul filled with light - is
filled when they go to the sacraments
The Holy Spirit moves in them
They are not willful seeking dominance
for themselves
They are focused on God's will and
They live in the Spirit of God
They are willing to serve
There is energy
There is love — vibrancy —
They live for God not selfish for
themselves
The selfish person is trying to
prove — they are worth
admiring — they are to
be honored — respected —
they want the top seat for
themselves
they manipulate or try to
manipulate others doing
good to be dominant for
dominance sake —
a weakness from the garden
The devil is counseling them —
to hold back needed materials
for control —
to get control with money
to keep secrets —
God is calling us to be children
of the light building His
Kingdom
Knowing the purity of the Hearts of
Jesus and Mary
Living in Their pure and holy Hearts
A willing spirit inside loving God —
Obeying the commandments of God
WILLING —
LIFE IN the SPIRIT
God wants harmony
People who do unpredictable things
in an isolated manner and
say
in secret
SURPRISE
work a path like this
But the act isn't enough —
the devil then uses their actions
if they continue to operate for
him to cause confusion —
make those over them look weak
because they try to deal with
the misbehavior
The devil wants confusion
The devil attacks structure by
people he tries to use to
seek dominance for
dominance sake
ie — God gave us the commandments
to obey —
People can make fun of Jesus
People can disobey the commandments
and they are relativists —
that means — this is my truth
and you have your truth and
that's okay
That isn't okay
Jesus is the way, the truth and the
life
Did you notice - even with children —
if they were caught stealing
a cookie out of the cookie
jar — they can lie —
children must be taught to not lie —
It doesn't feel good when you lie
to cover things up
But after 40 years of lying our
conscience can become
uninformed consciences
When we do something wrong —
the holy soul admits it —
they say they are sorry for
they want the truth in
them
John 16: 13-15
However, when the Spirit of truth comes
he will lead you to the complete truth,
since he will not be speaking
of his own accord,
but will say only what he has been told;
and he will reveal to you
the things to come.
He will glorify me,
since all he reveals to you
will be taken from what is mine.
Everything the Father has is mine;
that is why I said:
all he reveals to you
will be taken from what is mine.
When people do bad acts — they
are seldom finished —
many then go for weeks, years
months — punishing others
to prove what they did
was wrong — was right —
(a wrong act is wrong)
That is what the devil wants —
He wants to wreck marriages —
He wants to wreck institutions
He wants people to give up their
vocation —
because they want to be
right when they sin —
and they then hurt others more with
lies and punishment
The devil wants this punishment
for those telling the truth
and living in the truth —
so he presses on people
who sin (because they
do not choose life) then
he gets them to try to punish
the just man for their
wicked deeds
A person sinning is sinning —
Provoking others
Holding back needed information
Controlling for a person not in
charge
Is how the devil works in
marriages, churches,
schools, institutions —
wherever there is to be
Relationship
The devil can attack using the
weakness of a wounded human
nature — and the person gives in
to their weak human nature
because of seeking dominance for
dominance sake, jealousy,
anger, envy, lust, slothfulness
gluttony —
We are to be pure like Mary
and Jesus — the New Adam and
the New Eve
Jesus is the way, the truth
and the life
An uninformed conscience
comes from choosing evil — it
becomes easier to do evil
acts —
Vices are habits
We must pray for virtues of
prudence, temperance, justice,
fortitude —
these act as a unit —
We beg God for the grace to see
so we do not give into vices —
We go to the Eucharist
We do adoration
We go to confession
When we go to the sacraments worthily
we are filled with His life
in us
We live a grace filled life
Life in the Spirit
Willing
We are struggling to become more
like God
old habits
weakness of will
We seek to be more and more in the image and
likeness of God
We live a deeper life of consecration —
We go to the Immaculate Heart
of Mary, and we know the
Holy Spirit forms us
more and more in the image
and likeness of God
as children of light —
not darkness we come forth
Mary appeared in Clearwater —
sparkling like the sun —
to spread this Consecration to
her heart and the Heart of
her Son Jesus so we would come
forth children of light -
likened more and more to Jesus
She was covered with light
in Clearwater
She appeared to remind us of
our covenant with God
Genesis 9: 12-17
‘And this’, God said, ‘is the sign of the covenant which I now make between myself and you and every living creature with you for all ages to come: I now set my bow in the clouds and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I gather the clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds, I shall recall the covenant between myself and you and every living creature, in a word all living things, and never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all living things. When the bow is in the clouds I shall see it and call to mind the eternal covenant between God and every living creature on earth, that is, all living things.’
‘That’, God told Noah, ‘is the sign of the covenant I have established between myself and all living things on earth.’
Fr. Carter got this message
Excerpt from Tell My People
The Holy Spirit
Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people to pray daily to the Holy Spirit. They are to pray for an increase in His gifts. My people must realize that the Holy Spirit comes to transform them. The Spirit desires to transform you more and more according to My image. Those who are docile to His touch become increasingly shaped in My likeness. He performs this marvel within Mary's Immaculate Heart. The more one dwells in My Mother's Heart, the more active are the workings of the Spirit. The Spirit leads Mary to place you within My own Heart. In both Our Hearts, then, your transformation continues. The more you are formed after My own Heart, the more I lead you to the bosom of My Father. Tell My people all this. Tell them to pray daily for a greater appreciation of these wondrous gifts. I am Lord and Master. All who come to My Heart will be on fire to receive the gifts of the Spirit in ever greater measure! I love and bless My people!"
Reflection: The Holy Spirit is given to us to fashion us ever more according to the likeness of Jesus. And the more we are like Jesus, the more Jesus leads us to the Father. Do we, each day, pray to the Holy Spirit to be more open to His transforming influence? Do we strive each day to grow in union with Mary? The greater our union with our Mother, the spouse of the Holy Spirit, the greater is the transforming action of the Holy Spirit within us.
end of excerpt
July 31, 1994
Words of Jesus to Members
of Shepherds of Christ Associates:
"My beloved priest-companion, I intend to use the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the movement, Shepherds of Christ Associates, in a powerful way for the renewal of My Church and the world.
"I will use the newsletter and the chapters of Shepherds of Christ Associates as a powerful instrument for spreading devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart.
"I am calling many to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. To all of them I will give great blessings. I will use them as instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy Spirit."
- Message from Jesus to Father Edward J. Carter, S.J., Founder, as given on July 31, 1994,
feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)
Do you say the words of the
consecration to the 2 Hearts —
You must live it —
Mary said at Fatima
Conversion
Do we talk about it and
don't change
Consecration to the 2 Hearts
means doing the will of
the Father
WILLINGLY IN
LOVE
serving God
Look at Mary
Look at China
There is peace in the pieta
resignation to God's will —
How do we give into satan —
pressing down —
We must have faith and love doing
God's will — struggle in peace —
We want to be better —
We want the Holy Spirit to help
us to be willing in serving
God as Mary was under
the cross —
holding Jesus under the cross
We know the prayer
the Our Father
Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
God is our Father
We want His will to be done
on earth as it is in heaven
We are the adopted sons of
God, but we say
Our Father —
God's name is sacred —
Look how we act today
Jesus is truly present in the
Eucharist
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