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February 1, 1999

February 1, 1997 message from the Apostles Manual (pp. 55-57)

February 1, 1997
Message given through Rita Ring
First Saturday
Title: My Gift is My Heart: A Tool for Greater Intimacy with Jesus

Jesus: My Dear Beloved Ones,

I am asking you for greater intimacy with Me in order to accomplish this task. I am asking you daily in the hour that you spend with Me, preferably before the tabernacle, or in your room, in this intimate hour, that you write to Me a love letter. For 10 minutes of the hour, I am asking you to answer the question--how do I feel in my heart about My beloved Jesus? In this love letter you will talk to Me as your most intimate friend. You will share with Me the sores you feel in your heart. You will share with Me your joy, your praise, your sorrow, your weak points, your strong points. You will focus on Me, as your Divine Healer. You will keep these letters to Me in a notebook entitled, "My Love Letters to Jesus." I then will ask you to open up the Blue Books messages which are My love letters to you. You will then read My love letters to you. You will continue talking to Me for l0 minutes about your letter to Me and My letter to you. At the same time I ask you to continue publishing all the love letters I have given to man.

This is the tool that I give to you that you will become My most intimate lover and I say to you, "To be an intimate lover, you must spend time being intimately involved. This time will become a most cherished half hour daily."

When you go to Mass and Holy Communion, always pray the Prayer Before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. The Mass is the greatest love affair between God and man. I ask you during the Mass to continue your love affair with Me as you give yourself to Me in complete love. It is in the time after Communion, in the 20 minutes spent alone with Me, that we will share the most intimate love secrets of our hearts. We will be joined in such oneness with each other. I am calling you to circulate this letter immediately for you will soon see how urgent the situation in the world has become. The Father will not tolerate the sinfulness of men. Your day will be turned to more days of prayer because of this situation.

I am Jesus.

Messenger: We do not want to give deeply within ourselves because we may get hurt, so we remain closed because we are afraid.

Jesus: This will teach you to give yourself deeply to Me. I was wounded with the deepest wounds and I continued to love.

Messenger: He was opened up raw, jabbed in the wounds and He still loved We are wounded by so many love relationships, parents, children, relatives, friends. We carry around in our hearts a life of disappointments, we know pain. We think, if we do not open ourselves, we will not be wounded. If the flower does not open, it remains a bud, to be in full bloom, it must open.

Jesus: I will be the King and center of your heart. Before writing the letter to Me, pray the Holy Spirit Prayer and the consecration prayers.

This method of communication with Me will help heal the wounds in your heart. I am giving to you several Mass Books. Study these books so you will participate in this celebration and receive the greatest outpouring of My grace.

I give Myself to you in Communion and I am not recognized or even talked to by many souls. How this wounds My Heart. I give you Myself completely and I am treated as if My gift is nothing. How would you like to open yourself up to the deepest part of your heart, give yourself as a gift to others and be rejected? How would it feel to share yourself as you have never shared before, give yourself completely and be ignored? I give you Myself and you treat it as if it is nothing.

Messenger: The sun is covered with the clouds many times. Every day is a sunny day when our hearts are one with Him. Our days must be spent in oneness with Him. We must always be living with His light shining in our hearts. Writing an intimate letter to Jesus every day and following this procedure, will make Him our most intimate lover. We must be intimate with Him to have an intimate relationship with Him. We must give ourselves to Him.

Jesus: I am calling you to a deep, intimate relationship with Me. All of you will not be able to do all I have listed. The more you follow this plan, the deeper your relationship will become with Me.

1) Morning Offering
2) Daily Mass and Communion
3) One hour of private time with Me
4) Praying the Rosary
5) Continual consecration, praying the Holy Spirit Prayer and the Consecration Prayer from the prayer cards.

My beloved shepherds, you will give Me the burning love I desire. You will lead others to this great gift of My Heart. Many will be led home to My Heart. My Heart will reign. I will be King and center of many hearts through this message and the letters I write to you in God's Blue Book. The Father is giving to you His plan through these messages in God's Blue Book and Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. I am the Teacher. I am the Word. I have spoken to you in plain talk. My Heart will reign and My Mother's heart will triumph. This is the beginning. I give to you this message on first Saturday as a great gift to My Mother.

You must circulate this message. It is My plan for greater intimacy with your most loving God.

Messenger: How do I feel in my heart about my beloved Jesus.

I love You, Jesus, present here in the tabernacle. I am so grateful You are with me here. It is such a great gift that You give Yourself to us in the Eucharist and that You remain here for us in the tabernacle. Jesus You give us so much when we come to the tabernacle.

I have learned to love You so much from these moments alone with You here. My Jesus, it is in these moments I have received such graces of knowing You and loving You more and more. You have shared Yourself with me, not always in words, just in my being with You and knowing You. And when I went to Mass and read Your word, the more I grew in my intimacy with You, the more I knew You in Your word. To know You Jesus is to know Your word, for You are the Word. I was so moved every time I read or heard Your word because You have revealed Yourself so intimately to me before the tabernacle and at the Mass and after the reception of the Eucharist when You are in me so intimately and You implant knowledge of Yourself on my heart and soul.

Jesus, I am so sorry for all those who do not treasure this great gift You give to us in the Blessed Sacrament. I am sorry for all those who do not think of You all through the day.

I want to make reparation to Your adorable Heart for all those who do not love You and Mary and for all those who do not realize the gift of Your pure Hearts.

Oh, my God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I want to worship and love You and thank You and unite every moment of my life to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. At every moment, united in great oneness to the holy Hearts of purity of the Blessed Virgin and the Sacred Heart, I will offer a most pleasing sacrifice to the Father in every act I do, united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass celebrated throughout the world. I want this oneness with the others in the world doing the same thing so that we are a body continually worshipping and praising, knowing and thanking God for His gifts to us and petitioning Him for all our needs, for the souls in purgatory, and the souls of the earth so that the Sacred Heart will be the King and Center of all Hearts and the Virgin Mary the Immaculate Queen of their Hearts.

I pray further for all our intentions. I pray that we reach more priests with the priestly newsletter. I pray that more prayer chapters are started, praying for the renewal of the Church and the World. I love the souls and I pray for the souls He gave His life for and shed His Blood for, all these children of Mary, the ones whom she loves so much.

Oh Jesus, my letter to You has turned into a letter that You wish to give to all so they can pray for these things so dear to Your Heart.

I love You so much, my Jesus. I love You with the greatest love. I am sorry for all of us on the earth who have offended our beloved God and have abused the gift of You in the Blessed Sacrament.

Please grant the grace to help us obtain the funds to reach the people with the consecration and Your prayers and Your words of love.

Oh Jesus, I truly adore and worship You here and love to be with You in the Blessed Sacrament.

Jesus, I long for the Mass and cannot wait to serve You in the Mass by offering up the sacrifice, giving You great love and honor and thanksgiving, and knowing that through the Mass You will shower grace on the beloved souls and help to change hearts more and more to hearts of love.

My God, thank You for this Holy Sacrifice of the Mass You give to me. I want to savor every word and be so united to my God in every word of the Mass. The Mass is so beautiful, every word is so beautiful, it makes my heart sing. Please give all men the grace to unite in the greatest oneness through the Mass and the Morning Offering.

Peace will abound and the floodgates of heaven will open and grace will pour out and mercy from our God. We must beg Jesus to intercede for us to the Father in the Mass for all souls throughtout the world.

Lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us and grant us peace.

Jesus I adore, I worship and I love You, come and dwell in me ever more deeply.

In order to be especially united to our beloved God in the Mass, our President has asked us to pray the Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass upon rising and retiring in order 7to ask to be united to the Mass all over the world, all day and all night as we sleep, petitioning our God and giving Him honor and glory and thanksgiving.

Please say the Morning Offering every day. There is a shortened form for children which can be used by adults. Saying the Morning Offering connects us to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass all day.

We must pray fervently. Please pray for us that we will be able to do what Our Lord and Our Lady have asked us to do. Please help us through your prayers.

Jesus wished the writing of February 1, 1997, to begin this writing, followed by this letter of mine to Him two years later.

Today we end this writing with the Prayer Before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

There is a very holy family which we owe great thanks to for all they have done to bring these messages to you.

Today the grandma of this family will be buried. She had a very holy death, but the loss will be shared by all the family. We ask you to pray for this family. Call them Harold's family. It is because of their love, devotion and sacrifice that these messages appear here today. Please keep this family in your prayers. Please pray for the people who work endlessly to get these messages on the Internet to you. There is a very small group of dedicated people doing this every day. The messages have all been checked by a competent Catholic theologian for theological accuracy.

Jesus speaks:
I wish the rosary of February 1, 1995, to end the message, February 1, 1999. I have requested this be placed before the question.

ROSARY MEDITATIONS
FEBRUARY 1, 1995
THE JOYFUL MYSTERIES

The Annunciation

1. Messenger: The Angel Gabriel appeared to Mary and asked her to be the mother of Jesus.
2. Mary always complied with the Will of the Father. She said, "…let it happen to me as you have said." (Lk 1:38)
3. Mary was filled with the Holy Spirit, and the Word became flesh.
4. There was always great intimacy between Jesus and His mother. From the first moment of conception she felt the life of Jesus, Son of God, grow within her womb.
5. The child Jesus is with us this day. He is in our brothers. He is in our children. If the child Jesus were here and we were to hold Him, to talk to and be with Him, we would treat Him with such joy and such kindness! Jesus is in our brothers. Jesus is in our children. Jesus is here this day. Do we treat our brothers, our children, one another, with the same kindness that we would the child Jesus?
6. The invisible Jesus was inside of Mary's womb. He was there in His divinity and His humanity. He was God from the first moment of conception. The invisible Jesus remains with us today in the tabernacle. He is present there in His divinity and humanity. We do not see Him, but He is no less present in the tabernacle than the day Mary carried Him in her womb.
7. God is Love! He calls out to us to come to Him, to be close to Him. He truly waits for us in the tabernacle. He is a prisoner awaiting those He loves, the precious souls. So many forget Him day after day while He, the Son of God, waits and waits to share His love with the precious souls that He came to this earth to save.
8. He calls out to us, "Do you not have one hour to watch with Me, the Son of God? I, God, Who came to this earth and was born a human for love of you! I call out to you this day. Take Me seriously! I am truly here, no less present than on the day that Mary carried Me in her womb, and I wait for you with a Heart that is overflowing with divine love and divine life. Can you say no to this divine love that I want to outpour to you?"
9. It was in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary that the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus was formed. Jesus took on our human nature out of great love for us.
10. Jesus was carried in Mary's womb. Her womb was a temple to hold the precious Child. She is the Mother of God!

Song between decades: Ave, ave, ave, Maria. Ave, ave, ave, Maria.

The Visitation

1. Messenger: The angel had told Mary that her cousin Elizabeth had conceived a child. Mary made haste to the hill country to visit her.
2. Upon Mary's arrival at Elizabeth's house, Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and cried out with a loud voice, "Of all women you are the most blessed, and blessed is the fruit of your womb." (Lk 1:42)
3. "Why should I be honoured with a visit from the mother of my Lord?" (Lk 1:43) Usually the servant goes to the master. But Mary, with the Almighty God within her womb, went to visit Elizabeth.
4. Jesus waits for us this day. He is God and He waits in the tabernacle for us to come and be with Him. He comes to us in the Eucharist. He is the Almighty God and He waits for mere humans to come and share His love.
5. We receive so much love from God! The Father loved us so much that He sent His only begotten Son into this world so that we might be saved. Jesus waits this very day for us to come and be with Him. It is out of great love that the Master waits for us.
6. When Mary and Jesus arrived at Elizabeth's house, the child in Elizabeth's womb leapt for joy. John, who was to announce the good news that Jesus had come to this earth, even before his birth leapt with joy in the womb of his mother at the presence of Jesus in Mary's womb.
7. Should we not leap for joy? Jesus Christ, the Son of God, born of the Virgin Mary, waits for us this day, no less present than the day He was carried in Mary's womb to the home of her cousin Elizabeth. We take His presence so lightly! We do not see, so we do not realize that God, in His humanity and divinity, is truly present in the tabernacle and waiting for us this very day.
8. Mary was filled with the Holy Spirit and cried out, with a loud voice, her Magnificat:
   "My soul proclaims
       the greatness of the Lord
   and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour;" (Lk 1:46,47)
9. "…because he has looked upon
       the humiliation of his servant.
   Yes, from now onwards
       all generations will call me blessed," (Lk 1:48)
10. "…for the Almighty
        has done great things for me.
    Holy is his name,"

Song between decades: Ave, ave, ave Maria....

The Birth of Jesus

1. Messenger: The Father bridges the gap between divinity and humanity in the person of Jesus Christ.
2. Jesus came into this world. Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of the Father, equal in every way to the Father, came into this world as a little baby, a helpless little baby. If we realized the true majesty of God, if we saw Him in all His majesty, we could not even stand to look at Him. But Jesus, clothed in flesh, comes as a helpless little baby, born in a little crib in a stable in Bethlehem!
3. Do we realize the immense love that the Father has for us that He sent His only begotten Son into this world as a human in the person of Jesus Christ?
4. Jesus, a divine Person, unites His human nature and His divine nature in His Person.
5. Who are we that God loves us so much that He would take on a human nature!
6. We become brothers of God!
7. He comes, the Son of God, in such quiet and such poverty! There is not a roll of drums or a blare of trumpets. He comes in such quiet and a star shines on Him. Is this not how it is when we receive Him in the Eucharist? We ascend the altar. There is not a roll of drums. There is not a blare of trumpets. Quietly we approach the altar and we truly receive God! He comes to us and enters our body in such love! Who are we that God remains with us this day in such love and comes to us to be so closely united to us!?
8. We see the consecrated Host. But within the consecrated Host is truly God, in His divinity and His humanity.
9. We look for those things that are visible. But are not the true treasures found in those things that are invisible? The reality is that this is God's world! We see the things in front of our face and we do not realize how the world of Jesus and Mary truly is. We do not realize how they are with us this very day. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, remains with us this day in His divinity and humanity in the Eucharist. We are surrounded by His presence in one another. He dwells and lives in each one of us when we are in the state of grace. In every blade of grass, the life that is there comes from God. Yet we are so blind! We see so little! Holy Spirit, open up our eyes. Where we are blind, let us see. Let us see more and more the invisible world. Let us know more and more the presence of God as it is all around us. Help us to see Jesus in each other. Help us to be more aware of Jesus Christ, who is truly present with us in the tabernacle.
10. Open our eyes to see beyond what is visible, Lord. Holy Spirit, help us to see beyond the consecrated Host and see Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Song between decades: Ave, ave, ave, Maria...

The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple

1. Messenger: The Holy Spirit told Simeon that he would not die until He saw the child of God. The Holy Spirit led Him into the Temple. Jesus, Mary and Joseph came to the Temple and the old man was overjoyed at the sight of the child Jesus. He held Him with such joy in his arms and said that now he was ready to die for he had seen God.
2. Holy Spirit, enkindle in us the fire of Your love so we may see more clearly Jesus Christ, Who is with us this very day. So that we may see that He is God and, out of great love for each one of us, remains with us, waits for us, longs for us, and wants us to open our hearts wide so that He may enter in. Remove the blinders from our eyes, dear Holy Spirit, and lead us ever closer to intimacy with Jesus Christ, our beloved Savior.
3. Song: Come Holy Ghost, Creator blest, and in our hearts take up Thy rest. Come with Thy grace and heavenly aid to fill the hearts which Thou hast made, to fill the hearts which Thou hast made.
4. Simeon told Joseph and Mary of the great sufferings that Mary and Jesus would have to undergo and he said to Mary, "and a sword will pierce your soul too..." (Lk 2:35)
5. Think of how it would be for Mary to look at her small child Jesus and know that He would experience great suffering. From this point on a sword pierced Mary's Heart. Each time that she beheld her child she remembered the prophecy of Simeon and she suffered.
6. And how Mary suffered! The swords that pierced her Heart so many times through Jesus' life! The sword that pierced her Heart on the way to Calvary as she peered into the eyes of her beloved Son, that gaze that shows to us the great intimacy between the Son and His mother, that Heart that knew her Son so well!
7. Her Heart was pierced with a sword as she stood beneath His cross and watched Him suffer in such anguish for three agonizing hours. The precious Child that she had held in her arms in the Temple when Simeon told her, "and a sword will pierce your soul too..." (Lk 2:35)
8. Song: I rocked Him as a baby, I fed Him as a child. I heard Him call my name out in the night. I helped Him take His first step, and I cried when I heard His first words. I wish they all could see through a mother's eyes.
9. Mary, just as you presented the child Jesus in your arms in the temple, tuck us into the Heart of Jesus and present us to our loving Father so that we may be ever closer and closer to the Heart of Jesus and the Father. And lead us closer to your beloved Spouse, the Holy Spirit.
10. Holy Spirit, the more we unite with Mary, our mother, transform us more and more into the image of Jesus and lead us ever closer to the Father.

Song between decades: Ave, ave, ave, Maria…

The Finding of Jesus in the Temple

1. Messenger: When Jesus was twelve years old, He was taken up to the Temple for the feast of Passover.
2. When it was over, Mary and Joseph left Jerusalem but the child Jesus remained there.
3. They had gone a day's journey before they realized that the child Jesus had been left behind.
4. With great sorrow in their hearts they returned and searched for the child Jesus.
5. They found Him in the temple where He was teaching the doctors.
6. Jesus, as you taught the doctors in the temple, teach us Your divine truths. Holy Spirit, open our hearts so that we may more and more receive Your gifts to know, love and understand God so that we might grow in greater love and knowledge of our beloved God!
7. And the Holy Spirit came upon them and filled their hearts full of wisdom and knowledge and joy to know more and more the divine truths that the Savior came to give us. His ever burning Heart remains with us this day, this Heart that wants to give to us such love, such life! He imparts this life to us abundantly in the Eucharist whereby He feeds our life. When we come to the Eucharist, He outpours this life, this life of grace. He wants to give us His very life, His Body, His Blood, to nurture and feed our life, and we balk! We stumble. We wander around and complain! And this good God, Who came to this earth and was born a human, gave His flesh and blood and died for us and rose on the third day to give us His life, remains with us this day with His very own flesh and blood to feed this life! He gives us His Word to feed us and we take it so lightly! He calls out ever so gently in His tender voice and with His burning Heart. He calls out to us and says, "Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest!" But in our blindness we turn away and we do not realize the true treasure that is here! This is the Son of God Who remains with us this day, truly present, the same as the day He was in the Temple, the same as the day He hung on the cross, the same as the day He rose from the tomb and ascended into heaven! And He calls out in a gentle voice, with a burning Heart, "My dear children, I long for your love. Open up your hearts to Me. I am the Son of God! I have all the power! You cannot in your foolish ways do anything without Me!"
8. Song: I come to you with greatest love. I am your loving Savior. I am your God, I died for you. I come to you this day.
9. Dear Mary, if we ever lose our way from the Most Sacred Heart of your Son, lead us back quickly.
   Song: O burning Heart, O Love divine. How sweet You are to me. I see the Host, I know You are here to love and care for me
10. Song: Give me Your Heart, O Jesus. Give me a heart like Yours. Teach me to love You with this new heart. Oh, I know little of how to love You. Create in me, O precious Savior, this loving heart!

A Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

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

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

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

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

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

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

The following Imprimatur applies only to the above prayer, not to the other writings in this message.

Question for married couples and others in intimate relationships:

Q:  How do I feel my relationship with you has helped me to love Jesus and others more?

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