February 10, 2005 message continues

Messenger:        Two and 1/2 years later Mary
                                appeared on the building

                            Fr. Carter wrote the Newsletter
                                the last 6 years of the
                                second millennium at the
                                direction of Jesus.

Messenger:       At the last business day of the
                                second millennium we
                                buy the Virgin Mary building   
                                Fr. Carter dies   

                        I am the only messenger for Shepherds of Christ.
                            Jesus runs the Movement for
                            4 years.

                            10 year anniversary
                                Fr. Lou accepts position of
                                    editing the Newsletter

Messenger:        Newsletter

                            The Pope, the Eucharist, the Church
                                    the Virgin Mary

January 2, 1999

Mary speaks:  I am Our Lady of Snows. I come to cover the earth with a soft white blanket of my love.

I come to bring peace to the earth. I tell you to let go of the anxiety in your heart and experience my peace and His love.

I am your heavenly Mother. I come to hold you and caress you and take you to my Immaculate Heart.

Messenger:      Mosaic

                         Mary said a blanket

                         World at War <——> Fatima

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

136. THE FOURTH DAY

        A MEDITATION ON TWO STANDARDS

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

PRAYER.   The usual preparatory prayer.

window at a former Jesuit Seminary

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

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

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

FIRST PART

THE STANDARD OF SATAN

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

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

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

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

SECOND PART

THE STANDARD OF CHRIST

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

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

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

146. THIRD POINT.   . . .
   

end of excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

Excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima

by Father Carter, S.J.

Fatima: The Message

The Spirituality of Fatima

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Genesis Chapter 3

Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, 'Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?' The woman answered the snake, 'We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, "You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death." ' Then the snake said to the woman, 'No! You will not die! God knows in fact that the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good from evil.' The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was enticing for the wisdom that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realised that they were naked. So they sewed fig-leaves together to make themselves loin-cloths.

The man and his wife heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. But Yahweh God called to the man. 'Where are you?' he asked. 'I heard the sound of you in the garden,' he replied. 'I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.' 'Who told you that you were naked?' he asked. 'Have you been eating from the tree I forbade you to eat?' The man replied, 'It was the woman you put with me; she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.' Then Yahweh God said to the woman, 'Why did you do that?' The woman replied, 'The snake tempted me and I ate.'

Then Yahweh God said to the snake, 'Because you have done this,

    Accursed be you
    of all animals wild and tame!
    On your belly you will go
    and on dust you will feed
    as long as you live.
    I shall put enmity
    between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring and hers;
    it will bruise your head
    and you will strike its heel.'

    To the woman he said:

    I shall give you intense pain
        in childbearing,
    you will give birth to your children
        in pain.
    Your yearning will be for your husband,
    and he will dominate you.

To the man he said, 'Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat,

    Accursed be the soil because of you!
    Painfully will you get your food from it
    as long as you live.
    It will yield you brambles and thistles,
    as you eat the produce of the land.
    By the sweat of your face
    will you earn you food,
    until you return to the ground,
    as you were taken from it.
    For dust you are
    and to dust you shall return.

The man named his wife 'Eve' because she was the mother of all those who live. Yahweh God made tunics of skins for the man and his wife and clothed them. Then Yahweh God said, 'Now that the man has become like one of us in knowing good from evil, he must not be allowed to reach out his hand and pick from the tree of life too, and eat and live for ever!' So Yahweh God expelled him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he had been taken. He banished the man, and in front of the garden of Eden he posted the great winged creatures and the fiery flashing sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.

     

Genesis 7: 11-24

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, and on the seventeenth day of the month, that very day all the springs of the great deep burst through, and the sluices of heaven opened. And heavy rain fell on earth for forty days and forty nights. That very day Noah and his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth boarded the ark, with Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons, and with them every species of wild animal, every species of cattle, every species of creeping things that creep along the ground, every species of bird, everything that flies, everything with wings. One pair of all that was alive and had the breath of life boarded the ark with Noah, and those that went aboard were a male and female of all that was alive, as God had commanded him. Then Yahweh shut him in.

The flood lasted forty days on earth. The waters swelled, lifting the ark until it floated off the ground. The waters rose, swelling higher above the ground, and the ark drifted away over the waters. The waters rose higher and higher above the ground until all the highest mountains under the whole of heaven were submerged. The waters reached their peak fifteen cubits above the submerged mountains. And all living things that stirred on earth perished; birds, cattle, wild animals, all the creatures swarming over the earth, and all human beings. Everything with the least breath of life in its nostrils, everything on dry land, died. Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out, people, animals, creeping things and birds; they were wiped off the earth and only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark. The waters maintained their level on earth for a hundred and fifty days.

Messenger:        The Covenant with sign of rainbow

Messenger:    December 17, 1996 - March 1, 2004

                        3 years before  2000  <——> 3 after

                        Modern science —
                            man can do so much with
                            his reason

                        man may think all problems can be solved

                        God must be the center

                        God knows all things
                        God is infinite —
                        God is the Alpha and Omega

                        Fatima 1917

                        Lady of the Rainbow
                        Lady of the Clearwater December 17, 1996

                        9 days of Christmas

                        December 17, 1996

                        Fr. Carter does Mass at an
                            Old Seminary
                            December 14, 1996

                        Mary's Message Tape December 12, 1996
                                Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Messenger:        3rd 13th, December 13, 1996 Tom Arlinghaus
                            Farm — along the Cincinnati River

                           December 13, 1996,  Rosary click

                            December 17, 1996 Our Lady of Clear Water

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Messenger:        July 5, 1994
                         Mary appeared to
                            Myself and 2 children

  

 

    

Cling to Me

May 13, 1993 

Jesus speaks: My dear child, if you stay close to Me, then I live in you and you live in Me. I am He Who created you and I love you with such an intensity that you will never know. My words are your truth. You must abide in My heart in all things. There is no room for doubt. My ways are steadfast, direct, and without error.

    You must stay rooted in Me to ward off the power of the evil one. His grip is paralyzing and crippling. His power is stronger every day.

    When you live in Me, I am in your heart and he has no power over Me. I am your God. I am your true lover. I want to protect you. I want to guard you from this force. Stay rooted firmly in Me and he will have no power.

    I am He Who comforts you. My hand is upon you. Hold tight to Me, My child. My eyes are fixed right on you. You are My most precious child. I love you as no other can. My arms are about you. My tenderness surrounds you. My love is in your heart. You go not alone. I walk with you.

    I share every aspect of your life with you. Cling to Me, feel My presence. It is warm and secure within your chest. There is no room for fear, for I cast out fear and bring you comfort and joy.

end of May 13, 1993 message

   

 

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Messenger:      1905 My Mom and Dad were Born
                         1905 Sunday in January — Bloody Sunday

                        January 15, 1929
                            Fr. Carter was Born

                        Lucia's Vision 1929

    

    

February 10, 2005 message continues

Messenger:     World War I   1914
                            most destructive war
                            physiologically destructive

                        Russia
                        March 1917 sees starvation
                            devastation

                        March has always been a time
                            of pain for us

March 22, 1994 Holy Spirit Center -

March 3, 1997 Falmouth Flood -

March 1, 2004 Mary's Head -

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                        1917 Portugal in the war

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                        Mary appears to children

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                        Persecution of the Church in
                            Portugal 1910 - on

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                        Fatima less severe

From the Documentary on Fatima

It was a clear day, the sun
shining when at noon time
suddenly we saw a flash of lightening.
We began to run, then ahead of us, we saw a
beautiful lady about 16 years of age
dressed all in white —
she was surrounded by a brilliant radiance.
We stopped about 5 feet away from
where she was standing
atop a small evergreen —
she said, "Do not be afraid."
I asked where she came from
"I am from heaven" she said —
"I've come to ask you to come here for 6 months
in succession on the 13th
day at the same hour —
then I'll tell you who
I am and what I wish."

Messenger:        The lady asked the children to
                            accept certain sufferings —

                        She then told them to pray the
                            rosary every day to
                            secure peace for the world.

Excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima

by Father Carter, S.J.

Fatima: The Message

Before receiving the six apparitions of Our Lady, May through October of 1917, the three Fatima visionaries were visited by an angel on three different occasions during the preceding year. He appeared to them in the spring, summer, and fall. Lucia (now Sr. Lucia) describes the springtime apparition of the angel:

On reaching us, he said: “Do not be afraid! I am the Angel of Peace. Pray with me.”

Kneeling on the ground, he bowed down until his forehead touched the ground and made us repeat these words three times: “My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love You! I ask pardon of You for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love You.”

Then, rising he said: “Pray thus. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary are attentive to the voice of your supplications.”

His words engraved themselves so deeply on our minds that we could never forget them. ³

During the summer of 1916, the angel again appeared to the three visionaries. He said to them:

Pray! Pray a great deal. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary have merciful designs on you. Offer prayers and sacrifices continually to the Most High. Make everything you do a sacrifice, and offer it as an act of reparation for the sins by which God is offended, and as a petition for the conversion of sinners. Bring peace to our country in this way.... I am the Guardian Angel of Portugal. Accept and bear with submission all the sufferings the Lord will send you. ⁴

In the fall of the same year, the angel visited the visionaries a final time:

The angel came...bearing a golden chalice in one hand and a Host above it in the other. The amazed children noticed that drops of blood were falling from the Host into the chalice. Presently, the angel left both suspended in mid-air and prostrated himself on the ground, saying this beautiful prayer: “Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly. I offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifference by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and [the intercession of] the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of Thee the conversion of poor sinners.” ⁵

Sr. Lucia relates how the angel gave them Communion:

Then, rising, he took the chalice and the Host in his hand. He gave the Sacred Host to me and shared the Blood from the chalice between Jacinta and Francisco, saying as he did so:

“Take and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly outraged by ungrateful men! Make reparation for their crimes and console your God.” ⁶

3. Louis Kondar, SVD, editor, Fatima in Lucia’s Own Words (Fatima: Postulation Center, 1976), p.62. Distributed in the U.S.A. by the Ravengate Press, Cambridge, MA.
4. Our Lady’s Peace Plan, op cit., pp.1-2.
5. Ibid., p.2 (The words in brackets are my own-added for clarification).
6. Fatima in Lucia’s Own Words, op cit., pp.64-65.

end of excerpt of Spirituality of Fatima

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Jesus speaks:    This is the Mighty Medicine
                        My letters of love for the sick world
                        To lead them to the Eucharist.

Messenger:        Mary appears to 3 children at Fatima
                            7 year old Jacinta tells of apparition

                        June 13, 1917
                            2nd apparition
                            Feast of St. Anthony

                        China, Indiana dedicated Feast of St. Anthony
                            St. Anthony's Church

Messenger:        We live in a world of horns and
                            fast track — she came in
                            the midst of war
                            a top trees in a quiet little place.

                        Here in the world people are
                            inhuman to other human
                            beings —

                        Horns beat, people shake their
                            fists — move says the
                            big trucks or I will
                            run you over —

                        The little old lady has a heart
                            attack and quits driving

                        Peace Our Lady says —
                            I come to bring peace to your
                                    troubled world.

                        Mary says at
                            Fatima —

                            I wish you to come on the 13th
                                of each month for 6 months —
                                to pray the rosary.

                            The priest did not completely
                                believe them —

                            Evil and the War goes on during
                                this period of time —
                                A grave of soldiers

                            Noon July 13, 1917

Excerpts from The Spirituality of Fatima

by Father Carter, S.J.

July 13, 1917

    "During her appearance in July, Our Lady, in answer to Lucia's plea, promised that in October she would work a great miracle so that all might believe and know who she was. Again, the Mother of God told the children to sacrifice themselves for sinners and to say many times, especially when making a sacrifice, this prayer: "O my Jesus, I offer this for love of Thee, for the conversion of poor sinners, and in reparation for all the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary." ⁽¹¹⁾

    "During this same July apparition, Mary showed the three children a vision of Hell. She told them:

    "You have seen Hell, where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish, in the world, devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If people do what I tell you, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.

    "The war (World War I, then raging) is going to end. But if people do not stop offending God, another and worse one will begin in the reign of Pius XI. When you shall see a night illuminated by an unknown light [January 2, 1938], know that this is the great sign that God gives you that He is going to punish the world for its many crimes by means of war, hunger, and persecution of the Church and the Holy Father. ⁽¹²⁾

    "To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of Reparation on the five first Saturdays. If my requests are granted, Russia will be converted and there will be peace. If not, she will scatter her errors throughout the world, provoking wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, and various nations will be destroyed....

    "But in the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph, the Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, Russia will be converted, and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world." ⁽¹³⁾

  11. For background material on Fatima, I am particularly indebted to 
    Our Lady of Fatima's Peace Plan from Heaven (Rockford: TAN 
    Books and Publishers, Inc., 1983). pp.3-4.
    12. Ibid., pp.4-5.
    13. Ibid., p.5.
 

Messenger:        This is the most serious message
                            of our Lady of Fatima.

                            She warns us
                                She prophesizes

                            Lucy asked for a miracle
                                and the Lady says she will
                                give a miracle

                            Then Our Lady showed the 3
                                children a picture of hell.

Jesus speaks:    I have carved you in the
                            palm of My hand and taken
                            you to this place —

                        I have guarded you in your lives.
                        It is your faith that will help
                            you do the mission to which
                            I have called you —

                        It is your lack of faith that
                            works against My mission —
                            that hurts My mission —

                        If you do not believe —
                        If you give into satan —
                        Who will do the work I call you
                            to as My apostles

Excerpts from The Spirituality of Fatima

by Father Carter, S.J.   

August 19, 1917

    She told them she was greatly displeased by the action of the mayor. As a result, the miracle promised for October would not be as impressive as originally planned. ⁽¹⁵⁾

    15. Our Lady's Peace Plan, op cit., p.6.