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 11 p.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.

February 12, 2002

February 13th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 5 Period I.

The Novena Rosary Mystery
for February 13th Sorrowful.

    We need the money for the
        Priestly Newsletter Book II mailing.
      You can use your credit card if you call
        the Morrow Center. 1-888-211-3041

                        Adoration in China will go until 1:00 on Friday
                            praying fervently for the priests, the
                            Church and the world.

                        The prayers and the rosary will be held at
                            12:00 on Wednesday and the church will
                            be full at that time with apostles praying
                            for the priests, the Church and the world.

                        Others will be gathered in Florida before the
                            image where a live broadcast can be heard
                            praying united to many others receiving a
                            live broadcast.

                        The Priestly Newsletter Book II is
                            being printed this week and will be
                            sent to the 45,000 priests in the
                            United States.

                        Money is needed to send the Newsletter
                            Book II to the foreign countries.
                            It will go to many, many priests and
                            bishops in 90 foreign countries.

February 12, 2002

Messenger: Pray for the Priestly Newsletter
Book II

Pray for Ron and Ron and Don and
families.

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

February 12, 2002 message continues

Messenger: God has really taught us how to pray.

                        There can be much suffering in waiting for something,
                            someone to call, a sick child, a dying mother.
                        Very much grace could be released for our patient endurance
                            during these waiting periods. We turn ourselves to God.
                        Enduring the waiting as a form of suffering and offering
                            it up asking Him to outpour grace for our needs and
                            the needs of the priest, the Church and the world.
                        God shows us periods of waiting and then celebration.
                        I wait every day for the Mass. I love to go to Mass,
                            my day centers around it.
                        Then I receive our beloved God in the Eucharist.
                        The Christ child was promised, then Jesus was born.
                        I remember Jesus said in the October 8, 1997 message

"Jesus speaks: Joy is not in the molten calf.
It is in the words of the Savior...."

                        On October 7, 1994, three years before He gave me the
                            Song from Jesus to be used at Mass on October 8, 1994.
                        Listen to the words of this song given from Jesus.

February 12, 2002 message continues

Messenger: Suffering - today is "fat Tuesday" we need to really
pray for the souls of the earth.

                             There are 40 days in Lent until Easter. That
                            doesn't seem very long. When I was a child
                            it felt Lent went on for so long. Forty
                            days can be a special time to prepare
                            ourselves for the great event of Easter.

                            Oh God give us the grace to live according
                        to Your will. Help us to make this a special
                        time during Lent to serve You.

                            A new 108 day novena just started
                        we could try to do this every day during
                        Lent. We could try to do all we can to go
                        to daily Mass and spend extra time
                        before the tabernacle meditating on His
                        Passion. We can make absolutely sure
                        we pray our morning offering every day.

                         Oh God, we love You so much. Thank You
                            for the gift of Jesus Your Son who
                            gave Himself on the cross for us.

        Jesus told me to write to Him as His
            beloved Spouse
            February 23, 1998. He said to begin the
            writings on Ash Wednesday February 25, 1998.

Excerpt from The Spouse of the Lamb

Ash Wednesday, February 25, 1998 - 1st Day

Jesus speaks: Do you think I acted on your soul less when I gave you the experiences of hell?

    I give to you the greatest graces to know My love. I act directly on your soul. I am the Bridegroom of your soul.

Messenger: Oh Jesus, He took me to the heights of ecstasy in Him in realizing how He is the Initiator and acts on my soul. How foolish I am indeed to think it is I who control the workings of God on my soul, when in fact He is the Bridegroom of my soul.

    I see Him look at me with the greatest love, as I did once in the study, when I knew He looked at me and loved me so. I sat with a white dress and my Bridegroom looked with love on me, thinking me so beautiful to Him, me the little child of the Father in all my faults, and looking on me with such love. He stood above me as a Bridegroom dressed in black, tall and handsome, and He looked down with the most loving eyes upon me and I knew the love of the Divine Creator.

    Today I knew how it was, how He acted on my soul.

    I see how it is when someone really acts in love and does something for me because that person loves me.

    I see myself as open, letting go, putting myself entirely in the hands of the Creator, the God I love, and the Bridegroom comes with the greatest love and His grace. He gives me Himself. My job is to be, just to be, a soul, waiting for the Bridegroom to just give me Himself in the greatest love. I am, I know it is He who acts, and when He acts His presence overtakes my soul. I am, I let go and I reminisce about all the times He just overtook my soul.

    Little do I do, for it is the Bridegroom loving me, loving my soul and acting most intimately on my soul.

    I sit and surrender myself entirely to Him. He is the Initiator. He is the One Who acts with His grace and NOTHING - no intimate experience, nothing here can fill the soul with this love and satisfaction.

    For the Bridegroom acts and the soul is satisfied, the only desire is that it will never end. Sometimes there is such a longing and realizing the temporariness of it all. Sometimes He gives my soul such satisfaction, comfort and love, and I am filled with the greatest peace and satisfaction with less awareness of the temporariness, just peace.

Jesus speaks: I give you the peace of the Sacred Heart of Jesus when He acts on the soul of His spouse. I am the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. I am the Spouse of your soul. I give you this satisfaction so that you will write to Me after Communion for My Mass Books for the world. This book will be entitled the Spouse of the Lamb. I will act on your soul most intimately.

    And what My child is the key, but total surrender as a spouse who knows her spouse loves her and takes the love given. You, child, pray for this grace, to be possessed by the Lamb, the Bridegroom of your soul. What lesson did I teach you this day but that it is I who act upon you, you do not control My love given to you in any way. A grace is given, a grace is received.

    Your total surrender is the way to most optimally allow the Bridegroom, the Lamb, to act on your soul.

    Total yielding, so that you will allow yourself to be IN ME.

Messenger: Oh my God - how to explain that which happens when You act on my soul and what I experience. Are there any words that could do this justice when the Almighty God finds favor with me most intimately, and gives Himself to me?

Jesus speaks: My child, I act, you are passive, empty and open. Surrender and I will possess your soul with the lights of heaven so you can experience your Divine Lover most intimately. Surrender, surrender, surrender, a state of being and surrender to live in Him at the point of greatest intimacy in the Mass.

    You will know days of darkness and joy as the shadows and lights fade in and out of your life and I reveal Myself most intimately to you.

    I am Jesus Christ, the Bridegroom of your soul. Your hand must record these experiences for the marriage of the Lamb to the soul.

    I act upon your soul most intimately.


A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul

Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience you most intimately.

Messenger: My beloved Jesus,

    The Bridegroom of my soul. It is not I who write, but in fact, You Who write through me, to Yourself. I surrender myself and want to exist in You in such oneness that I can more optimally love You.

    This is my desire to give You great love from my heart existent in You.

    And this I write for 10 minutes that You will help me to love God most intimately and give myself more completely to Him.

    My God, I adore You, I worship You, I love You, my beloved Spouse, the Bridegroom of my soul. I know the black Bridegroom, the one dressed as a bridegroom who wears a white robe of glory. Yes, it is the priests dressed in black that are to teach us to be the spouse of the Lamb.

Revelation 1:6

…and made us a Kingdom of Priests to serve his God and Father; to him, then, be glory and power for ever and ever. Amen.

Messenger: And the Bridegroom comes, He summons the soul.

    Oh, my Bridegroom, we pray for the wedding of the Lamb to our souls.

    We pray for the spousal relationship of our souls with Our Divine God.

Jesus speaks: I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. The life flows from My Sacred Heart to My body, the Church. Many never mention the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

    What body would survive cut off from the heart? My life flows from My Heart into the body, My Church.

    I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus and My Heart will reign - I am calling My people to a personal spousal relationship with God. This is the work of the Shepherds of Christ. I bless you in this mission to bring about the Reign of My Sacred Heart.

    I am Jesus, the Son of God, Son of Man, the Sacred Heart, I am the beating Heart that keeps the body alive with My grace.

Messenger: Blood and water poured forth from His most Sacred Heart. Blood a symbol of the Eucharist, water a symbol of Baptism.

    He cursed the barren fig tree.

Revelation 6:13

…and the stars of the sky fell onto the earth like figs dropping from a fig tree when a high wind shakes it;

Revelation 7:17

…because the Lamb who is at the heart of the throne will be their shepherd and will guide them to springs of living water; and God will wipe away all tears from their eyes.

Revelation 5:10

and made them
a line of kings and priests for God,
to rule the world.

end of excerpt from The Spouse of the Lamb

February 7, 2002



To whom it may concern,


    We circulate the Priestly Newsletter that goes to 75,000 priests in the world. This has been circulated since 1994 at the direction of Fr. Edward Carter, S.J. who had a doctorate in Theology and taught at Xavier University for over thirty years and author of eighteen books on the spiritual life and many other various publications.

    Our primary purpose is to circulate this Newsletter. We are now sending three years of Newsletters in a book of 342 pages to 75,000 priests in the United States and 90 foreign countries. A special Newsletter is enclosed with Father Carter's powerful writing on Grace (2001 issue 1). This writing is also available on tape and on disc.

    Our coequal purpose is to circulate prayer manuals Father Carter compiled for prayer chapters praying for the priests, the Church and
the world.

    All of our printing and postage costs so much money.

    We operate from the Virgin Mary building in Clearwater, Florida, pictures are enclosed. We use the building to spread materials and rosaries
to encourage people to pray for the priests, the Church and the world.

    We also have a church we received from the diocese in China, Indiana where we distribute our materials and pray before the Blessed Sacrament hourly and about two hours or more at 6:20 every day. Monthly adoration before the exposed Eucharist is held for our members for 48 hours on the 12th of each month to the 14th.

    We have a third center in Morrow, Ohio which is our communication center and mailing address.

    We circulate rosaries handmade to Catholic schools all over the United States and meditation sheets and consecration cards. We try to send scapulars too when we have them. We supply many beads to our rosary makers for this.

    We had difficulty all last summer securing funds for beads for our rosary makers. We were not able to send the 100,000 or more rosaries we usually send in October and May because of funds.

    We need $10,000 every month for the loan on the Virgin Mary building. We pray nightly there usually for about two hours or more at 6:20. We pray all through the day there, hourly, many times before the image. A big prayer meeting is held on the 5th of the month. Prayers are prayed for about 4 hours for the priests, the Church and the world. We broadcast to at least 8 states and all join in the prayers, including Morrow and China.

    We have a nursing home ministry and a prison ministry. We supply coloring books of the rosary mysteries and the Mass to children.

    We desperately need funds for the printing and the rosary making operation and all the postage. Bishops from foreign countries beg for rosaries and prayer sheets with the Shepherds of Christ Prayers.

    Now we are struggling with the monthly rent on the building and the postage for the foreign mailing of the Priestly Newsletter Book II.

    We always need money for the rosary beads for the schools and the Virgin Mary building.

    We also do a Holy Spirit Novena, but the little book has been out of print for some time because of lack of funds. Teachers like to use it for confirmation. We have prayer chapters using it daily all over the world.

    We want to circulate pictures of the crucifix and Mary's image on the building, we are unable to do this because of lack of funds. Enclosed are pictures of the crucifix and the Virgin Mary building.

    A very important part of our Movement is trying to get people to say the Morning Offering. Here is a card we distribute extensively, especially to Nursing Homes and school children.





    Here is a short form of consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary that we circulate extensively.





    Can you help us. It is a real shame to not even have rent on the building Mary appears on.

    We need to tell the world about the Mass. This is another important aspect of our ministry. We have so many writings about the Mass. Mass Book I with the Imprimatur—and all Fr. Carter's writings and many other writings discerned by Fr Carter before his death.

    It is a shame with all the money in the world not to be able to get the rosary beads to the rosary makers for school children who want them to pray the rosary.

    Our movement is trying to do what Our Lady told us to do at Fatima for peace in the world.

    Can you help us?


                            Rita Ring
                            Shepherds of Christ Ministries