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.
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February 15, 2002
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February 15, 2002
Messenger:
Today is the Feast ofSt. Claude de Columbiere S.J.
He spread the devotion to the
Sacred Heart of Jesus with
St. Margaret Mary.
Today is Fred and Jerry's
birthday in China.
Happy Birthday
Fred and Jerry.
Jesus speaks: Thanks
to all who spend endless hours
on the message.
Jesus speaks: My dear people,
You will need prayer manuals for the priests
requesting them from the mailing. Also it would be good
to put prayer manuals in the Churches. You can put
three or four a week if the priest allows you. Tell the priest
you pray for the priests, the Church and the world and there
are people praying all over the world. The prayers of the
Shepherds of Christ prayer manual are also available on
8 1/2 X 11 sheets. These sheets should be sent with every mailing,
label them Shepherds of Christ Prayers. Put a little red sticker
on the sheets if possible or one lined in red with a white center.
All pictures must be labeled as Our Lady, your Mother
has requested. The web material www.sofc.org
should be
on every picture. It is very important that the picture and
web address, Morrow address and phone numbers and the
name Shepherds of Christ accompany every picture.
I desire the pictures be circulated extensively. Your focus
must be to circulate the pictures, not the money involved.
Circulating the pictures will help bring in the money.
What is needed is funds to fill the store with the
pictures and books and image rosaries and blankets
of Our Lady of Clearwater.
Please help circulate the image pictures and items. Pictures
can be downloaded from the web site. The picture of your Mother
must be circulated. The message given to circulate image rosaries
from the site is very important to the Father's plan. They should
be made available at a very reasonable price so many can move
in and out of the store. Funds will follow if you do as I say.
My beautiful men I have given the Blue Books to you,
they are My letters of love. They can change the lives
of all who use them. I attach a special grace to
lead the souls that read the letters into a deeper
love union with Me. The Blue Books have not been
available for some time. There is a special donor
who has offered to help print 50,000 God's Blue Book II.
This pleases Me greatly.
Messenger:
The donor is able to give funds that can help print
50,000 Blue Book I's but about $14,000 more is
needed for this. Can you help to print Blue Book I
and circulate the letters Jesus gave of His love.
Jesus wants them to be circulated.
Sri Lanka
November 8, 2001
Dear Sirs,Let me introduce myself firstly. I am a mother of two children.
Son and a daughter. I received 'God's BLUE BOOK from my
husband's aunt. She wanted me to take time and read this book.
She told me after I finished to return the book.I must tell you, from the time I started reading this my life has
changed. I keep a set time for prayer and during office hours
too I keep on praising the Lord. My husband said a few days
ago that it's going to be Christmas and we do not have money.
He said he was all day worrying about this. I said leave it at the
feet of Jesus. Surrender it.Please let me know whether I could have a copy of this book
if it is possible.I love this book. I would love to have this.
God Bless
Mrs. ____
From: Philippines
To: info@Shepherds-of-Christ.org
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 1:26 PM
Subject: prayers and God's Blue Bookhi, wanted to tell you that your God's Blue Book has greatly changed my life and belief in God, I have been beset with problems and had been an unbeliever for 12 years, now have been daily reading it at a prayer room for the Blessed Sacrament here in Manila and has been a constant source of consolation and Belief.....thanks.
I want to know where I can get the prayer of Union with God, and also a copy of the God's Blue Book all three volumes and the prayers for the Holy Spirit.; Please inform me on how to avail of this because I want to share it with others.....thank you and hope also to know more about this organization and how to join it.....thank you again for propagating the Faith and will also do so in my own humble way....thank you again.....alex
From: Philippines
To: info@Shepherds-of-Christ.org
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: prayers and God's Blue Bookthank you for the response, yesterday was a trying time for me, I was losing faith in what I believed in that I questioned why despite loving God, I am having this trying time, and when I was alone with Him, I broke down and cried to Him, Questioning Him, and when I opened the page of the Blue Books only copy in the prayer room, I was amazed to read the message of May 13.......Cling to Me....every word, every detail was the answer to all my questions, and when I went home I tried locating your shepherds for christ organization and I just tried it and here you are with the answer of my mail........thank you so much and may you continue with your wonderful work and I hope I can also spread it to others in my life....thank you and thank you again.......... ciao, alex
From: Philippines
Hi.....thanks for your reply........I also forwarded this to several of my friends and you might get some mail from them...........will be writing a longer note on how your shepherds have come to show me so much about being in Union with the Heart of Jesus and Mary.........a wonderful experience and will be emailing on how to be a part of this........thank you again and hope to be in Union with Christ not only in Joy but also in the Suffering, thank you for your prayers..............alex
To: info@Shepherds-of-Christ.org
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: prayers and God's Blue Book
From: Philippines
To: info@Shepherds-of-Christ.org
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: prayers and God's Blue Bookhi, just received your books and prayers......thank you so much, donation will be fedex to your address in the envelope, thank you again, and hope to propagate Gods love to all..........ciao, alex
Mary G.
How has being a member of Shepherds of Christ has changed my life?
When I was a baby, we lived next door to a convent and I had 12 years of Catholic education. I married and left Cincinnati eventually. After my civil divorce, my three younger children and I moved back to Price Hill in Cincinnati where I grew up. This time brought me the Catholic Charismatic experience.
Dad died in '86, and I moved away to a small town. Though I tried, I thought no Catholic church or prayer group met my needs so I attended Protestant prayer meetings and services. I found ministers and prayer groups that deeply love the Lord Jesus, and I would still be in these circles except that I went back to Cincinnati to visit. I hadn't told my old friends that I was no longer a practicing Catholic so I joined them when they attended charismatic functions. At one of these I was given Blue Book I.
Actually, someone tried to give it to me and I wouldn't take it saying, I had too much to read , so it was given to the friend I was staying with. When we got home and she was out of the room, I opened the book so I could congratulate myself for not accepting it.
That's Jesus! Jesus is speaking in this book! I read almost the whole book that night, then I ate humble pie and phoned the lady who had pressed me to accept it. I received it in a few days.
Back home I read and reread it. Jesus was speaking loud and clear and I went to the nearest church and made a confession and resumed my long neglected practice of daily Mass. I also began to go to the Shepherds of Christ chapter meetings in Morrow, Ohio, where I heard the call for volunteers to come to the Virgin Mary Site in Clearwater, Florida.
How well I understand God's words, "Your thoughts are not My thoughts!".
Changing my thoughts and my ways comes more slowly than changing my address, which is now Clearwater, Florida.
Though retirement isn't at all what I thought it would be, I wouldn't trade places with anyone at all.
February 15, 2002 message continues
Jesus speaks: I call you to be My Shepherd of Christ apostles and
associates. If you can not help with the funds,
please pray for the availability of Prayer Manuals
and Blue Books.
Messenger:
There is a need for the
foreign postage for the Priestly Newsletter
Book II and the monthly payment on
the Virgin Mary building every month. There
is always a need for rosary beads for the
rosary factory and rosary makers in Jasper and other
places making rosaries for the schools.
Mary speaks: There is so much money in the world. My children
are being taught so much evil, you do not even
realize how the evil one is making so much
strides and I cry to you to help me.
I appear to tell the world that they must pray as
never before.
So much grace is granted after communion.
Teach Your Children My Love
May 2, 1994 After Communion 7:15a.m.
Jesus speaks: I am inside of you. Read this letter to your children and their friends. I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God. At My name all knees should bend. In My presence you should be in awe and ardent devotion. I am Jesus. I want to be adored and worshiped. I want to be honored as God. Do you honor Me after Communion? I am God, child. Where do you rush in a hurry? To eat? Children need to spend time with Me. Do not teach them the bad habit of running for food. Tell them about My True Presence. Bring your breakfast and eat later. You have time. I want your time afterwards for 20 minutes. Teach the children this. They need to be alone with Me, too. I do not come to you and them in a different way. I am present, truly here. If they can spend 20 minutes with their best friend, they can spend 20 minutes with Me also. This is your opportunity to teach them a good lesson and not a bad one.
I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God. You are a tabernacle. Do not run from My altar to please the children. Teach them a lesson for life. Nothing compares to the time after Communion. God is in your breast. God, child! Do you hear Me? Nothing compares to God! I can do all things in My divinity and love. I come to you, a mere human, and you think you have to tend to worldly things. This offends Me so. You do not know. I come in love. Receive Me in love and reverence. Teach your children of My love.
end of May 2, 1994 message
Be Silent with Me
May 4, 1994
Jesus speaks: My beloved ones, I love you this day this way. I died for you. I want you to know how I am waiting for you, My most beloved ones, to come and sit with Me after Communion. Do not offend My aching Heart by leaving in such indifference and discussing the weather. You have a free will I gave to you freely. I can only beg you, but you do not listen. You want what you want. Nothing, nothing can compare to time spent with Jesus Christ, truly present in your heart after Communion.
Be with Me, stay with Me, be silent with Me. Read My letters on how I love you. I wait, I wait, I wait, I yearn, I long for you, My loved ones. Oh, please do not run! Such indifference! Sit with Me at least 20 minutes. Stay. I long for you, My beloved ones. I come to you. I enter your breast. I am God. I beg you. Your will is free. You do not hear because you do not want to hear Me, My cry coming to you. What can be more important than God in your breast? I will fill you with such gifts you will never know. Please stay with Me. Do not treat Me with such indifference. I love you so! Jesus.
end of May 4, 1994 message
Excerpt from the Spirituality Handbook
Pope Pius XII speaks about the duty of spending the proper time in thanksgiving:
"When at Mass, which is subject to special rules of the liturgy, is over, the person who has received Holy Communion is not thereby freed from his duty of thanksgiving; rather, it is most becoming that, when the Mass is finished, the person who has received the Eucharist should recollect himself and, in intimate union with the Divine Master, hold loving and fruitful converse with Him. Hence they have departed from the straight way of truth who, adhering to the letter rather than the sense, assert and teach that, when Mass has ended, no such thanksgiving should be added, not only because the Mass is itself a thanksgiving, but also because this pertains to a private and personal act of piety and not to the good of the community." (5)
Notes:
5. Pope Pius XII, Mediator Dei, No. 123.
February 15, 2002 message continues
Jesus speaks:
I truly speak
here. So many of My youth are being
led astray by the teachings in religion in schools.
Your only answer is prayer.
Pray, Pray, Pray.
Oh that you would realize the Gift of the
Eucharist. The Gift is not appreciated by
many.
I beg you to pray these prayers for the priests,
the Church and the world.
February 15, 2002 message continues
Jesus speaks: Make a list of things that are needed so people
can help if they so desire.
Messenger:
A small list is this
1) Priestly Newsletter Book II Foreign Mailing Postage
2) Mass Book II
3) Rosary Meditations for Little People and Elderly
4) Blue Book I printing
5) Prayer Manuals printing
6) Holy Spirit Novena Booklet printing
7) Rosary beads
8) Image rosaries to sell
9) Pictures (photo's) to make available
10) Blankets of Mary's image
11) Videos for nursing home program
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13) Little People's Coloring Book of the Mass
Mary speaks:
I ask you to pray
for these needs on the list. Those
who can, can pray hourly.
Messenger:
The picture machine was
ordered, built and ready, but funds were not available
and the loan for the machine was denied.
Mary speaks:
I ask you to help circulate pictures of My image in
Florida and all over the world.
There has been so much head way made through
My Son's Movement Shepherds of Christ. I ask you
to help through your prayers and donations.
Messenger:
Please pray for the needs on the list given. Also
donations can be made through credit cards.
There will be a special Mass in China, Indiana
on Friday February 22, 2002. There will be a special
taping of the rosary for disc and tape if all
works according to plan. Please pray especially
for this. We need your prayers.
Also a rosary will be held in Sidney on February 26, 2002.
Please call the Morrow Center for details.
Pray fervently for the rosary of March 5, 2002.
All who can attend can come to Florida, if you
cannot special broadcasts are held in about
8 states. Call Morrow for details.
Mary speaks:
You are
Shepherds of Christ, special intercessors
praying for the priests, the Church and the world.
I cry to you to help me. There is so much untruth
that is being taught especially to the young.
My Son Jesus gives you these prayers
Shepherds of Christ Prayers and Holy Spirit Prayers.
In praying these prayers you are helping by living
a deeper life of consecration and spreading the
Blood of Jesus on the world and entrusting the world
to Our two Hearts.
My children are being taught untruths
by those who mean well.
My poor little ones. The souls are dropping into
hell like rain. The devil tempts men with
the sexual allurements. The devil works on the
appetite. The devil wants the young ones to
give in. He tempts men to portray the bodies of
naked women in luring ways before the people
of the earth. You cannot hardly turn on the
television and not see such vice right before your
eyes. Some speak openly about perverted things,
others encourage others to sin, giving the impression
it is the way to live.
Oh my children, you have offended God. When
you pray the prayers My Son gives you, you help
make reparation for the sin committed against the
Most Sacred Heart of My Son.
Oh my children, your priests are dwindling because
many do not treasure the gift God has given to you
in the Eucharist and in the priest. The more the leaders
of schools, the more priests preach about the power in
the Eucharist, the more God will outpour His grace
when people go to the Eucharist with thankful hearts
and hearts of joy, treasuring the gifts given by God
in the Church.
Oh my children, how are you when one is sick,
many turn to God and then ask for healing. Oh
my children, your world is sick. I beg you to
pray. I appear for this reason and I am
teaching you how to pray from my Image
site in Florida.
During this lent, gaze on the picture of my
Son Jesus on the crucifix. Pictures can be
ordered, framed and unframed to look at.
Give the picture of the crucifix along with
my image as a gift this lent. Great grace can
be released from gazing on a picture of the
crucifix.
February 15, 2002 message continues
Mary speaks:
Oh my children, I cry to you. Circulate
these pictures of the Mass.
February 15, 2002 message continues
Mary speaks: A sheet was compiled that you can carry with you
and meditate on the Gift given in the Eucharist
A letter from a young man
I was in the hospital because my mom was sick
and the time seemed so long. I never knew mom
was so sick. She was always there for me, loving
me and waiting on us children when we ask her--
Mom was always there. . .That day all the things I had been thinking about
for months meant so little to me, all my worrying
about money and getting ahead and my newly
sodded lawn. I remember hollering at my children
for all their fingerprints on the wall.They looked so cute with their little faces looking
at me and their little eyes down cast because
I was scolding them so harshly, but I didn't
care, all my focus was on the material things
and a lot of built up anger came out on
those precious little children.It makes me wonder how many people let built
up anger spill all over people that never deserve
it.Well anyway, I walked in the chapel, I held my hat in
my hands, my sisters were with me, they knelt
down and were crying. A Sister of the Community
there came by and hugged and held my crying sister
and she just sobbed so hard and spoke in a garbled
tone saying things about mom. I wanted to cry too
but I just let the pain stick me in my heart and
I held back the tears with a big lump in my throat.
My Letter to Mary My Mother
(from the same man)
Dear Mary,
I saw your statue in the corner at the chapel in the hospital and
you were holding the baby Jesus. All of a sudden I thought
of the image picture I had seen of you appearing
in Florida on the building. I just kept knocking it around
on the dresser top in the bedroom at home. Some
woman gave it to me on a plane and told me you
appear to tell the world they must obey the
Commandments of God and you are teaching
them to pray for the priests, the Church and the
world from your image site in Clearwater, Florida.
I just closed my eyes when I looked at your picture.
Now with mom in a comma and me in the chapel
I felt very close to you when I looked at the
statue and you holding Jesus and wondered
why I had closed my eyes and not taken more
notice when a complete stranger gave me
such a sign.
Well Mary, I know what a mother means to me
now and I don't want my mom to go so I will
never see her on earth again. Mary I know you
gave me a special sign with that picture. Now
all my focus on worldly things doesn't seem so
important.
I am really close to my mom and I don't want her to
die. Mary will you help me? I feel pretty close to
heaven now and the life hereafter. I wonder how
I could have gotten so far from God. That picture
made me think. It made me think about things on
September 11, 2001.
Mary speaks:
Sometimes the person doesn't react right
away to my image, but it helps draw them
out of their material world and makes them
think. Then when they are faced with a crisis
they remember this astounding sign.
I promise that to those who gaze on my image
picture they will be changed.
They will receive a special grace from
my Son and He will continue to give
them special graces to change.
They may say no.
I ask you to circulate my image picture.
My friend Tom was given a message to circulate
the picture with the Blue Books.
The Books are very inexpensive and this can be done
to those who are hungry.
My Son asks you to please circulate these
prayers.
My Son has given you these special prayers to pray
for the priests, the Church and the world.
Messenger:
Oh Father, I love Thee so very much. I
pray that You will take care of my children.
I keep focusing on what You told me a few
days ago when I was given a special
experience about Your might. I know in
a moment You can change the hearts by
outpouring Your grace.
The world is so vast.
God created this world and all that is in it.
February 15, 2002 message continues
Messenger: God made the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1: 1-5
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.
Genesis 1: 26-28
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.’
Genesis 3: 1-7
The Fall
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.
Genesis 3: 13-24
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.
February 15, 2002 message continues
Messenger: Look at the beauty of the earth—
Genesis 4: 1-2
The man had intercourse with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. ‘I have acquired a man with the help of Yahweh,’ she said. She gave birth to a second child, Abel, the brother of Cain. Now Abel became a shepherd and kept flocks, while Cain tilled the soil.
Genesis 4: 7
If you are doing right, surely you ought to hold your head high! But if you are not doing right, Sin is crouching at the door hungry to get you. You can still master him.’
Genesis 4: 10-11
‘What have you done?’ Yahweh asked. ‘Listen! Your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground. Now be cursed and banned from the ground that has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood at your hands.
Genesis 9: 13-15
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.
February 15, 2002 message continues
Mary speaks:
I appear in rainbow color
that you will remember the
covenant God has made with
His people.
Matthew 26: 26-29
The institution of the Eucharist
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had said the blessing he broke it and gave it to the disciples. ‘Take it and eat,’ he said, ‘this is my body.’ Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he handed it to them saying, ‘Drink from this, all of you, for this is my blood, the blood of the covenant, poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. From now on, I tell you, I shall never again drink wine until the day I drink the new wine with you in the kingdom of my Father.’
Mark 14: 22-26
The institution of the Eucharist
And as they were eating he took bread, and when he had said the blessing he broke it and gave it to them. ‘Take it,’ he said, ‘this is my body.’ Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he handed it to them, and all drank from it, and he said to them, ‘This is my blood, the blood of the covenant, poured out for many. In truth I tell you, I shall never drink wine any more until the day I drink the new wine in the kingdom of God.’
Luke 22: 19-20
The institution of the Eucharist
Then he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.’ He did the same with the cup after supper, and said, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood poured out for you.
~ August 4, 1999 ~
About the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
My God, this is all I care about -- this union with You for all eternity, the rapture of existing in You in the deepest possible, most mature relationship.
My life is a journey to grow in an always deeper relationship with God here on earth so that my relationship with Him in eternity may be as deep as possible. Oh, the glory of it all, this rapturous union, existing in such depth with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Since the writings of the day August 2, 1999, morning Mass and 6:20 p.m. prayers (appeared August 3, 1999 Internet), I understand more fully the idea of total consecration. My life was given to Him at Baptism and now there is that complete surrendering of my life, of my will given to Him.
I identify so profoundly with Him in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. I see the meaning of consecration and the prayer He gave me December 27, 1995, the Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. It is, indeed, a most powerful prayer, for He acted in my soul so that it would be written for us to pray so we can advance more profoundly to a deeper union in Him in this Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
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.
-God's Blue Book, December 27, 1995
~ August 4, 1999 continues ~
I must stop here and define sacrifice. A sacrifice is a consecrated offering. The Mass is a Sacrifice. One of its purposes is to make atonement to our God for man's sins. We are coming to the altar of sacrifice as sinners, connected to one another as creatures of God, going to God and begging mercy and forgiveness for our sins. We are sorry we have sinned and we recognize our
dependence on Him and His grace.
Today I was given great grace in the Mass, including the ability to dwell in Him in great depths. He takes over my being as I exist in Him. It is He Who chiefly pleads in the Sacrifice to the Father. It is His emotions I experience. Today...I felt as if the flood gates of heaven opened on the earth as I existed in Him.
I was with Him on the cross and my heart was consumed with love, the pain and anguish of the body I no longer felt, for the love for the souls He loves consumed my heart. I felt His love in me and all He wanted was for them to be saved. I wanted them to be loving and as the Father wished from the beginning. The love I felt for each precious soul was so immense, for His desire was that not one be lost, not one, but that every soul be saved . I kept hearing the song One Bread, One Body, as it played within me as my soul joined in. The emotion was so strong for oneness that it made me cry harder, wanting it so very much. It was as if a chorus sang the song, but it came from the depth of my heart as I was one in Him and existed in Him.
It is hard to account this, for things happen, so many things happen all at once in the Mass around the Consecration and thereafter.
A chorus sings as He hangs on the cross. It was as if my soul left my body, for all I knew was love, the love for souls, the fire of burning divine love within my being wanting only creatures existing in Him for all eternity.
I knew the intensity to a small degree of the offering of Himself completely to the Father. I knew the pleading He did with His whole being in satisfaction for the sins of men.
I knew more the purity of a God-made Man giving Himself as a Sacrifice and the power of it for all of the vile sins of all men for all time.
I knew Him in His love, He was consumed for souls. I knew the complete offering of Himself, the begging for souls to be saved. His whole being was consumed with wanting souls saved. From deep within He offered Himself because of the greatness of His love.
Love is a consuming force.
God is love.
I was with Him on the cross, experiencing to a small extent the desires of His Heart for His beloved creatures. I was participating in the Mass in which the Sacrifice of Calvary is sacramentally made present for us today. I realized as I participated in the Mass in Him that He in this oneness in my soul was pleading for His beloved souls in Me.
I begged for mercy, mercy for all generations, for all my ancestors and I could hear Him in the
words of the Mass, He being so one in the priest, offering this Sacrifice to the Father for His beloved souls.
Oh mercy, we plead for mercy from our God. I heard the words of Jesus in the priest and I heard the words, "through Him, with Him and in Him".
We offer sacrifice, consumed in the deepest love in the holy all-pure Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
We empty ourselves, for this is what He did.
He, God, emptied Himself completely and gave Himself for love of His precious souls so that they would be saved.
We offer ourselves, I emptied myself. I want this most complete Consecration to Them so that I can partake to the greatest possible degree in purity in this Sacrifice and plead as He did for His precious souls. I am pleading in Him for our earth, for all priests, for all souls, as I exist in a place of deepest love for Them, pleading for forgiveness, wanting to make reparation to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary for the offering of sacrifices that could have been more pure and holy and for ignoring Them entirely many times.
I plead as I exist in the New Adam, as I am united to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, the New Adam and the New Eve.
I know a little more of this greatest Sacrifice. God gave His Son as our Savior. He came through a human person, pure and spotless, Mary the Immaculate Virgin.
Help me to spread this knowledge of this most powerful gift, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in which the Sacrifice of Calvary is sacramentally made present so that we will all partake more fully in this great act of offering Sacrifice. Pray that great grace and mercy will be outpoured on the earth. Unite all your activities to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for the Church and the world and the intentions of the Shepherds of Christ Movement, His Movement, by saying the Morning Offering.
Morning Offering
My dear Father, I offer you this day all my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings in union with Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world, in the Holy Spirit.
I unite with our Mother Mary, all the angels and saints, and all the souls in purgatory to pray to the Father for myself, for each member of my family, for my friends, for all people throughout the world, for all the souls in purgatory, and for all other intentions of the Sacred Heart.
I love You, Jesus, and I give You my heart. I love you, Mary, and I give you my heart.
~ August 4, 1999 continues ~
At the end of this little Morning offering say,
"We offer our day to help in the salvation of souls, for our priests, the renewal of the Church and the world and for the Shepherds of Christ intentions."
Oh God, Lamb of God, You take away the sins of the world, HAVE MERCY ON US.
I feel as Lucia in this vision at Mass. Pray with me like this at Mass.
end excerpt from August 4, 1999
February 14, 2002
The Priestly Newsletter Book II was released to
the production floor at the printer
today - Valentine's Day.It is a special gift of God's love to the Church.
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
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