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Jesus speaks: My apostles in the Shepherds of Christ Movement and all My dearly loved souls, I speak to you.
I call you My beautiful ones, for you have given your life to Me and you are working more and more toward purity in your hearts.
Messenger: After Mass, before I could write His message, He told me over and over again that this is serious business and the devil wishes us stopped now.
We need priests so one in Him offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. This oneness comes through consecration to the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
There are three great visions I had that began March 26, 1996, and ended in Easter week that year. The second main vision was on Holy Saturday.
I see the vision of Lucia 1929, June 25, forever before my eyes. This is serious business, He says.
Vision of Lucia, main visionary of Fatima, 1929
Messenger: We are all imperfect, we must be so completely dependent on Him. He is our Spouse, we are spouses of the Lamb. Mary is the most perfect spouse of the Lamb for she is the perfect human person, Immaculate, without sin.
When Mary was here on earth with the Apostles, she interceded for the Church. Her life was lived in this oneness with God. She interceded to the Father in perfect purity for the souls of the earth. Mary spent those last years praying so fervently for the Church.
Excerpt from The Eucharistic Sacrifice
section of the
Shepherds of Christ Newsletter Issue 4, 1998
- Yes, the effectiveness of each Mass, which makes the sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally present, depends in part on the holiness of the entire Church offering it with Christ to the Father in the Holy Spirit, including the holiness of the individual priest offering the Mass and the holiness of his participating congregation.
Fr. Maurice de la Taille, S.J., formerly professor of Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University, and a universally recognized authority on the Mass, points out the great importance of personal holiness in the Church relative to the effectiveness of the Eucharistic sacrifice: "It is, then, of greatest importance that there should be in the Church many holy, many very holy persons. Devout people, men and woman, who should be urged by every means to higher sanctity, so that through them the value of our Masses may be increased and the tireless voice of the Blood of Christ, crying from the earth, may ring with greater clearness and insistence in the ears of God. His Blood cries on the altars of the Church, but, since it cries through us, it follows that the warmer the heart, the purer the lips, the more clearly will its cry be heard at the Throne of God. Would you wish to know why for so many years after the first Pentecost the Gospel was so marvelously propagated; why there was so much sanctity amongst the Christian people; why such purity in heart and mind, such charity, the sum of all perfections? You will find the answer when you recall that in those times the Mother of God was still on earth giving her precious aid in all the Masses celebrated by the Church, and you will cease to wonder that never since has there been such expansion of Christianity, and such spiritual progress."7
If all, then, have a responsibility to grow in holiness in order to render the Mass more efficacious, the priest has a special duty to do so. His goal must always be to grow in holiness--to grow in union with Christ the priest, this Christ Who leads us to the Father in the Holy Spirit with Mary at our side.
7 Maurice de la Taille, S.J., The Mystery of Faith: Book 2, "The Sacrifice of the Church", translated by Joseph Carroll and P.J. Dalton, Sheed & Ward, p. 240.
Excerpt from The Eucharist
section of the
Shepherds of Christ Newsletter Issue 1, 1999
- "Through the Eucharistic Sacrifice Christ the Lord desired to set before us in a very special way this remarkable union whereby we are united one with another and with our divine Head, a union that no word of praise can ever sufficiently express. For in this sacrifice the sacred ministers act not only as the representative of our Saviour, but as the representative of the whole Mystical Body and of each one of the faithful. Again, in this act of sacrifice, the faithful of Christ, united by the common bond of devotion and prayer, offer to the eternal Father through the hands of the priest, whose prayer alone has made it present on the altar, the Immaculate Lamb, the most acceptable victim of praise and propitiation for the Church's universal need. Moreover, just as the divine Redeemer, while dying on the Cross, offered Himself to the eternal Father as Head of the whole human race, so now, 'in this clean oblation' He not only offers Himself as Head of the Church to His heavenly Father but in Himself His mystical members as well. He embraces them all, yes, even the weaker and more ailing members, with the deepest love of His Heart. (Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis AAS, XXXV, 232-233) 16
16 Pope Pius XII, Encyclical Letter, Mystici Corporis, AAS, XXXV, pp 232-233.
Messenger: We must live in truth, we must recognize our imperfections, we must live in purity at every moment, living in the Father's will. We want purity of intention, living every moment according to His will. We cannot cut corners, we must live in truth. We cannot make our own plan because we want the job done. We must go by the Father's plan, we must be pure in our actions.
We must constantly have before our eyes that vision which faith imparts to us. God is almighty, God is in charge, God can do anything as it says in Luke when speaking of Elizabeth's barrenness and the fact now she had conceived.
Luke 1:36
And I tell you this too: your cousin Elizabeth also, in her old age, has conceived a son, and she whom people called barren is now in her sixth month,
Messenger: Now I speak of this. There are sacrifices offered by men like Cain, there are sacrifices offered by men like Abel.
Genesis 4:2-7
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. Time passed and Cain brought some of the produce of the soil as an offering for Yahweh, while Abel for his part brought the first-born of his flock and some of their fat as well. Yahweh looked with favour on Abel and his offering. But he did not look with favour on Cain and his offering, and Cain was very angry and downcast. Yahweh asked Cain, 'Why are you angry and downcast? 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.
Messenger: So the devil is a demon lurking at the door but we can be his master.
In Revelation 12:11 it tells how they conquered the devil.
Revelation 12:11
They have triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word to which they bore witness, because even in the face of death they did not cling to life.
Messenger: Mary, Immaculate and pure, is the Mother of the Church. We want to be one body united in the deepest holiness to one another at every moment.
In the third vision of Easter week, the sanctuary was adorned in a gold veil and the bell tolled at the consecration of the Mass. I knew that day, the revelation was so clear how at every moment we help in the work of redemption by being connected to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass around the world. When I am doing my dishes and loving my family, I can be connected to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass around the world.
Every moment the bell tolls for the souls of the earth, and in our living in the purity of the moment (that being according to His will) united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, great grace will be released. The power is so great when we are connected in our hearts as one body with this purity of intention, living according to His will, united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, being one body united together in Him.
I hear the words of the Mass and I see Him as I did that day leaning over the altar, dressed in a white gown like the garment under the outer garment of the priest at Mass, with a cincture tied about His waist. He was interceding so intently for His precious souls, the same souls He gave His life for.
In that moment today, I realized the immense power in all of us being united at every moment with this desire so strong in our hearts to help save souls, to help the world to be as the Father wills at every second.
At Mass, the prayer to the Father is our pleading prayer at every moment.
Our Father (See reference Internet message Our Father, click on if you desire)
"For the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory are yours, now and forever."
Insight into this hidden mystery of being one in the Body of Christ is being deepened in these writings. We are spouses of the Lamb, pleading under the cross with the Virgin Mary, kneeling at the altar as Lucia, at every moment united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
We are one body in Him.
The teaching of this message is this:
The floodgates of heaven will open and the bountiful rain of His grace will shower the thirsty earth like drops from heaven on a parched earth below when the earth does as He wishes. "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
My fellow shepherds, He wishes to reach the ones that are lost, He died for all.
We must realize the importance of living IN HIM at every second, as a body, united in Their Hearts.
We must feel the connection of pulling together at every moment, united to one another in prayer, united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
I see now that we must be united as a body in our hearts at every moment pleading to Him for our earth, for the priests, for the renewal of the Church and the world, for souls.
I write to you from a cemetery as He has requested me to do. Death is as real as the funeral parade of cars that just passed my van. There are souls dropping into hell like rain, as Mary said those last long months when she lamented daily (January-September 1995).
My heart is so connected to that beautiful Mother that came to me and now appears on the building in Florida as Our Lady of Guadalupe, begging her children to answer.
The more that we show Mary's image in Florida on the Internet, the more she appears in homes. We need to tell the world about Mary and her apparition in Florida.
Jesus speaks: My message to you today is: this is serious. I want you, My shepherds, to be a body united in deep prayer at every moment. Be aware of your connection to one another in your hearts in deep love, pleading to the Father, offering yourselves at every moment united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Your offering will be most pleasing to Him when you come in Our pure and holy Hearts. The devil will try to distract you, to take you from your mission of constant connection with your God, united as one body.
Wherever you are, hear My words spoken from My lips as I offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to the Father. Come in such purity as spouses of the Lamb, dwelling in the Heart of the Mother and My Heart.
Hear the words, "through Him, with Him and in Him".
Pray the Our Father and hear the words at Mass, "For the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory are Yours, now and forever".
Do not let Satan divide you by his tauntings. Your hearts must be united in holy love. Recognize that others have imperfections. Pray for them. Do not let their sins stop you. You must realize the world contains so much evil, that is the truth. But likewise there is so much good. You must live to help My love abound.
There will always be the ones who live to deceive, the ones who lie. Your strength and your power is in Me. If you falter for 5 days and do not pray, the world will be affected. You must pray and not give in to worry. I will hear you. I have all the power. Strive to feel that oneness as a body at every moment, pleading and pleading for your Church and your world.
Messenger: We are a family in the Shepherds of Christ united in deep union in Their Hearts, pleading through the powerful intercession of Jesus and Mary. We are united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass at every second, praying for our priests. Will you pray with us?
Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
We are spouses of the Lamb.
I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you in love. We are one body, we are the body of Christ. We are the members of the Church. The Church is wed to Him.
The Lamb was slain for our sins. We intercede for our Church and our world in the holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary. He is our Spouse. He loves us so much. He is the Bridegroom of our souls.
I saw the gold cup of His Blood. It glistened and was molded so purely. I knew that the power was in Him. I am a spouse, I come in purity and submissiveness. I give myself to Him. He is the Head of the body, His Church. I am a member. The foot is not the head of the body. Neither am I the head. I am a member of His body through Baptism. I intercede with all my heart in Him, but I may not even know what is happening. I keep in my heart always, THROUGH HIM, WITH HIM AND IN HIM. I live my life with the desire to live in purity, living in faith, recognizing my weakness and dependence on Him. I minister to those in my family, I am a mother, a wife, a child of my mother. I do His will, that is what is most important to me, doing His will and uniting at every moment to God in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. I am a spouse of the Lamb. I offer the Sacrifice united to Him. It is most pure, for I unite to Their holy and pure Hearts. I do not see the fruits. I have faith that He will hear my plea. I am united as much as possible to the offering of that Sacrifice. I assume my role. I do not shun my duty, and not do as God wills me to do. Everything should be in balance, according to His will. I cannot take care of adult children all my life. This is not His will. I must take care of children under a certain age, this is His will. I do not abandon my children, I am always their mother. I pray for them constantly in all I do. I should do everything in proper proportion according to His will, united with all others in love. We must be hearts of love, depending on Him, our beloved Christ, Head of the mystical body. I AM a spouse of the LAMB, I give my life to you, in loving service. I am under His feet. God the Father, help me to know Your will and help us to be instruments to help lead the Church and the world into a greater love union with God. God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit we give ourselves to You and ask You to help us. We love, praise, worship and honor You.
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