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.

February 23, 2002

February 24th Holy Spirit Novena Scripture selection is Day 7 Period II.

The Novena Rosary Mystery for February 24th Joyful.

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Rosary in Sidney on Tuesday February 26, 2002
Call Morrow for details
   

Prayer for the spiritual and financial
success of the priestly newsletter

Messenger:   We have some back bills from printing 
                    old Newsletters and Prayer Manuals and 
                    settling with our printer that total $19,500. 

                    We really must pay these bills immediately 
                    and the building payment is due March 1st.

                    We received donations for the Priestly Newsletter
                    Book II and the Prayer Manuals and it is
                    printed and will be sent in a few days.

                    Please, please pray for us.

    "Father, we ask Your special blessings upon the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ. We ask that You open the priest-readers to the graces You wish to give them through this chosen instrument of Your Son. We also ask that You provide for the financial needs of the newsletter and the Shepherds of Christ Associates. We make our prayer through Jesus, in the Holy Spirit, with Mary at our side. Amen."

Prayer for Priests "Lord Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the Flock, we pray that in the great love and mercy of Your Sacred Heart You attend to all the needs of Your priest-shepherds throughout the world. We ask that You draw back to Your Heart all those priests who have seriously strayed from Your path, that You rekindle the desire for holiness in the hearts of those priests who have become lukewarm, and that You continue to give Your fervent priests the desire for the highest holiness. United with Your Heart and Mary’s Heart, we ask that You take this petition to Your heavenly Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit. Amen."

Father signs his Priestly Newsletter Book I
in Florida - February 25, 1998

Good bye to Father Carter
December 14, 2000

February 23, 2002 message continues

Messenger:   If you can please help us we desperately 
                    need funds. 

                    We take credit cards - Call the Morrow Center.
  

              There is a new homepage today. 
              It may undergo new changes in the 
                days to come. 
              We will keep you informed.

~ May 10, 2000 ~

The Mass

    Today at Mass I realized how the whole Body of Christ is united in that Mass. I as a member wanted to be so united to the whole Body as one body pleading for grace for the sick earth and giving the greatest honor and love to God, worshipping Him because I love Him so.

    I am so one with all His creatures in the Mass and filled with such love and appreciation for all He has given us as He dwells so deeply in me, in my heart in Holy Communion. I see myself and Him as a couple. He is the bridegroom, I am the bride and yet I am so one in Him, my bridegroom, my love, my all.

    Now I feel such devotion to Him in the Eucharist and I love to gaze on the Exposed Eucharist and just be with Him. I love this so much. I love to sit for so long and pray my rosary and just be there and be with Him taking everything in my life to Him, recording my special prayers for others as I am with Him so I can remember them hourly and pray for them. He fills me so in those quiet times when I am with Him and those around me add to the joy if they are devoutly honoring Him in quiet prayer. It is a new dimension for me to be with others and be so united to Him, yet feel fullness in my adoration because others are joined with me. I love the Body of Christ. I am one with my fellow members in deep, deep love in Him. I love to pray and intercede to God for our needs. My times of quiet with Him bring me great, heaven-like joy, but I know it is God’s will I work hard in spreading the News of the Kingdom and being loving to all others, serving Him and doing His will. Being loving to others means being as He desires us to be. A mother is not loving when she does not instruct her children or care for them. Being loving means living in the truth, doing what He wants even when it may be easier to ignore some things. Holy Mother the Church must teach the children what God wants them to know so they can be holy and that their souls will be saved. Loving is being as God desires us to be.

    Living every moment according to His will. We must seek to live every moment as He desires. When we do not do what is God’s will, we affect others in the body of Christ and the world. Since we are one body, every person must realize how our every action affects others and strive to do His will. If one person is willful and does not do God’s will, he affects everyone else to some degree.

    In the Reign of the Sacred Heart, all will live according to God’s will in great harmony and love. In our communities of Shepherds of Christ there should be great harmony, if all are trying to live as one body doing God’s will. What one does willfully affects the other members of the body. Like a symphony, the more they follow the conductor and act as one, the more attuned is the beautiful tone that one hears as they unite to play the composition.

end  excerpt from May 10, 2000

    

Excerpt from February 15, 2002 message 

February 15, 2002 message continues

end of excerpt from February 15, 2002

      

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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

    

      

Messenger:  Jesus wishes that we give our hearts to Him and Mary. 

The following Valentine can be given to Jesus and Mary any day of the year. It is an act of love that would greatly please Him.

Use the following Valentine to fill in your name and the date you gave it to Him.
  

MY VALENTINE FOR JESUS AND MARY AND THE WORLD I _________________ give my heart to You Jesus and Mary on this day _________________ I promise to help spread the devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.