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 25, 2002

February 26th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 9 Period II.
The Novena Rosary Mystery
for February 26th is Glorious.

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


      

Prayer for the spiritual and financial
success of the priestly newsletter

    "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."

            

February 25, 2002 after 8:00 Mass

Messenger:   Our Lord comes to me the King of Glory at
                            St. Michael Church.

                       Oh how deeply I love and adore Him.
                             How deeply I experience love inside of me.
                             Oh I labor for Thee my Savior.
                             For Thee my beloved Father and Son and
                                 and Holy Spirit.
                             The depth I know things I can never
                                 explain.
                             It is as being locked in a tomb wanting
                                  to shout about the day of Victory
                                  and all that comes forth are the
                                  muffled tones of one so filled with
                                  the knowledge of the glory to come.

                       And I sit by a quiet little brook and my
                               peace is in Him.

   

      

February 25, 2002 continues

Messenger:             My thirsting for completeness in Him
                                   is so great.
                               My suffering so great for those who
                                   offend Him and do not understand.
                               I am here as in a desertland, wanting
                                   to do more to love Him and
                                   honor Him, yet struggling so
                                   because of my own imperfections to
                                   love more perfectly, to live more
                                   deeply for Him.

                       My heart pines and cries for the courts of
                           the Lord and yet my desire to help
                           save souls wells inside of me.

                       Oh it is a well of the finest
                           gifts that springs forth
                           from our beloved Church
                           that feeds my starving soul.

                       And my heart cries for Him and the
                           gift of Himself He gives me.

                       Oh font of life I adore Thee so.
                       Oh glorious God, my soul sings
                           of Your Greatness.

                       I long to be embraced by Your
                           comforting arms and lay
                           my head on Your warm
                           chest that contains the Most
                           Sacred Heart consumed with love
                           for souls.

  

   

February 25, 2002 continues

Messenger:   Oh God that I could ever remain with
                           You in this union here, for my heart
                           pants for Thee.

                       And all through the Mass, I incessantly tell
                           my God of my burning love. I cry out
                           inside. Oh God my Father I love
                           Thee so, Oh my Jesus lavishly pour
                           forth the love of Your most
                           Sacred Eucharistic Heart upon
                           me so I will be quenched by
                           the fires of Thy love and fed
                           by Thee.

                       Oh Holy Spirit consume my soul for
                           love of God and all men and
                           grace me with such a satisfaction
                           of being so united to Thee.

                       This is what I crave to experience
                           this deeper life in Thee.

                       My life I give Thee to do with as You
                           desire.

                       I beg for forgiveness for my offenses
                           against Thee and ask for an
                           outpouring of Your grace to
                           consume my tired weary soul.

                       Quench me, fill me, love me,
                           mold me into Your vessel
                           to spread Your love to this world.

                       Oh words seem so inadequate and they do not
                           ever exist to explain the depth
                           of my heart and the assuredness
                           of the reality of this
                           grandurous reward God has for
                           those who love and serve Him.

                       My heart is consumed with love
                           for Thee.
                       Help me to know You more and serve
                           You with greater love, Amen.

                       Oh Eucharistic Heart of Jesus flood
                           my soul with the gift of
                           Thy precious grace, I love Thee so much.

  


    

Picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

I Am Here in the Tabernacle

God's Blue Book II Cover

January 15, 1994 9:15 a.m.
St. Michael Church

Jesus speaks: You come here and I am waiting. Let go of all distractions Satan busies your mind with. You have come to adore your King. Block out all and focus on the King of Glory.

    I am Jesus. I am God. I am your all. I am God. Worship, honor, glory--all is My due. Blow the trumpets, sound the horns! There are others to walk about, but no thought, not even a prayer, for the King of Glory.

    I am very sad and hurt by all who neglect Me and do not come to Me as I sit here. Where are they? I am Jesus, Son of the Living God. If for one instant I were to cease to think of them, they would cease to be, but they do not even realize Who I am. My heart is so sad. What do they think, for their busy lives? They are in the presence of a King and they don't even recognize Me!

    It delights Me so that you have come to Me. I love you with such intense love and I want to give you so many gifts. Come and be with Me in silence. Sit and I will help you block out distractions. I am the King of Glory. I am God. If people come to My house here, it is not to pray, outside of Mass. They come to fix the church and miss the King of Glory. Blind! How blind they are!

    Blessed be the name of God. At His Name every knee must bow. I am Jesus, Son of the Living God and have spoken to you, My child. Be with Me. Tell your friends to come and bang on the doors to My church. The priests lock Me up all day. Those who want to come cannot get in! Tell them to come and adore Me and open My doors.

end of January 15, 1994 message   

            


   

February 25, 2002 message continues

Messenger:           We received this letter from a sister in
                            Nigeria with a request for material for
                            33 religious schools.

                            Here is her letter and the letter I wrote in Response.

   


 

                              _____ Ministries

                  Nigeria

Prayer, Teaching, Child Care Centres,
Youth Ministry, Home Visitation,
Missionary work, Parish & Catechetical work,
Caring for the Sick & Aged

(Motto: That is all things God through Mary: may be glorified.)

 

Dear Rev. Fr. Carter,

Because of your wonderful Union, I feel you and your family workers are blessed and will you continue to do so forever, Amen.

On behalf of the schools and parishes listed, _______ are soliciting for your assistance in the areas of prayer booklets, ie Holy Novena Booklets, Spirituality Handbook etc and rosaries to be distributed among pupils and students prayer groups.

...(she accounts the urgent problem facing the religious schools there)

Please assist us with prayer booklets and rosaries... Pupils and students needs spiritual weapons and prayer directives to assist their faith(s) and prayerful efforts. These spiritual materials are spiritually motivating and stimulating, as such, the key to draw souls to the Lord and His Blessed Mother.

Please value this request to be very important and urgently extend your classical work to the listed catholic schools and parishes who are facing ... persecutions. These schools have applied to the counseling office for booklets and other sacramentals whereas we do not have any within our reach. We got your address and the Counseling authorities have discussed over the issue and decided to compile the addresses and send to you for your assistance. Having heard and seen your noble commitments to Propagate the faith. Please most of these schools and parishes listed are in remote areas. We would highly appreciate your kind attention and immediate assistance.

Kindly send your booklets and rosaries directly to the parish priests, principal(s) and chaplain(s) of the listed schools and parishes. We all will be remembering you daily on the Altar of our Lord and His Blessed Mother, Mother of the church.

Sincerely in Mary, Mother of Mercy.

Sr._____________
  
Vocational Directoress

     


     

February 25, 2002

  

Dear Sister,

        I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you in
love. This is a very short consecration we use to
consecrate our hearts to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary
together in love. This helps us stay in one mind
and one heart to do God's will. It is really powerful
in the schools. Instead of 50 different wills, the
children are one in Their Hearts doing more
together the will of God. It is very powerful. We
also consecrate others hearts and places to the
Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart as far as
we are able.

        We want the Sacred Heart to reign in all
places of the earth and in all hearts. Putting
a picture of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate
Heart there helps a lot. We have a short or
longer programs to consecrate places,
homes, schools families to the Sacred Heart
and Immaculate Heart. We have little
cards you can give to people with the
consecration to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate
Heart on it and a picture of the two Hearts
so they can be honored.

        If you want this write to us.

        Saying I consecrate this place to the Sacred
Heart and Immaculate Heart is so powerful,
then praying the Shepherds of Christ Prayer
Manual Prayers will help.

        Our Lord promised Fr. Carter many
graces to those who pray the prayers and
make Jesus the King and Center of their
hearts.

        Our Lady said at Fatima the Bishops
need to consecrate their dioceses to the Sacred
Heart and Immaculate Heart.

        In your situation it would be helpful
to consecrate the peoples hearts to the
Sacred Heart and Immaculate
Heart as far as you are able. We can e-mail you
pictures of the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart
that can be downloaded if you have this
capability. The children could have little
cards of the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart to
put the pictures in their rooms.

        We also spread the Blood of Jesus on people
and cast the devil far away and ask for a
special outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the place or/
and the world.

  The 6:20 P.M. Prayers we pray in the Holy
Spirit Novena does this.

  I can tell you if you follow the Prayers -
Holy Spirit Novena and Shepherds of Christ Prayer (red) Manual and pray the rosary, you will get much
grace.

  Fr. Carter founded our movement. Besides
sending the Newsletters to 75,000 priests
in the world, the co-equal purpose was
to begin prayer chapters all over the world
praying for the priests, the Church and the
world.

  Fr. Carter, S.J. had a doctors in theology and
taught at a prominent Jesuit college for over
31 years and authored 18 books on the spiritual
life.

  We will be sending the Priestly Newsletter Book
to you.

   When I realized we hadn't answered your
letter and supplied you with the Prayers on
sheets, I was sick to tears, because of my
deep love and concern for you.

    The world needs your prayers.

    In doing the short morning offering on
the card provided, uniting all you do,
sufferings and joys, you can help to bring down
so much grace for yourselves and the
world.

     My name is Rita Ring. I write extensively
on the Mass and the rosary and deeper
union with Jesus.

     Fr. Carter was my spiritual director for
over 6˝ years in this end of his life.

     We have a big international movement
Shepherds of Christ praying so fervently for
the priests, the Church and the world.

     This is one of our centers in Clearwater,
Florida. Mary appears on the
building. We prayed for this and Father prayed for
this before his death for years to get the loan
on the building. Now, almost the last year
of 2000 we got the loan after operating
out of the building since she appeared
almost December 17, 1996. Enclosed are pictures.

      Fr. Carter was given this instruction to
begin the Movement Shepherds of Christ.

     We will send the prayer sheets 8˝ x 11
of the Red Prayer Manual and legal size
paper with the Holy Spirit Novena on it.

     We pray under the image, in our
Eucharistic Center China, Indiana and
all over the world at 6:20.

      Yellow Book
       Red Book
       Rosary.

   We pray for the
priests, Church and the world.

  Africa is so very dear to me. We will
be deeply united in our prayers to you
and all your schools.

  We must send the materials in a
more reasonable way in the mail, but the materials
will be sent to all the schools you
mentioned.

  If you have an e-mail, please
give us your address.

I have written many rosary books,
including coloring rosary books,
Mass coloring book, elderly rosary
books.

We have many videos for the elderly -
a Mass video 30 minutes encouraging
them to pray the morning offering.

Oh so much suffering wasted because
people do not offer it up.

We need to pray the little morning
offering and offer up all we do united
to the Mass.

Oh sister, the world needs the prayers
of your children in the schools and needs
your children learning how to pray
to spread the Blood of Jesus on the
people and consecrate their hearts and homes
and cast the devil far away and beg for that
special outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

Oh, Our Lady is appearing to
tell the world to pray this way and
praying the rosary with the meditations with
the school children is so important. They
can help to bring down great grace for
your area and the souls of the earth.

The victory is won, we must make
Jesus the King and Center of our hearts and
homes.

Please write to me and Consecrate that
whole area to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate
Heart daily.

We will send the material now to you and
others later.

Our e-mail address is on everything.
    info@sofc.org Attn: Doris 
  

                                  With much love,
   

                                     Rita Ring

We will send you the
Priestly Newsletter Book II.
We will write soon.

        


  

Excerpt from February 15, 2002 message 

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

  Mary talks to the Nursing Homes
  Video Session #3

Shepherds of Christ Ministries

P.O. Box 193, Morrow, OH 45152
toll free 1-888-211-3041
fax: 1-513-932-6791
www.sofc.org
Rosary Meditations received before the exposed Eucharist
(Instruction for Leaders Included)

                           12) Little People's Mass Book

Little People's
Mass Book

                           13) Little People's Coloring Book of the Mass

     

February 15, 2002 message continues

Mary speaks:               I ask you to pray for these needs on the list. Those
                                who can, can pray hourly. 
  

end of excerpt from February 15, 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

    

      


  

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.

          

    


  

      

The Story of the Crucifix Video

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Nursing Home Mass Video

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connection, you should be able to watch the movie live.

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