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Prayer for Grace for our Country

Dear Father united to Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present, celebrated around the world, in the Holy Spirit. We offer up all we do united to the Mass. We unite in one mind and one heart as members of the mystical body of Christ, with Christ our head in the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary, through the powerful intercession of Mary with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory, and we beg for the saving grace, for our country, the United States. Please help us. We further pray for unity to always do the will of God in love. We spread the Blood of Jesus on the leaders and people of the United States and cast the devil into hell. We consecrate our country to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart and all our dioceses, and beg for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. God help us. We pray for our families, the priests, the Church and the world. In the Name of Jesus please hear us, we pray. We pray for our president and leaders. We pray that we are united as one nation under God to work together in love as God wants.  

 

 February 26, 2022

July 31, 1994

Words of Jesus to Members of Shepherds of Christ Associates:

"My beloved priest-companion, I intend to use the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the movement, Shepherds of Christ Associates, in a powerful way for the renewal of My Church and the world.

"I will use the newsletter and the chapters of Shepherds of Christ Associates as a powerful instrument for spreading devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart.

"I am calling many to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. To all of them I will give great blessings. I will use them as instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy Spirit."

- Message from Jesus to Father Edward J. Carter, S.J., Founder, as given on July 31, 1994,
feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)

 

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       February 25, 2022

R. God knows us by name.
God created us with
special talents, we may not
even know we have.
We are the creation of God
the Father.

We were uniquely created
by God for a purpose.

We are sisters and brothers
and we have each other.

We are connected in our
hearts, even when we are
far away.

Love is what we know in
our hearts.
God: Father, Son and Holy
Spirit loves us in our life,
they don’t stop loving us,
even when we sin.

Jesus died for our sins.
Jesus loves us so much, He
wants us to grow in love in
His image and likeness.

God has a plan and He has
given us the unique talents
to do all He wants us to do.

We must believe in this to
do what He calls us to.

Can we dare to believe how
much God loves us. This is
real freedom, believing in
God’s love for us.

It’s real important to God
that we admit it when we
are wrong and tell God we
are sorry and want to make
recompense for what
damage we did. It’s
important to God that, with
a firm purpose of
amendment we don’t want
to sin again.
It’s important to God we do
say we are sorry.
God created us and put us
on earth to be purified and
grow in His image and
likeness. God intends us to
grow in love. God wants to
love and operate from us.
God wants us to help build
God’s Kingdom on earth.

God created us and wants
us to return to our true
home, someday, in heaven.

The devil wants a person to
be filled with sin, so the
devil tells a person they are
not wrong when they sin.
The devil wants people to
tell themselves, they are
never wrong,
so they can keep
defending their wrong and
lying about what they did
that was sinful.

The devil can try to tempt
them to continue lying
about sin being wrong, by
appealing to their pride.
Then tempts them they are
never wrong when they sin,
they can rationalize they
never are wrong.

The devil wants to make
right - wrong and wrong -
right.

The devil works on people's
pride and telling people
that relationships with
others don’t work because
others are not friends and
cannot be trusted.

We need each other. We
need to reach out and work
with trustworthy others
God put in our lives.

God loves us even when
we aren’t good. God wants
us to grow in obedience
and love and truth and
admit when we sin.
God wants us to love our
brothers and sisters.

Love makes the world go
round.

When people love each
other, they work with each
other to work things out.

Love finds a way!!

Loving each other helps
people work things out.
That is how marriage is
supposed to work,
Marriage, for better or for
worse, in sickness and in
health, until death do us
part.

Clothes don’t make the
man, it’s what’s in our
hearts.

Never underestimate a
heart full of love and
determination,
Love Jesus!!

Love God.

Never underestimate a
heart full of love and God!!

God is all powerful.

God is love.

Most Sacred Heart of
Jesus, we place our trust in
Thee. 

 

May 5, 2019

 

R. With God all things are
possible.

Elizabeth conceived John
the Baptist in her old age.

Mary conceived the child
Jesus through the power of
the Holy Spirit.

Jesus died on the cross
and rose from the dead.

Relationships are one of the
greatest gifts God gives to
men, unity, in love to God
and others. And heaven is
perfect oneness with God.
I was 5 years old when God
called my mom home, 
closure, relationship, a little
girl and her mother.
We all have had losses, I still
cry about Fr. Carter, my
dear Priest of Jesus, but
God took him home and
Mary, and Dan and my
mom and my dad and
Catherine and Jim
and 2 brothers I never met
and Rosella, my step mom,
and lots of others… 

I know God is love and
Jesus died for me and you
so we can be forgiven, have
relationships and go to
heaven. Alleluia.

What is important is not
what others think of us, but
what God thinks of us
when we die. Alleluia.
Praise God in all His
goodness and love. Reality
is in Him. Worship Him, Love
Him, Adore Him!!!
God is All Good.

His promises are real and
Jesus loved us to His
death.

Sing: A Song from Jesus

R. But we say 

Lord increase our faith. Alleluia!! Amen!

 

      February 25, 2022

Sorrowful Mysteries

The Agony in the Garden

1. Matthew 26: 36-46

Then Jesus came with them to a plot of land called Gethsemane; and he said to his disciples, 'Stay here while I go over there to pray.' He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee with him. And he began to feel sadness and anguish. Then he said to them, 'My soul is sorrowful to the point of death. Wait here and stay awake with me.' And going on a little further he fell on his face and prayed. 'My Father,' he said, 'if it is possible, let this cup pass me by. Nevertheless, let it be as you, not I, would have it.' He came back to the disciples and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, 'So you had not the strength to stay awake with me for one hour? Stay awake, and pray not to be put to the test. The spirit is willing enough, but human nature is weak.' Again, a second time, he went away and prayed: 'My Father,' he said, 'if this cup cannot pass by, but I must drink it, your will be done!' And he came back again and found them sleeping, their eyes were so heavy. Leaving them there, he went away again and prayed for the third time, repeating the same words. Then he came back to the disciples and said to them, 'You can sleep on now and have your rest. Look, the hour has come when the Son of man is to be betrayed into the hands of sinners. Get up! Let us go! Look, my betrayer is not far away.'
 

2. Jesus took Peter, James and John into the Garden.

3. Jesus wanted them to pray and be there for love and support.

4. Jesus saw all the sins of all men in His Divine knowing and in His great love He was willing to pay for our sins.

5. Jesus paid for the sins we did and for the sins people did to us.

6. We can really say when someone sins against us, they do it to Jesus.

7. And when we love others and treat them kind we do that to Jesus.

8. What we do to others we do to Jesus.

9. We are to operate more and more as Jesus operates in us.

10. Jesus wants us to ask for forgiveness when we sin. Some never want to admit they are wrong and justify what is wrong as right and what is right as wrong.

 

The Scourging at the Pillar

1. Luke 23: 15-19, 22

...As you can see, the man has done nothing that deserves death, so I shall have him flogged and then let him go.' But as one man they howled, 'Away with him! Give us Barabbas!' (This man had been thrown into prison because of a riot in the city and murder.)

And for the third time he spoke to them, 'But what harm has this man done? I have found no case against him that deserves death, so I shall have him flogged and then let him go.'
 

2. When others hurt us in sinning against us, this may cause great wounds. Jesus suffered for these wounds done to us.

3. God wants us to pray for our persecutors.

4. Our lives are very short, we must pray to know and do the will of God in love.

5. Jesus shows us when it is hard for us to do, He did what was hard because it was what He was supposed to do.

6. Jesus shows us that we will suffer, if we follow in His footprints.

7. We go through life and have crosses everyday, sometimes they can seem very heavy.

8. Oh Jesus You endured the whippings and tearing of Your flesh at the pillar, we as members of the mystical body of Christ will endure suffering too because of sickness, because of evil in the world, because of selfishness among many we love.

9. We will experience crosses in losses, crosses in sufferings, crosses in disappointments, and misunderstandings, in helping sick members in our family. It can seem so very hard we can feel weary!!

10. Jesus was whipped from head to toe and He endured it all for us. When we pray and offer up sufferings to Him He received our comfort in His bitter passion.

 

The Crowning with Thorns 

1. Mary is the Queen of Peace. Mary asked us to pray the rosary. Today is a day when power may be a god to some at the expense of many.

2. God calls us to love our brothers. The deadly sins are really sins of selfishness. Pride is a sin where people put themselves above God and also they can see themselves and disregard others: their authority, their respect, their position, etc.

3. The deadly sins of jealousy and envy can be looking at others in very unloving ways. God commands us to love our brothers as ourselves.

4. Slothfulness is a sin where we waste time doing things that are not God's will, or do nothing and ignore God's will for us.

5. Jesus is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. We are here to spread the Good News and promote the Kingdom of God.

6. The deadly sins are bad habits that serve ourselves in more and more selfish ways.
   The first commandment tells us: God must be first in our lives, what we do to others we do to Jesus.

7. The devil wants us to put ourselves first. The devil wants us to rule and seek to fill our ego more and more.

8. The greatest commandment tells us:

Matthew 22: 34-40 

The greatest commandment of all

But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees they got together and, to put him to the test, one of them put a further question,   36 ‘Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?’ Jesus said to him, ‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself.  On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets too.’
 

9. Romans 8:5-9

Those who are living by their natural inclinations have their minds on the things human nature desires; those who live in the Spirit have their minds on spiritual things. And human nature has nothing to look forward to but death, while the Spirit looks forward to life and peace, because the outlook of disordered human nature is opposed to God, since it does not submit to God's Law, and indeed it cannot, and those who live by their natural inclinations can never be pleasing to God. You, however, live not by your natural inclinations, but by the Spirit, since the Spirit of God has made a home in you. Indeed, anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
 

10. 1 John 4:7-11

My dear friends, let us love one another, since love is from God and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. Whoever fails to love does not know God, because God is love. This is the revelation of God's love for us, that God sent his only Son into the world that we might have life through him. Love consists in this: it is not we who loved God, but God loved us and sent his Son to expiate our sins. My dear friends, if God loved us so much, we too should love one another.

 

 

The Carrying of the Cross

1. Jesus Is Condemned to Death

Jesus: My dear child, with angry hearts and hatred on their faces, they poked at Me and condemned Me to death. I stood so silent, My hands tied, in perfect peace, because I knew the Father's love. I knew the Father's Will. You too will stand your trials in perfect peace, the more you realize the immense love the Father, Son and Holy Spirit have for you. Pray to the Spirit to transform you more and more into My image and, through this transformation, you will be led ever closer to the Father. Oh, how I love you!

2. They Give Jesus the Cross

Jesus: They gave Me a heavy cross, laden with the sins of the world. They placed it on My shoulder. It was so heavy I felt as if My shoulder would break. I ask you to carry little crosses, to experience little pains. I could not remove this cross from My shoulder. The weight was unbearable. It is through My suffering and death that you receive new life. It is through your sufferings this day that you will grow in your life with Me. Oh, child, I loved you so much that I took up the cross of salvation. I love you. Please realize that I am talking to you here. To My death I loved you. Oh, how I love you!

3. Jesus Falls the First Time

Jesus: The cross was so heavy I could hardly walk. I held on to My cross for greatest love of you and in compliance with the Will of My Father. It became so hard to walk! The cross was so heavy! I fell. I fell and the cross fell on Me. They poked at Me, they struck Me, they demanded I get up. The pain from the instruments they used to poke Me and strike Me was so great! I somehow managed to get up.

When you fall under the weight of your cross, come to My Eucharistic Heart. I am no less present in the tabernacle and in the Eucharist than on the day I carried My cross. I wait with the same love that I had for you when I carried this cross and suffered such agony. Oh, how I love you!

4. Jesus and Mary Meet

Jesus: I saw the face of My beautiful Mother. She was weak, her face reddened and full of tears. I saw her tender heart, her love, her anguish, her pain. I saw My dear Mother Mary. My Heart was comforted by the sight of her, but torn by her suffering.

Mary: As I looked into the eyes of my beloved Son, I saw His love. His head, bleeding and wounded. His body weak. His clothes covered with blood. I looked into His eyes and I saw His love for you. I call out to you today. I appear today with a face full of anguish and tears. I appear to call you back to the love of my Son. See through my eyes, as I peer into His eyes, the love He has for you this day to give of Himself for you. Oh, He loves you so much, my little children. See through my eyes the love of my Son. Oh, how He loves you!

5. Simon of Cyrene Is Forced to Help Jesus Carry His Cross

Jesus: The cross was so heavy I could not move. My persecutors became angry and forced a man to help Me. The cross was so heavy the two of us could barely move it. How is your cross today? Does it seem so heavy you cannot go on? I am forever watching you. When you are suffering the greatest, I am very close to you. It is in immense suffering that you realize My great love for you. Pray for grace to do always the Father's Will. Pray for grace to grow in your knowledge and love of Me.

6. Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus

Jesus: My face was covered with blood. From the crowd Veronica came forward with a cloth to wipe My face. On the cloth I gave to you an imprint of My bloodied face. This, My children, remains with you this day as a sign of My immense love for you. But more than any cloth, look beyond the visible consecrated host. I, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, remain with you, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, in the Eucharist this day, waiting and longing to be with you. Oh, how I love you!

7. Jesus Falls the Second Time

Jesus: Oh, dear ones, the road became harder and harder to walk. The cross was becoming heavier, My body weaker and weaker. My shoulders and arms hurt so much! My head throbbed as I walked. The blood came from My body, from My head to My feet. I was covered with open wounds. I could not go any farther. I stumbled and fell. Again they poked at Me, only harder, and with such hatred they kicked Me. Such vileness in the hearts of men! My greatest agony was not the agonies of My body, but the agonies of My heart for the love I have for all My precious souls. I loved them so dearly. I loved those who persecuted Me. Oh, how I love you!

8. Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem

Jesus: The women came to Me with their children, their tender hearts crying and wanting to comfort Me. I saw their love, their care. I saw the coldness of men's hearts for all time, the hatred, the anger, the sins, all the souls that, despite all of My sufferings and death, would be condemned to eternal damnation. I told the women to weep not for Me, but for themselves and their children. My greatest agonies were the agonies of My Most Sacred Heart. Oh, how I love you!

9. Jesus Falls the Third Time

Jesus: I fell hard the third time. I was so weakened I could not go on. My body collapsed under the cross from such exhaustion! My child, My child, My greatest agonies were not the wounds to the body. They were the wounds I experienced to My heart. Do you know a little more now how I love you? It is in meditating on My Passion and death that you will realize My immense love for you. When you fall, when you struggle, I give you the grace to get up. I never give you more than you can handle. Your strength will come from Me. Come to My Eucharistic Heart. I am waiting for you this day. Oh, how I love you!

10. Jesus Is Stripped of His Garments

Jesus: They took Me to the hill to crucify Me. They angrily stripped Me of My garments. They took off My clothes to whip Me. They had covered My bloody wounds with a dirty purple robe. Now, total surrender-they took off My clothes. I showed you the way to surrender, always complying with the Will of the Father. It is in living in His Will that you will have peace and joy, and life eternal some day. Oh, how I love you!

They Nail Him to the Cross

R. See Mary as she holds the little Baby Jesus. See her as she washes His tender hands and feet. See her now as she watches as they pound into those same hands and feet the gigantic nails that fix Jesus to the cross.

Mary: Oh, my dear ones, my heart was torn in my chest as they nailed His hands and feet to the cross. I ask you this day to walk the Passion with me and see through my eyes the love He has for you. He truly was nailed to the cross.

Jesus: They pounded the nails into My first hand, then they stretched My body and nailed My other hand. The blood poured from these wounds that went totally through My hands. My pain was so immense, but then they nailed My feet! You do not know what pain I suffered, My child. My children, My children, for each one of you I suffered this pain. Oh, how I loved you!

 

The Crucifixion

1. Mark 15: 24-38

Then they crucified him, and shared out his clothing, casting lots to decide what each should get. It was the third hour when they crucified him. The inscription giving the charge against him read, ‘The King of the Jews’. And they crucified two bandits with him, one on his right and one on his left.

The passers–by jeered at him; they shook their heads and said, ‘Aha! So you would destroy the Temple and rebuild it in three days! Then save yourself; come down from the cross!’ The chief priests and the scribes mocked him among themselves in the same way with the words, ‘He saved others, he cannot save himself. Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, for us to see it and believe.’ Even those who were crucified with him taunted him.

When the sixth hour came there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, ‘Eloi, eloi, lama sabachthani?’ which means, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ When some of those who stood by heard this, they said, ‘Listen, he is calling on Elijah.’ Someone ran and soaked a sponge in vinegar and, putting it on a reed, gave it to him to drink saying, ‘Wait! And see if Elijah will come to take him down.’ But Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last. And the veil of the Sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom.  
 

2. Jesus Dies on the Cross

(Silence.)

R. He hung for three agonizing hours on the cross against the darkened sky. His greatest agonies were not the agonies of His body, but those of His Heart for the great love He has for each and every soul.

Jesus: I gave Myself to you, My dear ones. I gave My all. I hung with My arms spread in total surrender. My head was punctured; My hands and feet were nailed to the cross. I gave Myself to you. I give Myself to you this day in the Eucharist. I give Myself to you. I, God, give you Myself! What more do you want?

Song: Oh, burning Heart, oh, Love divine, etc.

R. They pierced His Heart with a lance and what flowed forth was blood and water, the sacramental life of the Church, water for Baptism and blood for the Eucharist. His life, death and resurrection live on in the Church this day.

3. Mary's Message - from the Rosary of August 27, 1996

Mary:  I stood beneath the cross of my Son, and my Heart was in such pain for I saw Him before my eyes. I saw Him covered with blood. I saw Him die. My Heart, my children, my Heart to watch my Son, but my Heart, my Heart, how I suffered for my little children of the world that give in to this world and give up the love of my Son. O my little children of light, I give you this message. Carry this light into the darkness for your Mother Mary, for I stood beneath the cross and I cried. I cried for the little ones. I cried for the young ones, the ones that do not care and will lose their souls. How do I make you see for you will not listen to me? What can I do? I come. I appear. I beg. I plead. I give you these gifts from my Son, and you reject me. I do not deliver messages very often anymore for I have been ignored. The message is the same. You do not read the messages I have given to you. Please help me. Help the little children. I appear. I appear. I appear, and I am ignored. I stood beneath the cross, and I cried. I cried, and my Heart was in such anguish for my little children, for I am searching for them this day as I searched for the Child Jesus. Please, please help me. I cannot hold back the hand of my Son any longer. I am Mary, your Mother. I ask you to help my children. You are my children of light. end of Mary's Message

  

4.

    Jesus hung on the cross for three agonizing hours to His death.
 

5. On either side was a thief. There was a good thief and a bad thief. The good thief asked Jesus to remember him when he came into His Kingdom.

The bad thief said "Save Yourself and us", the bad thief was so bitter.

6. Jesus Is Taken Down from the Cross and Placed in the Arms of His Mother

R. His totally lifeless body was placed in the arms of His most loving Mother. As she had held the little baby body in her arms, she now received His bloodied, bruised body in her arms. This is how He obeyed the Father's Will. Jesus gave His life for us. The Father gave His only Son because He loves us so much. Mary, His Mother, our Mother and the Mother of the Church, is forever by His side. See Jesus in the arms of His loving Mother under the cross. This is love.

Mary: I held His lifeless body in my arms. See through my eyes the love He has for you this day. He gives Himself to you today in the Eucharist. He loves you so much!

7. Jesus Is Locked in the Tomb

R. His enemies rolled the stone up to the tomb and were pleased to have buried Jesus. Mary, outside the tomb, wept bitterly. The cold reality that He was dead! But death has no power over Jesus for on the third day He rose, triumphant, from the tomb! We are partakers in His divine life. Death has no power over Jesus. He is with us this day. He comes to bring us life to the full. He loves us so much!

8. Jesus died and rose on the third day. This is the Pascal Mystery. We know that there is life after death because Jesus rose from the dead.

9. Sing: A Song from Jesus

10. Sing: Glory, Glory, Glory Lord