Shepherds of Christ Daily Writing

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Please pray for repose of Sheila's soul. 

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Consecration Prayer for Peace

I consecrate Russia and the Ukraine to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

I further consecrate the priests, the Church and the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

I do this in the name of Jesus in as far as I am able, united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, praying to the Father, in the Holy Spirit, with all the angels and saints and the souls in purgatory through the powerful intercession of Mary, Queen of Peace. Amen.

I further consecrate myself, all members of my family and ask the Holy Spirit to fill us. I spread the Blood of Jesus on all above, I cast the devil into hell away from all of us and consecrate all persons, in as far as I am able,  to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart.

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.

       

            Morning Offering

    Dear Father,
    I offer up all I do all day united to Jesus
    in the Mass, in the Holy Spirit, through
    the powerful intercession of Mary, our
    spiritual Mother, with all the angels and
    saints, and the souls in purgatory, for
    the priest, the Church, and the world.

    We love You God so much.
    We thank You and adore You and
    petition You for our needs. Amen.       

 

      September 21, 2025

Prayer of Love to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

Most Sacred, beautiful Heart of Jesus, I trust in Thee.

Dear Father thank you for the precious love You have given me, all the years of my life.

I unite to You, Oh Holy Spirit, fill me with Your light and Your truth.

I see You, Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Your Heart is on fire for me, I love You so much, Jesus.

Dear Immaculate Heart of Mary, my Mother, please give me through your powerful intercession the motherly love I need to be an instrument in this world to answer that call you have asked for, to help the souls that need my prayers.

I offer up my sacrifices united to the Mass for the Grace to pray for the precious souls all over the world that need prayers today because of their hardened hearts, that refuse to turn from the evil they hold onto and live in the way Jesus shows us.

Dear Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I pray for the grace to help me in the Shepherds of Christ to be able to do what I have been called to do in Your Movement.

Please cast the devil into hell away from me and others in this mission, You have called in trying to accomplish what I have been called to do to help reach the souls You died for and to help these souls on this journey to one day go to heaven.

We have been called to love and adore and worship You, my Savior.
Oh Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, You are the Son of God, You are all good and loving, and worthy of my love, please spread Your Blood on me and this mission, You have called me to.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus,
You are all loving and worthy of my love. I love You with all my heart.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I consecrate my heart to Your most Sacred Heart.
My heart is overwhelmed in love of Thee.

Most Holy Immaculate Mary, I give you my heart now and ask you to protect me in your pure and Immaculate Heart.

Holy Spirit infuse into my intellect wisdom, knowledge and counsel. Fill me with the vision to see through the eyes of God, to love with the Heart of Jesus and to know and love as You direct me in the Fathers will. Help me to co-operate with this grace to walk in this way in loving conformity to the Father’s will.

Please help the truth to be in me.

Thank You my God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, come and abundantly dwell in me in great oneness. Help me to grow in loving.
Help me to be obedient to God’s will. Help me to be united in oneness with God and others.

   

January 5, 2026

A Little Prayer to the Holy Spirit for the New Year

Dear Holy Spirit come, enlighten my eyes.

Dear Holy Spirit,

Come into my intellect, infuse wisdom, knowledge and understanding, there.

Please give me courage to do what You want me to do.

I want to be one in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

Please work in Mary’s Heart in helping me to advance spiritually.

I love You Holy Spirit, please enlighten me now.

All for the honor and glory of God.

Amen.

   

March 8, 2026
A Few Thoughts

The joy is in Jesus.

If we try to put our joy in anything else, it isn’t anything like God.

Oh God give me the grace to love through Your Heart and see through Your eyes and be as You operate in me in this world.

Heavenly Father, I want to please You and want the world to be as You want it to be.
I pray therefore for the priests, the Church and the world.

The world belongs to Christ. Dear God help us to be more in the image of Jesus, help the Church to be in His image more and more and the world to be more in Jesus’ image.
This God, I pray with all my heart united to the Mass, celebrated around the world.

I love and adore You and thank You for everything, my precious God.

I love You so much, God.

I pray to You Father, in the name of Jesus, in the Holy Spirit, through the powerful intercession of Mary, our Mother, with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory. Amen.

I love Sunday.

Amen.

 

March 9, 2026
A Few Thoughts

Jesus was crowned with thorns.
Peace comes when we put God first.

He is above.
We obey the Father’s will.

1 Corinthians 15 - Christ the First Fruits.

A person that continues sinning, puts sin first.
They want the sin before their love of God.

Habitual sin without repentance done with malice of intent is in the mind of the sinner, first before God.

St. Ignatius talks about holding on to inordinate attachments.

When a person does this they cannot have that intimacy with God, that God, in love, wants with us.

The devil is the Father of lies - he works to deceive a soul, with pleasures that can be evil - showing right as wrong and wrong as right.

A person with the gifts of the Holy Spirit does not want to offend God, they want to please their Heavenly Father, like Jesus did.
A person loving God does not what anything but deeper unity with God - it is their joy, peace, love, unity and truth in their relationship with God.

Fr. Carter would say, sin was really hating oneself.

We can look at Christ and how He suffered to pay for our sins.

I think His crowned head, the abuse done to His head, His bloody eyes, teeth in His tongue, beaten ears, lacerated bloody face especially were for those putting sin before love of God, who is so good to us and loves us so much.

Jesus wore the ugly wounds of our sins.
His head crowned with thorns for men putting themselves and their sin before God.

Think of the holes in Jesus’ head from the thorns!!

Pain, suffering to Jesus’ body, especially wounds to His precious head.

Jesus is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

Think of the pain to His Heart, to love us so, so much and be treated with such rejection and rebellion by those He loved to His death on the cross for their sins.

Sin offends God, we should live to please our Heavenly Father,
Our life united to the Mass is an opportunity to live to please our Heavenly Father all day, in all we do by our giving our life to Him, in our Morning Offering!!

And I live to know, my beloved Father is well pleased.

Every Mass, such a declaration on my part wanting God the Father to know, I unite with Jesus to please my Heavenly Father.

Life is really following Jesus in our lives, living out His life, death and resurrection,
dying to our self-will not like Jesus - and living more transformed by every Mass.

Living to grow more in the life of Resurection here below.
I want to be abundantly filled more and more with His grace (His life in us) here below.

And that is love so we can say with St. Paul

Galations 2: I have been crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who live, but He who lives in me.

Come to me Lord and possess my soul.

Life is in Him.
God lives and loves in us, operates from our heart in the world.

What a gift intimacy with the Divine Almighty God, Bridegroom of our soul and the Heavenly Father is well pleased.

We are little ones, beloved of our Father.

Song: Of the Father’s Love Begotten

Jesus wore a crown of thorns for love of us!

Amen!

 

This Novena to St. Joseph
starts tomorrow.

 

March 10, 2024

Novena to St. Joseph, Patron and Father

Dear Saint Joseph,

I turn to you, you who cared and
protected the child Jesus and the
Virgin Mary.
You taught men and women, the
love of God by your example in life,
and by your faithfulness of living
your calling in greatest commitment
and love.

You loved Mary and Jesus with the
most gentle, bonds of love.

You showed us how you
lived in loving conformity to the
Heavenly Father's will.

You guided Jesus and Mary's precious
lives with the Holy Spirit, Spouse of
the Virgin Mother of God.

Protect us and our family this day and
every day of our lives, like
you did the Holy Family of Nazareth.
We seek your powerful intercession.

How intimately you knew and loved
Jesus and Mary. You were so close to
them. You showed us love.

Your heart was pure and gentle and
yet you were strong in being their
manly protector on earth, intercede
for us to depend more and more on
God for all our needs, for when we
are weak we are strong in God.

St. Joseph please intercede for a
peaceful and holy death for us and
our sick loved ones.
Amen.

St. Joseph help us now in this nine
day novena to you.
Amen.

 

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May 14, 2024

R. Dear Holy Spirit come to me, possess
my soul, I love You, Holy Spirit.
When I am weak, I am strong in You.
Outpour Your precious love to me. Amen.
I love You, God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Dear Holy Spirit infuse in my intellect
wisdom, knowledge and understanding.
Counsel me Holy Spirit from the mind of
God.

Help me, dear Holy Spirit to know the loving
embrace of God all the days of my life.
I turn to You. Amen.

When I find doing God's desire for my life
difficult give me the gift of fortitude, dear
Holy Spirit.
Sanctify my heart to act purely for the
honor and glory of God.
I may be willing, but I need Your gift to
give me courage to act as You desire.
Help me to know and love the heavenly
Father's will for me and to do it in love
for the honor and glory of God.

Help me to always put God first in my life,
in love for God in my heart.
Help me to walk realizing, I am the creature,
God is the Creator.

Help me to be patient and strong and
persevere in my life until I rest with Thee
forever in heaven.

Please Holy Spirit give me the gift of fear
of God that I do not offend you in sins
of unloving ways against God.
You are so good and deserving of all my
love.
I worship You and love You -
Help my interior disposition at Mass to be
that of purity in pleasing the Heavenly
Father, in my offering united to Jesus in
the Mass.
Dear Holy Spirit please help me in the gift
of piety to do that which pleases my Heavenly
Father with the tenderness as His little child.
Thank you God for all You give to me.
I pray this "All for the honor and Glory of
God". Amen.
 

Matthew 22: 36-40

'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.'

Dear Holy Spirit, strengthen our will and
move like a Divine breath in our soul, to
be docile sons and daughters of our
Heavenly Father. Amen.

Alleluia. 

March 23, 2024

Prayer for Sick and Caregivers at Home

R. Dear God,
I pray Heavenly Father with all my heart,
in the Name of Jesus, united to the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass, in the Holy Spirit,
with all the angels and saints and souls
in purgatory, through the powerful
intercession of Our Lady of Clearwater
to come to my aid now.

My loved one is very sick and he (she)
needs your help, God.
Outpour Your grace for me in this time
of need to have patience and wisdom to
deal with this now.

I give this sickness up to You, my God.
Please help me in dealing with this and
helping them in doing the right thing
and dealing with this.

I surrender this problem to You, my
Divine God.

Please send Your angels to help me.
Spread us all with the Precious Blood of
Jesus, cast the devil into the fires of hell,
dear Holy Spirit come to my aid.

I consecrate my home, ourselves to the
Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate
Heart of Mary, Thank You.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I place my
trust in Thee.
Child Jesus of Good Health, help us.
St. Joseph, Patron of a Holy Death
come to our aid.
Amen.

 

July 29, 2024

R. Dear Mary,
My Mother, I love you so much.
Please take care of my needs in my family.
Ask your precious Son Jesus to help me
and my family.
You are the Mother of Jesus. You cared
so lovingly for Him in your life on earth.
You are His most perfect disciple.
Oh Mary, I love you so much, you are my
spiritual Mother.

There are many of my friends I ask you
to pray for, too.
I know your powerful intercession from
the wedding of Cana.
You stood beneath the cross on Calvary,
after you endured the bitter treatment of
your precious Son Jesus.
Oh Mary, you know so well the trials and
pains of life. Help me now, I turn to your
powerful intercession.

You stand by the altar at Mass and intercede
for Grace for us all day long, please never
abandon me, your little child.

Oh Mary I love you so, so much.

Oh Mary you are the Queen of Peace, please
help us in peace in the world, the Churchs,
the family, the work place for all your little
children of the world.
We need your help for peace now, hear our
pleas as we turn to your powerful intercession. 

 

March 6, 2026

      Glorious Mysteries

The Resurrection

1. Luke 24: 1-12

On the first day of the week, at the first sign of dawn, they went to the tomb with the spices they had prepared. They found that the stone had been rolled away from the tomb, but on entering they could not find the body of the Lord Jesus. As they stood there puzzled about this, two men in brilliant clothes suddenly appeared at their side. Terrified, the women bowed their heads to the ground. But the two said to them, ‘Why look among the dead for someone who is alive? He is not here; he has risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee: that the Son of man was destined to be handed over into the power of sinful men and be crucified, and rise again on the third day.’ And they remembered his words.

And they returned from the tomb and told all this to the Eleven and to all the others. The women were Mary of Magdala, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. And the other women with them also told the apostles, but this story of theirs seemed pure nonsense, and they did not believe them.

Peter, however, went off to the tomb, running. He bent down and looked in and saw the linen cloths but nothing else; he then went back home, amazed at what had happened.

2. Jesus died, Jesus rose from the dead.
3. Dear Jesus, Thank You!!
4. Dear Sacred Heart outpour Your precious grace on the priests, the Church and the world.
    We love You.
5. Dear Sacred Heart give us the grace we need most.
6. I want to live in You, dear Jesus.
7. God help me now!
8. Lord Jesus, I lift my heart.
9. Fill my heart with Your love, Jesus.

10. Sing: Glory, Glory, Glory Lord

 

The Ascension

1. Acts 1: 6-9

Now having met together, they asked him, 'Lord, has the time come for you to restore the kingdom to Israel?' He replied, 'It is not for you to know times or dates that the Father has decided by his own authority, but you will receive the power of the Holy Spirit which will come on you, and then you will be my witnesses not only in Jerusalem but throughout Judaea and Samaria, and indeed to earth's remotest end.'

As he said this he was lifted up while they looked on, and a cloud took him from their sight.

2. Jesus was always going back to the Father.
3. Jesus’ Heart was pierced with a soldier’s lance.
4. Happiness is in the pierced Heart of Jesus.
5. What came forth from His pierced Heart was blood and water.
6. Water for Baptism, Blood for the Eucharist.
7. Through Jesus’ pierced Heart, the Church was born.
8. Jesus loved man and the world, Jesus gave Himself on the cross.

9. From the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy

 “… the liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed, at the same time it is the font from which all her power flows.”

10. Pope John Paul II says:
“Consecrating the world to the Immaculate Heart of the Mother means returning under the cross of the Son.
More: it means consecration of this world to the pierced Heart of the Savior, by bringing the world back to the very source of its Redemption.
Redemption is always greater than man’s sin and ‘the sin of the world.’
The power of Redemption infinitely surpasses the whole range of evil in man and in the world.”
-- Prayers and Devotions by Pope John Paul II
 

The Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles and the Virgin Mary

1. Acts 2: 1-4

When Pentecost day came round, they had all met together, when suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of a violent wind which filled the entire house in which they were sitting; and there appeared to them tongues as of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak different languages as the Spirit gave them power to express themselves. 

2. We see Jesus’ total giving by His arms outstretched on Calvary.
3. Jesus, Rose and Ascended to the Father.
4. The Holy Spirit wants to guide us and move in us.
5. The sacrament of Confirmation makes us soilder of God.
6. We must have a certain peace in our heart, even in suffering, to have the Holy Spirit move in us, like a breath, guiding us and helping us to know God’s will for us.
7. The Father wishes us to love the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
8. The Father wants us to give love to God and receive love from God.
9. Jesus gives us Himself in love in the Eucharist.
10. Sing: Come Holy Ghost
 

The Assumption

1. Mary was taken body and soul into heaven.
2. Remembering Mary’s dedication to Jesus, let us ask God for the grace to be dedicated, more and more like Mary, our spiritual Mother, to our beloved Jesus.
3. Mary loved the will of the Father.
4. Mary is the Spouse of the Holy Spirit.
5. Mary is the Singular Vessel showing us how to be more one with the Trinity.
6. Mary, our spiritual Mother help us to love God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit more deeply every day.
7. Mary we give ourselves to your Immaculate Heart, please take us through your heart to the Heart of Jesus, our Savior.
8. Jesus and Mary are the Hearts of greatest love - the New Adam and the New Eve.
9. Sing: Eye Has Not Seen
    Mary lived to go to heaven someday.
10. Sing: Immaculate Mary
 

The Queenship of Mary

1. Revelation 12: 1-2

Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth.

2. Mary is Queen of Heaven and Earth.
3. Mary is Queen of Peace.
4. Mary said at Fatima, until a sufficient number of people have consecrated their hearts to Jesus and Mary, we won’t have peace in the world.
5. Fr. Carter said, that meant at least 50% or greater.
6. We need to pray for our priests, the Church and the world and for devotion to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart of Mary.
7. Let’s pray the rosary and meditate on the lives of Jesus and Mary.
8. Jesus is the King of all Kings.
9. Make Jesus the King of your hearts.
    Make Mary the Queen of your hearts.
10. Jesus, I love You and I give You my heart.
    Mary, I love you and give you my heart.
    Amen.