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The Baptism of Jesus

1. Mark 1: 9-11

It was at this time that Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptised in the Jordan by John. And at once, as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit, like a dove, descending on him. And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my Son, the Beloved; my favour rests on you.’
2. God has showed us throughout salvation history that He is God, and we are under Him. God gives us a promise when we live to serve Him, we can have this promise.

3. God inspires us to do what He wants when we work His Plan and let Him lead us. We have a free will.

4. God gives us our life to follow His plan and He leads us to greater life in Him. The Christ-Life.

5. See the beauty of the waters at the Jordon. See this special moment that God gives us. Jesus is Baptized by John at the Jordon. This is the beginning of Jesus' public life.

6. The heavenly Father shows His endorsement - the sky is thrown open; the voice of the Father is heard - "This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased". Above the head of Jesus is the dove to show us the presence of the Holy Spirit.

7. The Trinity at the beginning of Jesus' public life. Jesus is called by His heavenly Father. Jesus, the Son, pleased His Father, in all He did. We are the sons and daughters of God through baptism. We are to live to be pleasing to God, as sons and daughters of God.

8. In Jesus' public life He taught us how to be more and more in the image of God. Jesus performed many miracles in His public life.

9. It was a beautiful day for this, God called us to meditate on this today in these Mysteries of Light in the Rosary. It is a mystery. God is a mystery.

The Trinity is a mystery. God's love for us is a mystery. We need to pray to the Holy Spirit to enlighten our intellects, so we understand greater insight into this mystery.

10. We can only do the will of God in this moment.

We pray to do whatever a faithful son of the Father would do in this moment.

Song: Live This Day

The Wedding at Cana

1. Jesus and Mary went to a wedding at Cana. Mary told Jesus they have no wine. Jesus performed His first miracle of His public life at the wedding of Cana, through the intercession of Mary His Mother.

2. They brought to Jesus jars filled with water and Jesus turned water into wine.

3. In baptism we receive a sharing in Divine life. We receive the supernatural virtues of faith, hope and charity in baptism. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit come to the graced baptized soul and dwell there.

We pray to the Holy Spirit to be sanctified more and more.

4. In the spiritual life we need to grow in the image and likeness of Jesus.
We pray to the Holy Spirit to sanctify us more and more. God gives us the 7 sacraments in the Church.
We pray to the Holy Spirit to be sanctified more and more.

5. The Holy Spirit is the Spouse of Mary. The Holy Spirit and Mary work together in bringing that image of Jesus more and more in us. Oh, we see how the child Jesus was formed in the womb of Mary through the power of the Holy Spirit, we pray to the Holy Spirit and Mary to work in us, today, so we grow more and more in the image of Jesus.

6. Mary tells us to come to her Immaculate Heart, this is our spiritual womb. Mary takes us to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

7. Mary is the singular vessel. Mary is united to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We go to Mary, our spiritual Mother and ask her to take us to our beloved God.

8. Mary is our spiritual Mother. Mary wants to help us to be holy. Pray through Mary's powerful intercession.

9. Jesus worked many miracles in His public life. Dear Jesus, thank You we love You so much.

10. Matthew 5:48

...You must therefore be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.’

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Holy Spirit Prayer

Come, Holy Spirit, almighty Sanctifier, God of love, who filled the Virgin Mary with grace, who wonderfully changed the hearts of the apostles, who endowed all Your martyrs with miraculous courage, come and sanctify us. Enlighten our minds, strengthen our wills, purify our consciences, rectify our judgment, set our hearts on fire, and preserve us from the misfortunes of resisting Your inspirations. Amen.

The Kingdom of God

1. Jesus is the King over all.

2. The devil wants to rule.

3. Jesus is God, God is all powerful. God is Supreme. God is the Divine Almighty God.

4. The devil is darkness, a fallen Angel. The devil tempts people so he can operate through them and cause confusion, chaos, division, and destruction.

5. A person that is humble is sorry if they do something wrong and they want what is right, if the truth is in them.

6. The person of righteousness wants the truth, the person of pride puts himself first. They want to justify when they do something wrong, why they are not wrong, they never want to be wrong.

7. First commandment

1. I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me.

8. God is love, God is absolute truth. God is over all.
God is to be obeyed, loved, respected, adored and honored.

9. Sing: The King of Glory

10. The devil is operating in lies and deception, the devil works undercover in darkness. Jesus is the Light of the world.

The Transfiguration

1. Jesus took Peter, James and John up Mt. Tabor and Jesus appeared transfigured before them.

2. Sing: Your Presence Pervades my Soul

3. Moses and Elijah appeared talking to Jesus.
Moses gave us the 10 commandments from God. These commandments were given on Mt. Sinai.
Elijah was a prophet.

4. St. Augustine says ”Our hearts will not rest until they rest in God."

5. The Apostles would soon see Jesus in His glorified body after the Resurrection.

6. Song: Come to My Heart

7. From Tell My People

Reflection: The Holy Spirit is given to us to fashion us ever more according to the likeness of Jesus. And the more we are like Jesus, the more Jesus leads us to the Father. Do we, each day, pray to the Holy Spirit to be more open to His union with Mary? The greater our union with our Mother, the spouse of the Holy Spirit, the greater is the transforming action of the Holy Spirit within us. end of excerpt

8. R. Jesus is the Light of the World. We are like people that are walking this earth with a shade down, a veil. We do not comprehend and we do not understand. We do not see Him in His magnificence and His light. We do not know many things. If we did we would all be on our faces right now, flat on the ground giving praise and worship to the Almighty God. Jesus is truly present and in this room in the Eucharist. But there is a shade down; it is as in a room. If the shade is down, there is darkness and the sunlight does not come through from the outside. But if the shade is lifted, the sunlight comes into the room. Jesus is the Light of the world. What we know is veiled. God can lift the veil. We can see more and more if God lets us. We do not need to be focused on so many foolish things. He is risen, the Light of the World, and He gives to us a sharing in His life.

9. R. It is all there. The Mass is there. The Sacraments are there. God wants to fill us more and more with His life. This grace is outpoured on this earth. But we do not comprehend. Spread the consecration to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart to priests. We need grace to be outpoured more and more on the world. Pray the prayers Jesus gave Fr. Carter. This is what the Shepherds of Christ Movement is all about. It is the Father’s plan from all eternity that the Shepherds of Christ Movement would be major in helping to spread the consecration to the priests, that priest’s hearts would be consecrated to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, that a nation, that a Church, that a people that are walking in darkness will see the light and that grace would be outpoured. Spreading the Consecration will help us to have holy priests. It is now as if the shade is down and the sun is on the other side of the shade but I do not see it. Jesus is giving us immense light, the more we consecrate our hearts to Jesus and Mary. God wants our intimate love. We must reach the priests with the Priestly Newsletter that they will consecrate their hearts to Jesus and Mary, that their hearts will be turned to hearts of love, that they will know God with the greatest intimacy, for the Holy Spirit works within the heart of the Virgin Mary and gives great lights.

10. R. Jesus is alive. We are His faithful witnesses. Jesus is in this room, the Almighty God, the same Jesus that came forth from the tomb, truly present in the Eucharist. He will give to us this understanding into Him in this new era, the Reign of the Two Hearts, for we will be the children of light that will know God with such intensity.

The Institution of the Eucharist

1. 2. R. Did you see Him come forth from the tomb adorned in the brightest light and splendor? Did you see Him? I saw Him. I saw Him before my eyes transfigured in the brightest light and I cried. He is alive. He is risen. He is alive and He is treated like a dead object in many cases. But He cries out. From this tabernacle, He cried out and He said, “I long for the soul that comes to Me and gives Me their love.”

2. Sing: A Song from Jesus

3. Luke 22:19-20

Then he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.’ He did the same with the cup after supper, and said, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood poured out for you.

4. Fr. Carter's Priestly Newsletter - Thoughts on the Eucharist

• The Eucharist is not only a very special contact with God in Christ. In Christ we also relate to the other members of the Church. In receiving the Eucharist we pledge ourselves to deepen our love-union with all members of the Body which is the Church. We pledge to use these means which foster union. We determine to avoid that which causes selfish divisiveness.

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The Eucharist also reminds us of our relationship with the entire human family. Jesus died and rose for all. The Eucharistic making-present of this paschal mystery nourishes our determination to assist in the work of ongoing redemption. The light of the Eucharist points to what we should be doing. The strength of the Eucharist assists us to so act in behalf of all.}

6. ^{^{^{^{The Eucharist, then, possesses the richest capacity to help us maintain and develop our personal relationship with God, the members of the Church, and all other members of the human family. And it will do just this if we surrender to its love, its power, its beauty.}}}}

7. ^{^{^{^{^{^{• Henri Nouwen observes: “Jesus is God-for-us. Jesus is God giving himself completely, pouring himself out for us without reserve. Jesus doesn’t hold back or cling to his own possessions…He gives all this to us…‘Eat, drink, this is My body, this is My blood…this is Me for you!’”5}}}}}}

5. Henri Nouwen, With Burning Hearts, Orbis Books, p. 67.

8. Fr. Carter's Priestly Newsletter - Thoughts on the Eucharist

The Eucharist is our chief source for growth in the Christlife. There follow some thoughts on this magnificent Gift of Jesus to us.

9. ^{^{• When Jesus speaks of His Blood as the “Blood of the Covenant” (Mt 26:28), we are reminded that blood sealed or ratified the Mosaic covenant at Mount Sinai. Moses sprinkled sacrificial blood upon the altar, which represented God, and upon the Jewish people. Because blood was a distinctive symbol of life for the Jewish people, such an action had a deep significance for them. This action of Moses symbolized the sealing or ratification of the covenant— a new life relationship between Yahweh and the Jewish people.}}10 ^{^{^{^{The sacrificial Blood of Jesus has also formed a covenant — the New
Covenant. In the shedding of His Blood, Jesus has established a new life
relationship between His Father and the human race. Forming a core,
focal point of the redeemed human race are the members of the Christian
community, the Church. The Eucharist, in recalling and making
sacramentally present the shedding of Jesus’ covenant Blood, is the
Church’s great covenant act. The Eucharist sustains the life of the
covenant, nourishes it, causes it to grow. Through participation in the
Eucharistic liturgy we should be growing in our covenant life. We should
be developing a greater love-union with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
We should be growing in a sense of community, in a deep love for the
Church, in a desire to contribute our share to the building up of the
body of Christ. We should be learning to curb our selfishness, this
selfishness which deadens a dynamic concern for the Christian community
and the entire human race. Participation in the Eucharist should also be
curbing divisive jealousy, forming us more and more as persons who want
deeply to love all so that it can be more often said of us, “See those
Christians, how they love one another.” The Eucharist can more radically
shape us according to these covenant attitudes if we allow it to do so.
We repent over the times we have resisted. We rejoice regarding the
times we have opened ourselves to the Eucharist’s transformative power.}}}}

7 Years Ago

March 13, 2015

R. We should pray with all of our hearts united as one – as never before –

We pray to the Father – united to Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, (the Sacrifice of Calvary, sacramentally made present)

We pray in the Holy Spirit with all the angels and saints and the souls in purgatory – through the powerful intercession of Mary, Our Lady of Clearwater –

Pray with me, now, with all of your heart –

We pray for the pope, for all cardinals, for all bishops, all priests –

We pray for all of us, all members and donors and all their families, all our families.

We pray for anyone who touches all these people –

We spread the Blood of Jesus on all mentioned – on China and the Florida site and on the whole Church – the whole world –

We cast the devil far, far from this place, from all mentioned – the whole Church and the whole world –

We want to Consecrate to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary in as far as we are able

1) all mentioned people

2) the priests, the Church and the world.

We beg for a special outpouring of the Holy Spirit – on all mentioned – the Church and the world –

We love You God, we love You so much.

We worship You God.
We adore You God.
We give You Our Hearts.

Amen.

In uniting ourselves as one this way – we pray deeply for the Church and for the world. We pray for all who are receiving the Easter mailing –

Dear God – hear our prayer – We love You – We love You – We love You –

Say the Morning Offering every day at the end –

Say the Holy Spirit Novena at the end.

Pray the Shepherds of Christ Prayers at the end.

Listen to every word deeply in the Mass.

Block out distractions.

Stay focused on the Mass –

Pray for the Church and the world and your intentions.

Beg for grace to be outpoured.

See Jesus before You on the Cross.

Hear Jesus say –

“I love you, I love you, I love you”

Jesus: I am the Sacred Heart – the Heart of pure and tender love – I love You so much –

R. The incarnation goes on in us. We are witnesses in the world.

Every action – Every prayer in our lives is united to the Mass – It is a Font of God’s Grace.

The Divine Bridegroom gave His Life on the cross and He rose from the dead victorious on the third day. The sacrifice of Calvary is sacramentally made present in the Mass today. We unite to it pleading as a body for ourselves, the Church and the world. We beg for grace from our Divine Bridegroom. As members of the Church we live as His spouse our bridal union all day.

Christ is Chief Priest and Mediator. We are His flock, the ones He came to save.

Yes, the Good Shepherd laid down His life for us. And it is in this that we must lay down our lives daily in the Morning Offering, offering all we do as a sacrifice united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and great grace will be released for souls. We can identify with Him in this that we offer everything we do in trying to please Him and serve Him as a sacrifice united to the Mass. The more we tell others to pray the Morning Offering, the more people will lay down their lives for souls and the more grace will be released for the troubled hearts. end of Introduction

Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

Founder of Shepherds of Christ - Rita’s Spiritual Director
Rita Ring, Co-founder of Shepherds of Christ

Excerpt from Response in Christ - Chapter 4 by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

In schematic outline we have discussed the manner in which the baptized Christian extends his Mass to his daily existence. As he so lives out his Mass, he is becoming more Christ-like. He becomes a more perfect priest and victim for his next participation in the eucharistic sacrifice.42 The beautiful cycle which the Mass contains lies exposed before us. As part of this cycle the Christian is intimately involved in the process of continued redemption. The Mass is the center of the Christian life: “. . . the liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it is the fount from which all her power flows.” 43

42. For a current treatment of the varied richness of the Eucharist, cf. J. Wicks, “The Movement of Eucharistic Theology” in Chicago Studies,Vol. 10 (1971), pp. 267-284.
43. The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, No. 10.