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.’

The Ten Commandments

1 Corinthians 2: 9

Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus

My dear fellow Associate Members,

Jesus is calling special apostles to join a new division of the Shepherds of Christ Movement. Here is a message from Jesus given to Father Carter:

    My beloved priest-companion, I am requesting that a new prayer movement be started under the direction of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I am asking for volunteers who are willing to pray before the Blessed Sacrament for one hour, twice-weekly. Members of the Shepherds of Christ prayer chapters, as well as others, are to be invited to join this movement.

    These apostles are to pray for the intentions I am giving you. For part of the hour they are to use the prayers of the Shepherds of Christ Associates Handbook. They may spend the rest of the hour as they so choose.

    I will use this new prayer movement within My Shepherds of Christ Ministries in a powerful way to help in the renewal of My Church and the world. I will give great graces to those who join this movement. The name, Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, is to be given to this movement.

    I am inviting My beloved Rita Ring to be coordinator for this activity.

    I pour out the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock.

    This is indeed a special calling for us to unite in one heart with His Eucharistic Heart and pray for the following intentions:

    1. For the spread of the devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary culminating in the reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of the Immaculate Heart.
    2. For the Pope.
    3. For all bishops of the world.
    4. For all priests.
    5. For all sisters and brothers in the religious life.
    6. For all members of the Shepherds of Christ Movement, and for the spread of this movement to the world.
    7. For all members of the Catholic Church.
    8. For all members of the human family.
    9. For all souls in purgatory.

end of Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart message

Fr. Carter's Talk February 13, 1997 click

               February 13, 2020

                R. The story God is teaching us is love –
                Loving Jesus will help us find our
                way to eternal life –

                Loving may take effort we think, but
                when the Holy Spirit takes
                over and gives us a special gift, we are
                just absorbed in love – God's grace in us –
                But this usually comes with surrendering
                more and more to God – letting go – giving Him
                our will and our life, but being willing
                to change and be taught.

                Thinking we know it all is a trap –
                We, in fact, know so little, even about
                ourselves.

                God did not put us here by ourselves,
                we need to realize God is guiding us
                all the time, by inspiration from the Holy Spirit,
                by experiences past and present, by
                others He sends in our lives to help
                us grow and see what we need to see.

                There must be change and learning.
                We are here to grow in the image and likeness
                of God.

                We have roots that are wounded and need
                healing.

                These impure roots keep coming up if we keep
                    praying to the Holy Spirit to enlightens us.
                    These impure roots get in the way
                    of unity, love, and walking as God
                    is calling us to do.

                Fighting to not change is falling in a big
                    pit.
 

           From Tell My People by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

                R. We are in process –

                We are like a thirsty tree planted by the
                    waters of sanctifying grace – ready to
                    be filled by His life in us.

                From the altar – the priest celebrates the
                    Mass, the sacrifice of Calvary
                    sacramentally made present and
                    these streams of grace abundantly flow.

                Our roots are rooted in Him.

                We dwell in the Trinity preparing ourselves
                    for eternal life.

                We eat His Body and drink His Blood at
                    Mass – We are transformed in Him.

                His Word fills our heart and soul
                    and the roots that need healing
                    are changed by this gift, but we
                    must be willing, open, surrendering.

                    Dwelling in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary
                are our little heaven on earth, Fr. Carter
                would say.

                    We are a gift to be given and others
                are a gift of God's creation, even in
                our imperfections, we are gifts that
                God wants to be given to one another
                as we grow in His image and likeness.

                    We are wounded, we need healing, we need
                God. We need each other, we need to love
                and we are to give love – It's the greatest
                commandment.

                    We need to change and to learn –
                every day, more and more, like Jesus –
                a work in progress.

                    We need the gifts of the Holy Spirit. We need
                His Counsel, we need knowledge of
                our wicked ways, of our selfishness,
                our frozenness. We are a work in
                progress. We learn every day. We don't
                say in denial and anger (why me) –
                How can I get around what I need to face,
                or holding onto the old brain because we
                are comfortable in bad roots that need
                changing – We beg for grace from the Holy Spirit.
                We pray for His gifts – peaceful acceptance
                of those things we must change and
                growing more and more to be the best we
                can be, as God wants us to be!!

                Loyal, Loving, Honest –
                God is running the show –
                We give our will and our life to Him.

                It's a lot to process –
                We are a work in progress, but never
                again will any one live as we will –
                We are God's unique creation, so precious
                to our beloved God. We are to be all
                He intends us to be – This takes surrender
                to Him. This takes getting off the top of
                the ladder and putting God on the throne
                and getting off ourselves!!

                We are a work in progress.

                A soldier in the army of God with our
                    hearts full of Him, full of love –

                We are to be like the wise virgins preparing
                    ourselves for the coming of the
                    bridegroom.

                Sing: Awaken My Heart

                Sing: Deep Within

Ephesians 4: 25-32

Ephesians 5: 1-2

Ephesians 5: 8-21

    So be very careful about the sort of lives you lead, like intelligent and not like senseless people. Make the best of the present time, for it is a wicked age. This is why you must not be thoughtless but must recognise what is the will of the Lord. Do not get drunk with wine; this is simply dissipation; be filled with the Spirit. Sing psalms and hymns and inspired songs among yourselves, singing and chanting to the Lord in your hearts, always and everywhere giving thanks to God who is our Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.

                Song: From St. Louis Jesuits - Awake Oh Sleeper

June 6, 2015 - Eve of Precious Body and Blood of Jesus

Month of the Sacred Heart

R. See high, see low –

See as you desire –

Our eyes are a wonderful gift given
    to us from God –

We can open our eyes or close our
    eyes –

We can look straight ahead –
    look high or
    look low –

We can see with our eyes –

We can scan the scene from
    right to left –

We can focus on trying to see the
    big picture with our eyes –

We can drive a car and see with
    other cars moving how to
    go in union with them.

We can watch a play at the theater
but if it is boring we can close our
    eyes and go to sleep.

We can watch the Mass and see
    the priest –

What we see can make us cry –
What we see can help lead us to action –

What we see can help take us from danger
What we see can lead us to a new endeavor –

We can see a new born baby –

We can see a person laid out in a coffin –

We can read and learn with our eyes –

Were not our eyes a gift given to us
    by God –

Last night Mary appeared to me in the
    Virgin Mary building on the 5th –

She appeared in the deepest –
brightest light I cannot describe or
    compare to any light I know –
    it was beyond and

It’s depth and intensity of light –
    I cannot describe

She was beautiful and seeing her
    face before me, in the mystical
    was –

    alive and different – it did not
    remain the same –

She had given me messages –
    prior to this intense apparition
    of celestial beauty – I cannot
    begin to describe

The messages will be transcribed and
    published –

But then she appeared and she did
    not speak at all –

It was the vision –

The vision of intensity – I was so
    wrapped in it and could not
    say to lead the Hail Marys –

My physical abilities were
    numbed as I was enveloped
    in her vision before me –
    the light beyond description –
    the depth so deep and so very
        real –

the lady as she was encased in
    this celestial aura was
    deep in that heavenly vision
    a Mother alive in celestial
    light –

in the front of the depth while
    the light was never exhausted –
    behind and around her

A light it seemed deeper than the
    ocean and farther than any
    sea –

    solid and bright with a light
        unknown to me

And her beauty in celestial surroundings,
    her beauty mystical – beyond anything
    I have ever seen –

No breath or depth – no high or low,
    no light can be a measure for
    the opening to this window of
    celestial beauty –

Forever – Forever – God tells us of
    heaven –

A foreverness was this vision like
    the scripture

1 Corinthians 2:9

“What no eye has seen and no ear has heard, what the mind of man cannot visualise; all that God has prepared for those who love him;”

R. Did you ever see the sun dance on
    the ocean, or a sun dressed
    body of water –

There is movement – like nothing
    else you know –

When she appeared this vision is
    not static or like what we
    see with regard its movement –

    I see no movement
    It is –
    Ever changing, beauteous and without
        a beginning or an end to what
        I am seeing –

It is, I see no change, but it
    is alive in beauty and
    different entirely that I am
    drawn into it and almost unable
    to talk, to use my physical
    things –

I am in the intensity of this apparition –
    in it and it is and it has
    depth and light and beauty and is
    alive –

    I can’t describe it at all –

If I can see the sun dancing on a
    body of endless water, can I
    tell you of it so you can enjoy
    the experience and try to describe
    the movement, the light, the
    depth – the sky that meets
    way out in beautiful blue
    against the silver waters dancing
    in radiant light –

You may identify with what you
    have seen of this and enjoy it
    with me, but

The vision of Mary –
the living appearance of her –
    the light –

    the Virgin Mother as she showed
        herself in a celestial way
        to me –

I cannot even find anything to
    identify this with and
Yet it was so real –
    so beautiful –
    so that it captivated me deeply
    to be enthralled in it –
    I cannot describe

But I know more of eternity –
    that with depth and breath
    we do not know or
    comprehend –

We are blind to the celestial reward,
    relationship with God in intense
    purity and unity – eternally –

We are on earth and we measure with
    our spoons and ounces, we see
    with eyes veiled

And God is beyond and other and
    yet He has given us Jesus Christ in
    the Eucharist to come to us
    and feed the sharing in His life
    we have from baptism –

If He spoke now – He would say
    reach – reach and reach –
    go out and spread the Good News –

    Man is so stilted in his ways
    and he can be so bolted to the
    earth, but we were created
    in the image and likeness of God –

    created to reach to the heights –
        to dig deeply into the Mystery –
        to know that the unseen is real –
        to not be stifled because we
            stand in a cement sidewalk
            wrapped in the beauty of our
            own footprint –

The footprints we follow are
        those of the Son of God for we
        were created in His
        image and likeness

The seen and the unseen –

Do we see at all beyond
    our eyes –

    the Mystery of God –

    the Mystery of Jesus –

    the Mystery of the Incarnation

    the Mystery of the sacramental
        life of the Church –

    the Mystery of Jesus truly present
        Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity
        in the Eucharist

Reach – Reach – Reach –

See the unseen –

Dig deep into the Heart of Jesus

Beg for the Holy Spirit to fill us with
    His gifts to see, to
    understand, to know,
    to love, to be holy,
    to fear God and to be
    full of wisdom and council –

This is relationship of us –
    human creatures with
    the Divine God –

This is about the gift of baptism –

The sharing in Divine Life –

This is about being nurtured
    with the Bread of Life
    the Eucharist and His Word –

This is about the unseen and
    the seen –

This is about preparing ourselves
    for the goal of eternal
    happiness –

Seeing God face to face –

Being wrapped in the beatific vision –

My people this is about Mary
    appearing in the Virgin Mary building
    and showing me last night –
    her beauty that I cannot
    even describe and
    when she appeared that
        way – she said nothing –
        she just took me into
        this beauty and I behold her
            and what she showed
            me and
            in the end

R. How can I
    draw
    this?

We are earthly and

He is heavenly and
    yet He wants to reveal
    secrets of Himself to
    us and have an intimate
    relationship with us –

Mary wants a personal relationship
    with us –
    She is our spiritual Mother –

Open your eyes and your hearts to
    God and to our Mother at Our Side

 

August 22, 2000

Today is the Queenship of Mary

R. The Queen mounts her throne among shouts of joy The angels surround this heavenly throne Her children love her and worship their God.

The Sacred Heart of Jesus reigns in the hearts of her children.

He is the King of their hearts.

She is the Queen of their hearts.

A New Adam, a New Eve are recognized by the once enslaved children of Adam and Eve.

A trumpet blare for one so fair, a blare of music for our starved ears.

From the Magnificat, Mary speaks with the lilt of the voice of one so pure and holy. (NOTE: Read this with the lightness of the voice of the Virgin filled with the Holy Spirit and in the humility of one so fair.

Among shouts of joy our Lady speaks liltingly in a heavenly voice and we gape at the sound of her sweet voice and behold the beauty of this maiden so sweet and fair.

God the Father speaks:

Amen, amen I say to you My beloved Apostles of the Sacred Heart. You may worry and struggle now, but a King looks on you with the greatest love as you surrender more and more everyday to do My will that this day will come to your earth, the day of the Reign of the Sacred Heart.

Do not get caught up in the mysteries of the way men act and perceive things, but put your gaze ever more on the mystery of My Divine Son and how much He truly loves you.

You are caught in the wonder of the earth and the firmament. My beloved, so much more glorious is the insight into My Divine Mysteries.

My plan is given here to bring about the Reign of My Son’s Sacred Heart and the triumph of your Mother’s Immaculate Heart.

I am a God of justice and of right.

I am your heavenly Father.

I am the Carpenter, the One with the plan.

You are but children of Mine, creatures of the earth, and yet My love for you is so great. I gave you My only begotten Son as One offered for your sins and, men, you smite Me, your Father.

You ignore your Mother when I give you such gifts in your churches of her presence forever with you and the Holy Spirit working with her bringing forth your holiness.

I painted with My hand your Mother pleading to her young ones, and she appears everyday, and you ignore this sign and gift I give you.

What more could convince you? You want another sign and another while you sheepishly continue your sinful ways.

My children, My children, help Me to reach your brothers, oh please, they have plugged up their ears and covered their eyes.

How is it your Creator cries to the creatures and they ignore Him?

Now the beauty of one so fair July 5, 2000, I painted as a golden wonder before you and allowed such photography that all might know Our heavenly presence when Mary speaks in the Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. And My Son delivers, in these rosaries, the message I give to you as your heavenly Father.

Oh children of the earth, be attentive and listen to Me, I plead as your heavenly Father that your wills be aligned to My will and you serve Me.

Oh children of Eve, your Mother Mary cries to Me, for she pleads your case, and I have given in to her requests that the children be spared if they turn from their ways and love their God.

She wanted to come to you as the Woman adorned in sunlight by day and fashioned in a special way by nightfall in golden mystical light in the dark night, as her favored children sing so fervently songs of praise and love to God, and they sing to her, a Mother who has never forgot them.

Oh children, listen to Me and help Me reach your willful brothers through your fervent prayers. My Son gave Himself as a Sacrifice for your sins, meriting the graces available to you the sinful children of Eve, and you will not even pray after I have granted this special gift of Mary on the building.

Your eyes do not see her, or you would have changed your ways by now.

What sign would you respond to, My silly earth?

I give you My Son with you in the Eucharist, and you do not treasure this gift as you should.

God remains with you today. Jesus, My Son, feeds you with His Body and Blood. He is truly present in His Divinity and Humanity. You need to pray as He has instructed, especially before the tabernacle.

Amen.

I am the Father, I have spoken, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.

Jesus speaks:

I am the Son of God, on this glorious feast sing songs of great praise to your God and love Him.

Unite to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and pray to be possessed by God.

Mary is your Mother, she is the one, pure, spotless, human person. She was conceived without sin, you must listen to her, it is the Father’s will. You must be brought forth from her Immaculate Heart, her spiritual womb, as a child of God, a child of the light.

Let the scales drop from your eyes as you sing praise and see, as never before, the glory and wonder of your God.

                end of excerpt

                R. Mary appeared in Clearwater – The Lady Clothed as the Sun

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.

                R. Read entire Chapter 12
 

R. Oh, there is not one so fair as thee, my beloved Mother Mary.

Of all the maidens that God could have chosen it was you, oh shining Star of Heaven.

Oh Mary, Mother of us all. She doth appear as a wonder so fair indeed,

A permanent sign of God’s love.

A Woman clothed in gold.

One that glistens with the radiance of a golden tone,

Her beauty dancing in the sunlit hours of every day.

In morning splendor, in dancing light at noon day as the sun glistens on her rainbow glow and at night she has appeared on special dates in golden splendor and light.

Would you quote the Scripture for Mary so fair.

“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.”  (Revelation 12: 1-2)

Would you see her as she appeared in little villages in the 20th century, tucked in hills and out of the way places.

If you missed these enormous signs from heaven, of one so fair, she appears there clothed in the golden sun of the day, reflecting her radiant beauty painted by the hand of the Father. She is His chosen maiden so fair.

She appears daily, she is there by day and beneath the black shadows of night, she does not slumber, but calls to her children of light to come through her golden doorway and let the light of Christ shine in their souls.

She appears one so fair, by day and sometimes by night clothed in radiance and golden, her garment hemmed with glistening sunlight. She once appeared to a few and her visits fleeting in remotest places, she remains a Woman Clothed with the Sun, the sun dancing on her garments of rainbow color on a busy, busy corner for all to see, in the state of the sun, sunny Florida. She is a Woman painted by the brush of God.

And do you know the wonder of one who calls the children far and wide, to hear the voice of her Son, Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the Flock.

Mary, the heavenly maiden, to call them home to His Heart.

Oh, of one so fair, do we not boast and praise our God and thank Him for such a wonder.

Oh, to Mary, Queen of Heaven and Earth, we cry, help us to do what you asked for at Fatima and help us in our mission of telling the world of your Son’s desire to spread His Movement so men will be Shepherds of Christ.

 

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

From the Priestly Newsletter Book 3 by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

The Indwelling of the Trinity and the Life of Grace (excerpt)

"Love, we have said, is the foundation of devotion to the Holy Spirit, as it is also the foundation of Christian perfection. But love as a reflection of God, as His own image, is something that encloses within its simplicity a boundless wealth and a variety of forms. Who can fathom the depths of love?

"Human love in all its manifestations is admirably in harmony with the love of charity; it is confident in filial love, trusting in friendship, sweet and fruitful in the love of husband and wife, disinterested and tender in the love of a mother. Our love of God must include all these forms of human love; every fiber of our heart must vibrate when the harmonious and full canticle of love bursts forth from it. But since God is one in essence and triune in Persons, our love for Him takes on a particular aspect accordingly as it is directed to each one of the divine Persons.

"Our love for the Father is tender and confident like that of children; eager to glorify Him as His only-begotten Son taught us to do by word and example. Love for the Father is the intense desire to have His will fulfilled on earth as it is in heaven. Our love for the Son, who willed to become flesh for us, is characterized by the tendency to union with Him and transformation into Him; by imitation of His example, participation in His life, and the sharing of His sufferings and His Cross. The Eucharist, mystery of love, of sorrow, and of union, reveals the characteristics of this love.

"Love for the Holy Spirit also has its special character, which we should study in order completely to understand devotion to Him. We have explained how the Holy Spirit loves us, how He moves us like a divine breath that draws us to the bosom of God, like a sacred fire that transforms us into fire, like a divine artist who forms Jesus in us. Surely, then, our love for the Holy Spirit should be marked by loving docility, by full surrender, and by a constant fidelity that permits us to be moved, directed, and transformed by His sanctifying action.

"Our love for the Father tends to glorify Him; our love for the Son, to transform ourselves into Him; our love for the Holy Spirit, to let ourselves be possessed and moved by Him."⁴

---

Life In and With Jesus

• The spiritual life centers in Christ. Here are words from the Jerusalem Catecheses: "When we were baptized into Christ and clothed ourselves in him, we were transformed into the likeness of the Son of God. Having destined us to be his adopted sons, God gave us a likeness to Christ in his glory, and living as we do in communion with Christ, God’s anointed, we ourselves are rightly called ‘the anointed ones.’ " ⁵

4. Archbishop Martinez, op. cit., pp. 67-68,
5. Jerusalem Catecheses, as in The Liturgy of the Hours, Catholic Book Publishing Co., Vol. II, p. 608.

                Sing: He Has Anointed Me

Romans 6: 3-4

                If you want to die to something
                    there are stages –

                (1) Denial
                (2) Anger
                (3) Some other way
                (4) I don't want to change
                (5) Peaceful acceptance

                Live the Life of Resurrection in Him

From the Priestly Newsletter Book 3 by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

Henri Nouwen tells this story: "I would like to tell you the story of a middle-aged man whose career was suddenly interrupted by the discovery of leukemia, a fatal blood cancer. All his life plans crumbled and all his ways had to change. But slowly he was able to ask himself no longer: ‘Why did this happen to me?’ but instead: ‘What is the promise hidden in this event?’ When his rebellion became a new quest, he felt that he could give strength and hope to other cancer patients and, that by facing his condition directly, he could make his pain a source of healing for others. To this day, this man not only does more for patients than many ministers are able to, but he also refound his life on a level that he had never known before." ⁶

6. Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude, Ave Maria Press, p. 57.
 

From the Priestly Newsletter

Cardinal Newman said