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.

I want to know the will of God and operate in love.

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. 

 

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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.

  

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 28, 2026

Mysteries of Light

The Baptism of Jesus

1. John baptized Jesus in the Jordon.
2. This began Jesus’ public life.
3. Jesus lived the private life for 30 years.
4. Jesus lived with His Mother Mary.
5. Baptism is such an important sacrament for us.
6. In baptism original sin is taken away.
7. In baptism we receive a sharing in His life.
8. In baptism we receive the supernatural virtues of faith, hope, and love.
9. In baptism our knowing and loving capacity is elevated.
10. We should live the Christ-life in our lives.
 

The Marriage at Cana

1. Mary and Jesus went to a wedding at Cana.
2. Jesus performed the first miracle of His public life at Cana.
3. Jesus changed water into wine.
4. Mary, has powerful intercession.
5. God shows us miracles.
6. Dear God increase in us, faith.
7. In the Mass bread and wine, ordinary things, are changed into the Divine Almighty God, Jesus, truly present in the Eucharist.
8. If Bread and wine can be changed into the Divine Almighty God, truly present in the Eucharist in the Mass, can we not see that receiving the Eucharist can help us to be more holy?
9. The Mass is so powerful.
10. These are the mysteries of light.
 

Building the Kingdom of God

1. God has called us to help in the building of His Kingdom.
2. We are to help in the work of redemption.
3. The best way to do this is to be more one with Jesus.
4. Jesus is love!
    We are reminded of this in seeing the Sacred Heart of Jesus in pictures, statues in our home.
5. Trials come that we must pray to be above them.
    They can worm their way into a beautiful day, a gift God gives us.

6. We must keep our focus on God.
    I turn to You Lord, I feel there are so many distractions demanding my attentions and thoughts and I love my time alone with You, loving You, lifted above it all.

7. The picture on Blue Book 1 was a hot air balloon.
    Jesus was letting me know, that, when I spend an hour before the Blessed Sacrament daily, I don’t get down in the ‘muck’, I am lifted above.
    I need daily Mass.

8. Jesus is truly present in His Divinity and humanity in the Eucharist.
    This is such a gift of His abundant love and greater life in Him.
    It takes a real commitment to put Him first, no matter what.

9. I cannot have that gift that lifts me above the ‘muck’,
    without the time spent with Him in the Blessed Sacrament.
    Nothing else gives us that grace - as Jesus truly present in the Eucharist

10. Peace is the tranquility of order St. Augustine said.
    We follow the order God has given us - God must be first.

    The Holy Spirit works in our hearts when we are deeply filled with His life (Grace) in us.
    Life is in Him - first and center stage.

    We can get bogged down in distractions, problems, allurements, self-focus, whatever -
    Grace from the Blessed Sacrament lifts us up from the ‘earthy. Like a hot air ballon up in the sky.

    We must be lifted by Him in this troubled world.
    We receive a sharing in Divine life in Baptism and this life is fed by the Eucharist.

    Jesus paid a precious price for this. From His pierced Heart the Church was born - Blood and Water came forth from His pierced side, pierced Heart of Divine love.
    Water a symbol for Baptism,
    Blood a symbol for the Eucharist, whereby we receive a sharing in His Divine life in Baptism and are fed by Him in the Eucharist.

    This is the treasure. So much grace outpoured in the Eucharist.
    So much grace when we are there in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament because Jesus is truly present, no less than the day He walked the earth.

    Jesus outpours His grace in adoration!!
    Go to Him and be lifted up.
    God I am weak, I need You. I want intimacy with You, dwelling in Your Sacred Heart of love.
 

The Transfiguration

1. Jesus took Peter, James and John up Mt. Tabor.
2. Jesus appeared in magnificent light, transfigured.
3. Jesus worked many miracles, but this was different. He Himself was transfigured, light that was white.
4. The voice of the Father was heard.
5. "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, listen to Him."
6. The Mass is the sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present.
7. The Father is pleased with the sacrifice of Jesus in the Mass.
8. We should live to please, our Heavenly Father, who created us.
9. The Father tells us to listen to Jesus.
10. If we do, we will please our Heavenly Father.

The Institution of the Eucharist

1. Pope Pius XII says in Mediator Dei: AAS 39 (1947) 548-49
Likewise the Victim is the same, namely our Divine Redeemer in His human nature with His true Body and Blood. The manner, however, in which Christ is offered is different. On the Cross He completely offered Himself and all His sufferings to God, and the immolation of the victim was brought about by the bloody death, which He underwent of His free will. But on the altar by reason of the glorified state of His human nature, "death shall have no more dominion over Him," and so the shedding of His blood is impossible; still according to the plan of Divine Wisdom, the Sacrifice of our Redeemer is shown forth in an admirable manner by external signs which are symbols of His death. For by "transubstantiation" of bread into the Body of Christ and of wine into His Blood, His Body and Blood are both really present; now the Eucharist species under which He is present symbolize the actual separation of His Body and Blood. Thus the commemorative representation of His death, which actually took place on Calvary is repeated in every Sacrifice of the altar, seeing that Jesus Christ is symbolically shown by separate symbols to be in a state of victimhood. 98

2. Mysterium Fidei No. 34 AAS 57 (1965) 762
Paul VI reiterates the Church's position on this sacramental immolation in Mysterium Fidei:

The Lord is then immolated in an unbloody manner in the Sacrifice of the Mass representing the Sacrifice of the Cross and applying its saving power when by the words of consecration He begins to be sacramentally present as the spiritual food of the faithful under the appearance of bread and wine.

3. The Christain experiences a mystical victimhood.
    St. Paul says “With Christ I am nailed to the cross.” Gal 22:19

4. Pius XII says that pride, anger, impurity, and all evil desires are to be mystically slain.

5. We bring our transformed heart to the altar, we want to come in purity of heart to the altar.
    We give ourselves to our heavenly Father.
    We die to self-will not like Jesus.

6. We die to those things not like Jesus to rise in Him.
    And the Father gives us the Eucharist.
    We die to self-will to be likened more to Christ who was perfectly aligned to His Father’s will.
    There should be great growth in the spiritual life with every Eucharist.

7. The Mass is the sacrifice of Calvary, sacramentally made present.

8. From A FewTthoughts 3 - October 26, 2024

The Priest is a Gift from God

I had a radio that wasn’t working. If I turned it on and it worked, it played whatever channel it wanted. Not only that, I could not turn it off. I took it to the dealer and told them my radio was broken. They said it wasn’t and gave it back, I tried my radio again. The same thing happened again.

This reminds me of some of the tapes that can play through the evil influence in our minds. Because of the devil trying to get us to feel down, some tapes, just play and play and play, even though we want to turn them off. I am learning to try to pray to the Holy Spirit and discipline myself, and offering up many of the frustrations that I have experienced in my life.

In sickness, it can become very difficult to turn off the pain. Think of this discomfort that comes with terminal illness. The more we discipline ourselves and do the Father’s will being able to love and give as much as we can, we will have peace in our lives. Peace is the tranquility of
order. We can work through that frustration through discipline and obedience to the will of God. Amen.

Everything is doing the will of God. You can be surrounded by darkness or light.

9. Song: A Priest is a Gift from God.

10. Song: I Love You Jesus