Mary has requested that the daily message be given each day to the world. It is read nightly at the prayer service from her Image Building in Clearwater, Florida, U.S.A. This is according to her request. All attempts will be made to publish this daily message to the world at 11 p.m. Eastern time, U.S.A.
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March 3, 2002
March 4th Holy
Spirit Novena Scripture selection is Day 6 Period I. |
The Novena Rosary Mystery for March 4th is Glorious. |
Rosary March 5, 2002 - Clearwater, Florida at 6:20 PM
April 5, 6, 7, 2002
come to FLORIDA.
Easter week
March 3, 2002
Messenger:
Behold, Our Savior
has risen.
Let the Light of Christ
shine from our
hearts.
March 3, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
There will be a special gathering the
weekend of April 5, 6 and 7 First Friday
of Easter week, First Saturday of Easter week
and Divine Mercy Sunday. This will end with
the Divine Mercy being said Sunday at 3:00 P.M.
under the image.
The Divine Mercy novena will be prayed every
day at the site.
There will be the Mass video
shown at 12:00 P.M. April 6 under
the image if possible, if
not it will be behind the
image inside.
Apostles, Associates and others interested in
promoting the ministries and prayers are
asked to come.
There will be availability of tapes,
discs, newsletters, crucifix
videos and a very special
new edition the rosary on
cd disc, video and tapes
and audio disc of Fr. Mike
praying the rosary. These will
be with and without the
Rosary Aves. Those can be
used in schools.
Demonstrations of materials and
ministries will be available.
1) 6:20 Prayer Format
2) Priestly Newsletter material
3) Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus
4) Home Consecration
5) Personal prayer for deeper union with God
6) Very Special prayer service
First Friday 6:20 April 5
7) Pictures available of Mary's image
8) School Rosary Program
9) Rosary Meditations
10) A deeper understanding of the Mass
11) praying the rosary and prayers as a family
with the coloring books, rosary books,
prayer cards
12) Promoting prayer groups to
pray for the priests, the Church
and the world (a) in Churches
(b) in the family
(c) in homes
13) About Centers and Sub-Centers
14) Broadcast of special prayer
services, praying for the
priests, the Church and
the world united as a body.
15) Nursing home and elderly ministry
material and videos available.
16) Prison Ministry
17) Blue Books and other books
18) Internet and availability
of pictures and cards
19) How can you help the movement?
20) The different levels of commitment
There are seven levels of commitment
in the Shepherds of Christ Movement.
There are Associates who gather and pray at least once monthly as a group and also help with donations to support the Shepherds of Christ priestly newsletter. They can be tremendously involved. They give as they feel they are able.
Apostles are members who have restricted their apostolic activity to the Shepherds of Christ. They literally act as a body of lay people who have given their lives in their present living situation to do all that they can to bring about the Reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart.
Prayer Apostles are often shut-ins, some are able to go to church and pray. They spend much of their lives praying for the Movement.
Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus are those who spend at least two separate hours weekly before the Blessed Sacrament praying for the following:
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.
For the Pope.
For all bishops of the world.
For all priests.
For all sisters and brothers in the religious life.
For all members of the Shepherds of Christ Movement, and for the spread of this Movement to the world.
For all members of the Catholic Church.
For all members of the human family.
For all souls in purgatory.
Handmaids of the Good Shepherd are young and older women who have given their lives in community primarily to pray for the Shepherds of Christ Movement and intentions and to be special spouses of Jesus. Some have more duties than others. All have the primary duty of prayer and the desire to be a special spouse of our Lord. One of the functions of the handmaids is the involvement in praying for and helping to circulate the priestly newsletter. The handmaids are not members of a religious order.
Servants of the Good Shepherd are men who live in community with a lifestyle and purpose similar to that of the handmaids. The servants are not members of a religious order.
We wish to form a special congregation of priests who will realize their great oneness with Christ. They will be consecrated deeply to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary and support the Shepherds of Christ Movement as holy priests.
21) Rosary Making, special teachers
and kits
22) Foreign Mailing
Supplying rosaries, prayers, cards,
sheets and books, priestly material,
rosary meditations to Africa, India,
Brazil...
23) Praying as an intercessors for
grace to be released for the
priests the Church and
the world.
24) Foreign language material
25) Schedules of monthly prayer services.
Healing day on Tuesday.
Schedules of daily prayer at Centers
and when we try to unite in prayer
for special prayers no matter where
we are.
26) Fr. Carter, who he is, about his
mission, his messages that
led him to write the priestly
newsletter and found the Shepherds
of Christ Movement.
27) Listing of Materials available
28) Messages of Fatima,
First Saturday
29) The life of a servant and
handmaid of the Good Shepherd
30) What it is to be an Apostles
of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
in the Shepherds of Christ
31) Married Couple Ministry
32) Items available for stores
and conventions to promote
the image
image rosaries, blankets,
framed pictures, statues
33) All materials used to promote
devotion to the Sacred Heart
of Jesus and the Immaculate
Heart of Mary
If possible please register.
I am coming in April please check one or more of the following as it applies
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March 3, 2002 message continues
Messenger: Talks and demonstrations
will be scheduled over
the three days.
Details will be made available
to those interested.
Mark your calendars and come
on those days April 5, 6, and 7,
First Friday, First Saturday
and Divine Mercy Sunday
to know more how you can be
a Shepherd of Christ.
Please check our homepage
today for added information.
March 3, 2002
Messenger: Write
a letter to God the Father every
day and write down all the good things
that happened within the past 24 hours.
Thank God for all our gifts.
Thank God for our priests.
Thank God for our Church.
Thank God for the gift of the sacraments.
Cherish the Eucharist.
Oh God we love You so much.
Father Carter and Jerry's dad
March 3, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
Please pray united with
us at 3:45 - 4:30 with
a Mass being celebrated.
Watch the Mass video at
4:00.
Many are watching the Mass
video.
Pray for grace for priests
receiving the Priestly
Newsletter Book II and for
them to begin prayer chapters
praying for the priests,
the Church and the world.
Pray for the Priestly Mailing
WE NEED FUNDS FOR
VIRGIN MARY PAYMENT.
All materials in this message
have been very carefully
discerned by Fr. Carter.
From the Mass Book I
Excerpt from the Mass Book
December 19, 1996
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HERE IS A MAN ON THE CROSSGod wants union with us. He wants fire. Many try to love God with a cold heart. They tell Him words that they think they should say that are loving.
When one loves, they do not need to be prompted to say words. From the depth of their being they cry out their words of love. It is a cry from within, from the fire within their chest, behind the words. The words are burning in their chest and must be released because of the fire behind them.
We are as blind men. We do not see the great gifts that God gives to us. It is as if we stand by the shore of the sea and throw little words at Jesus. We must not be afraid to jump into the water and be completely immersed in His love. He was consumed with such love for us. He gave Himself to His death on the cross.
There is a man on a cross and he tells us so many things. He does not have to speak. When we study Him on the cross, He speaks to us with His pierced hands, His head covered with blood, His body withered and beaten. He speaks to us of His undying love.
Oh, beloved Savior, I am blind. I am selfish. I do not see the great reservoir of love that you give to Me. I see the man dying on the cross. How do I see Him? Do I see a figure and think, oh, is it a pretty cross, would it look good in my living room? Do I see the cross and think, oh, I guess I should have one in my house, others will think I am holy then? Holy people do have a cross in their homes.
Do I see the body of a man, a live man? Do I see His labored breath? Do I see His chest move as His Heart beats within? Do I see the real skin of a man? Do I see the real blood He shed? Do I see the light that silhouettes His withered body? Do I see the Light of the World? Do I see the tender skin of an infant laid on bare wood in the manager and then the torn, lacerated, bloodied skin of this man?
This is love! There is a man on the cross. There is a child born to us today. He is the Light of the World. His light is shining in the darkness, but people do not see. They see the wood, but they view it for the beauty it will create in their newly decorated living rooms.
The cross is not a thing of the past, the cross is with us today. We carry it on our backs as He showed us we would, but we try to take it off and throw it away.
It is in the cross there is the resurrection. It is by meditating on the crucifix, we see His undying love. We must open up our eyes and see. Pray for vision to see clearly the man Who gave Himself for love of us, Our Divine Lord.
And how do we return His love?
Love is spontaneous, love is fire in our hearts, love is alive and emitted with force. God is love.
Do we realize that His last thoughts on the cross were for us. In this agony, as He hung on the cross, He was consumed with burning love for us. When He was scourged at the pillar, He was comforted by our acts of love that we give to Him today. Our burning love for Him was sweetness to His most Sacred Heart in the moments of His bitter Passion.
Love gives and wants to give its all. A person in love does not need to be prompted and told to love. Love wants to give.
Love is given spontaneously, it is not controlled. Love is tenderness pouring forth from the heart. Love is not concerned with commitment, love by itself is committed. It pours forth from the mouth of the lover because of the fire burning deep inside.
Let us study the battered body of Christ on the cross. As I study His pierced hands and feet, His head crowned with thorns, the blood pouring forth from His Heart, as I view the lacerations covering His body, I feel His word well up in my heart. He speaks to me in the depth of my soul and I hear Him say, "I love you. I love you. I love you, to My death on the cross."
He gives, He gives, He gives to us constantly. He gives and how is He treated by us? We take and we take and we take and we don't even say thanks. Thanks for our breath, our heartbeat, the beautiful sky, the sunlit day, the moon at night, the beautiful eyes of our friends. Oh, how many things He gives to us and how ungrateful we are!
How is your day? Is your glass half-empty or half-full?
How often my glass is half empty, as I am reminded by my spiritual director, Fr. Carter. How often I do not thank Our Divine Lord for His gifts!
When I am filled with love, I see more clearly. The secret is to know God's love. We must pray for the grace to know His love more and for the grace to love Him more.
There is a man on the cross. Do we see His undying love for us? He speaks no words. He shows us the crucifix. The words are alive in our hearts.
The Father created us to love and to be loved. God is love. He wants union with us. He gives Himself to us. This is love. There is union in proportion to how I give myself to Him.
Jesus gives and gives and gives and we treat Him "nonchalantly". He gives us love, but we must give ourselves to Him to have union with Him. He wants us to be one with Him.
We must relish the great gifts He gives to us - the greatest gift being the gift of Himself. We should anticipate the great gift of receiving Him in the Holy Eucharist with such eagerness in our hearts. The words I feel in my heart are expressed in the song, "I Love You, Jesus":
Oh Burning Heart, Oh Love divine, how sweet You are to me. I see the host, I know You're here to love and care for me. I know Your love a little now, so dear You are to me. Come give me life, abundant life, I thirst to be with Thee. I cannot say. There are not words to say what my heart feels. I love You so, I scarce can breathe when You come into me. I know Your love a little now, so dear You are to me. Come give me life, abundant life, I thirst to be with Thee. Your tender Heart, Oh how it beats for love of each this day. I want to give You all my love, surrender totally. I know Your love a little now, so dear You are to me. Come give me life, abundant life, I thirst to be with Thee.
When we awake at night, we must think of Him and how we will receive Him the next day. We long to go to Communion to receive Him. We love Jesus in the Eucharist so much. A King comes to us. He enters our body and unites with our soul. He is the King of the kingdom of heaven…He is our Lover, He is the Almighty God, a Divine Person, and He comes to us. He wants us to come to Him with such longing. He wants us to think of Him all day. He wants us to long for Him.
Ps. 63:1-8:
God, you are my God, I pine for you;
my heart thirsts for you,
my body longs for you,
as a land parched, dreary and waterless.
Thus I have gazed on you in the sanctuary,
seeing your power and your glory.
Better your faithful love than life itself;
my lips will praise you.
Thus I will bless you all my life,
in your name lift up my hands.
All my longings fulfilled as with fat and rich foods,
a song of joy on my lips and praise in my mouth.
On my bed when I think of you,
I muse on you in the watches of the night,
for you have always been my help;
in the shadow of your wings I rejoice;
my heart clings to you,
your right hand supports me.The priest says in the Mass at the Offertory, "By the mystery of this water and wine may we come to share in the Divinity of Christ, Who humbled himself to share in our humanity." He gives Himself to us. He shares His Divinity with us. We are human creatures and He shares Himself with us. My heart burns when the priest puts the drop of water in the wine. This is, indeed, a great mystery that God remains with us today, truly present in His Divinity and humanity in the Holy Eucharist, that He gives Himself to us in Communion, and that He waits for us to come to the tabernacle and be with Him. He wants to outpour His divine love and His divine life to us.
We should swoon for our Lover the Almighty, Divine God, yet we go to Him with such cold hearts. He wants our burning love.
The song "I Love You, Jesus":
Oh Burning Heart, Oh Love divine, how sweet You are to me. I see the Host, I know You're here to love and care for me. I know Your love a little now, so dear You are to me. Come give me life, abundant life, I thirst to be with Thee. I cannot say. There are not words to say what my heart feels. I love You so, I scarce can breathe when You come into me. I know Your love a little now, so dear You are to me. Come give me life, abundant life, I thirst to be with Thee. Your tender Heart, Oh how it beats for love of each this day. I want to give You all my love, surrender totally. I know Your love a little now, so dear You are to me. Come give me life, abundant life, I thirst to be with Thee.
end of excerpt from the Mass Book
March 3, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
This homily was delivered by
Fr. Carter in a Mass he
celebrated in China,
Indiana.
This will follow soon.
Here is a picture on the way down
to our little church in China,
Indiana.
March 3, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
This is where the foreign
Priestly Newsletter is mailed
from. This is our distribution
center. Packages are sent all
over the world with Prayer
Manuals, Holy Spirit Novena
prayers, Rosary meditations
for the schools with the
Imprimatur. In October 2000
before Fr. Carter's death we had
requests for about 180,000 rosaries
from Catholic Schools. All materials
for schools have the Imprimatur.
We send consecration cards,
rosaries, the rosary aves
8½ x 11 sheets, stations and
a book of 192 pages
Rosary Meditations for Parents and Children.
and scapulars if we have them.
March 3, 2002 message continues Messenger: Rosary makers make the
Also available for little children
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March 3, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
We will very shortly have a new
15 decade rosary disc and tape
available and also on video with
the pictures of the mysteries of
the rosary led by a special priest
who has been dedicated to the
rosary most of his life. His dedication
includes a deep desire to get people
to pray the rosary.
We hope to get this available
on CD disc very soon.
We will also soon
have the rosary aves available
on disc, tape, video and CD
disc.
We send so many prayer books
and prayer sheets
and rosaries and materials
to Africa.
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MinistriesNigeria
Prayer, Teaching, Child Care Centres,
Youth Ministry, Home Visitation,
Missionary work, Parish & Catechetical work,
Caring for the Sick & Aged(Motto: That is all things God through Mary: may be glorified.)
Dear Rev. Fr. Carter,
Because of your wonderful Union, I feel you and your family workers are blessed and will you continue to do so forever, Amen.
On behalf of the schools and parishes listed, _______ are soliciting for your assistance in the areas of prayer booklets, ie Holy Novena Booklets, Spirituality Handbook etc and rosaries to be distributed among pupils and students prayer groups.
...(she accounts the urgent problem facing the religious schools there)
Please assist us with prayer booklets and rosaries... Pupils and students needs spiritual weapons and prayer directives to assist their faith(s) and prayerful efforts. These spiritual materials are spiritually motivating and stimulating, as such, the key to draw souls to the Lord and His Blessed Mother.
Please value this request to be very important and urgently extend your classical work to the listed catholic schools and parishes who are facing ... persecutions. These schools have applied to the counseling office for booklets and other sacramentals whereas we do not have any within our reach. We got your address and the Counseling authorities have discussed over the issue and decided to compile the addresses and send to you for your assistance. Having heard and seen your noble commitments to Propagate the faith. Please most of these schools and parishes listed are in remote areas. We would highly appreciate your kind attention and immediate assistance.
Kindly send your booklets and rosaries directly to the parish priests, principal(s) and chaplain(s) of the listed schools and parishes. We all will be remembering you daily on the Altar of our Lord and His Blessed Mother, Mother of the church.
Sincerely in Mary, Mother of Mercy.
Sr._____________
Vocational Directoress
March 3, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
Please pray united with us
for the priests, the Church
and the world.
March 3, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
Servants and handmaids
pray hourly here before
the Blessed Sacrament.
Also a big prayer service is
held nightly at 6:20
united to our other centers
and sub-centers, praying with people
in Churches and homes all
over for the priests, the Church
and the world.
Our Lady of China
March 3, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
From the 12th to the 14th many
many people pray for 48 hours
before the exposed Eucharist for the
priests, the Church and the world.
From a Lenten Homily,
Live in the Moment
Today’s Gospel in its story certainly points ahead to Jesus in His Passion and death. And as we read passages such as this during the Lenten season, we are reminded once again that the Church in her Liturgy of the Word gives us an opportunity to undergo a purification, an ever deepening cleansing of ourselves so that we may be a more fit instrument for receiving the great graces which are to be given to us at the time of the Resurrection memorial on Easter. And so all in all, Lent is a time of purification to prepare us for ever-greater gifts of the Lord. It’s a time of self-discipline, a time to renew our efforts to be self-disciplined in the service of the Lord. Self-discipline is an aspect of purification. And I suggest that one of the most difficult acts of self-discipline in the spiritual journey is to concentrate on the present moment. We have a very strong tendency to disregard the importance of the present moment by focusing in a wrong way on the past or in a wrong way on the future. There are proper occasions for thinking of the past and the future. For example, we have to learn from the past and we have to prepare for the future, but our great emphasis has to be upon the present. There is a Latin axiom which says, age quod agis, age quod agis, which means: do what you are doing, concentrate on the present. And of course we are familiar with that term in the history of spirituality: the sacrament of the present moment. And so the discipline of Lent certainly encourages us to include in a deeper self-discipline a greater determination to get as much as we can out of the present moment. People with a terminal illness have an opportunity as they prepare for death for increased prayer, contrition, love of God. However, some are taken very, very quickly. But for those who have the opportunity of knowing with some certainty the time of their death, I’m sure as they look back on their lives, they are saddened by the many times they did not use time and opportunities for the service of the Lord properly, and are overjoyed at those times in which they did use the present opportunity properly. A great means we have of living in the present properly is a greater focus upon our Lord. For if I have that awareness of the fact I am united with Jesus here and now, why should I be concerned so much about the future or the past? Yes, a great help in living in the present and deriving all the good we can from it for ourselves and others is an ever greater focus upon Jesus, because the more I focus upon Jesus and the more I live with Him in the present moment, the more I am satisfied with the present moment. And so let us in our Lenten activity resolve to grow in that self-discipline - which is very difficult at times - to really live in the presence with the fullness of our being as much as is possible, with the help of God’s grace. Now is the day of salvation. Now is the day of salvation.
end of Father Carter's homily
March 3, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
March 3, 2002
It has been five years
since the flooding of the
city of Falmouth, Kentucky.
Excerpt from February 15, 2002 message
Jesus speaks: Make
a list of things that are needed so people
can help if they so desire.
Messenger:
A small list is this
1) Priestly Newsletter Book II Foreign Mailing Postage
2) Mass Book II
3) Rosary Meditations for Little People and Elderly
4) Blue Book I printing
5) Prayer Manuals printing
6) Holy Spirit Novena Booklet printing
7) Rosary beads
8) Image rosaries to sell
9) Pictures (photo's) to make available
10) Blankets of Mary's image
11) Videos for nursing home program
Mary
talks to the Nursing Homes |
12) Little People's Mass Book
Little People's |
13) Little People's Coloring Book of the Mass
February 15, 2002 message continues
Mary speaks:
I ask you to pray for these needs on the list. Those
who can, can pray hourly.
end of excerpt from February 15, 2002
February 7, 2002
To whom it may concern,
We circulate the Priestly Newsletter that goes to 75,000 priests in the world. This has been circulated since 1994 at the direction of Fr. Edward Carter, S.J. who had a doctorate in Theology and taught at Xavier University for over thirty years and author of eighteen books on the spiritual life and many other various publications.
Our primary purpose is to circulate this Newsletter. We are now sending three years of Newsletters in a book of 342 pages to 75,000 priests in the United States and 90 foreign countries. A special Newsletter is enclosed with Father Carter's powerful writing on Grace (2001 issue 1). This writing is also available on tape and on disc.
Our coequal purpose is to circulate prayer manuals Father Carter compiled for prayer chapters praying for the priests, the Church and
the world.All of our printing and postage costs so much money.
We operate from the Virgin Mary building in Clearwater, Florida, pictures are enclosed. We use the building to spread materials and rosaries
to encourage people to pray for the priests, the Church and the world.We also have a church we received from the diocese in China, Indiana where we distribute our materials and pray before the Blessed Sacrament hourly and about two hours or more at 6:20 every day. Monthly adoration before the exposed Eucharist is held for our members for 48 hours on the 12th of each month to the 14th.
We have a third center in Morrow, Ohio which is our communication center and mailing address.
We circulate rosaries handmade to Catholic schools all over the United States and meditation sheets and consecration cards. We try to send scapulars too when we have them. We supply many beads to our rosary makers for this.
We had difficulty all last summer securing funds for beads for our rosary makers. We were not able to send the 100,000 or more rosaries we usually send in October and May because of funds.
We need $10,000 every month for the loan on the Virgin Mary building. We pray nightly there usually for about two hours or more at 6:20. We pray all through the day there, hourly, many times before the image. A big prayer meeting is held on the 5th of the month. Prayers are prayed for about 4 hours for the priests, the Church and the world. We broadcast to at least 8 states and all join in the prayers, including Morrow and China.
We have a nursing home ministry and a prison ministry. We supply coloring books of the rosary mysteries and the Mass to children.
We desperately need funds for the printing and the rosary making operation and all the postage. Bishops from foreign countries beg for rosaries and prayer sheets with the Shepherds of Christ Prayers.
Now we are struggling with the monthly rent on the building and the postage for the foreign mailing of the Priestly Newsletter Book II.
We always need money for the rosary beads for the schools and the Virgin Mary building.
We also do a Holy Spirit Novena, but the little book has been out of print for some time because of lack of funds. Teachers like to use it for confirmation. We have prayer chapters using it daily all over the world.
We want to circulate pictures of the crucifix and Mary's image on the building, we are unable to do this because of lack of funds. Enclosed are pictures of the crucifix and the Virgin Mary building.
A very important part of our Movement is trying to get people to say the Morning Offering. Here is a card we distribute extensively, especially to Nursing Homes and school children.
Here is a short form of consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary that we circulate extensively.
Can you help us. It is a real shame to not even have rent on the building Mary appears on.We need to tell the world about the Mass. This is another important aspect of our ministry. We have so many writings about the Mass. Mass Book I with the Imprimatur—and all Fr. Carter's writings and many other writings discerned by Fr Carter before his death.
It is a shame with all the money in the world not to be able to get the rosary beads to the rosary makers for school children who want them to pray the rosary.
Our movement is trying to do what Our Lady told us to do at Fatima for peace in the world.
Can you help us?
Rita Ring
Shepherds of Christ Ministries
Messenger: Jesus wishes that we give our hearts to Him and Mary.
The following Valentine can be given to Jesus and Mary any day of the year. It is an act of love that would greatly please Him.
Use the following Valentine to fill in your name and the date you gave it to Him.
MY VALENTINE FOR JESUS AND MARY
AND THE WORLDI _________________ give my heart to
You Jesus and Mary on this day
_________________
I promise to help spread the devotion to
the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
The Story of the Crucifix Video
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Nursing Home Mass Video
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Ministries
PO Box 193
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