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March 3, 2003

March 4th Holy Spirit Novena
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March 3, 2003

Jesus speaks:    My dear people,

                                I am a good God. I have given you so many things

                            and you should thank Me for My gifts.

                                I ask you to pray.

                                I have given you these prayers.

                                I ask you to get this mailing to My priests.

                                It is urgent.

                                Oh little toes and old men, your life is but a

                            breathe it passes so quickly, how many

                            have made this life here their end.

                                Sun, moon, stars, light, darkness,

                                pleasure, pain.

                            I ask you circulate these stations during lent.

                            They can be given to schools.

                            Stations with the Imprimatur can be downloaded

                                on a PDF file.
  

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                            Stations with messages can be downloaded
 
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The Ninth Station  
Jesus Falls the Third Time

Jesus: I fell hard the third time. I was so weakened I could not go on. My body collapsed under the cross from such exhaustion! My child, My child, My greatest agonies were not the wounds to the body. They were the wounds I experienced to My heart. Do you know a little more now how I love you? It is in meditating on My Passion and death that you will realize My immense love for you. When you fall, when you struggle, I give you the grace to get up. I never give you more than you can handle. Your strength will come from Me. Come to My Eucharistic Heart. I am waiting for you this day. Oh, how I love you!
    

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ROSARY MEDITATIONS
MARCH 17, 1995 NOON
THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES

Every Friday at Noon, Jesus gave us a very tender rosary. We always did the Sorrowful Mysteries on Friday at 12:00 noon. This was the first rosary received in the Sorrowful Mother Chapel before the exposed Eucharist. Rita was in an ecstatic state. Marty saw angels around the monstrance and Sorrowful Mother statue.

The Agony in the Garden

  1. R. Be with Jesus in the Garden, alone with Him as if you are there and experiencing what He is about to undergo. Think of knowing all that you will suffer. See before you all that He is about to experience. Put yourself with Jesus in the Garden and feel deeply in your heart whatever the Spirit allows you to experience.
  2. Jesus: I am an endless furnace of love. My Heart is beating for each one of you here. See My Heart as it beats. Think of this beating. Think of the beating Heart!
  3. Jesus: I pour out to you My endless love constantly. I never leave you. I am forever with you, second by second, minute by minute. I am forever present with you in this room the same as the day I knelt in the Garden. Be alone with Me. Empty your mind of any distractions, of any concerns. Be totally wrapped in the love that I am giving to you. Open your hearts wide and let Me unite ever so closely within your heart. I am Jesus, your most ardent Lover, on fire for love of you, My beloved ones. As I knelt in the Garden, I pondered the ways of your heart. My Heart ached for all the souls that would treat Me with such indifference and neglect. Comfort My aching Heart with your love for Me.
  4. Jesus: Be with Me as I kneel and see all of the sufferings that I experience. But the sufferings that I experienced to My body were not My greatest sufferings. My greatest sufferings were the agonies that I experienced in My Heart for the endless souls that pay Me no heed, that never come to Me, that stay at such a distance. And I am in love with them, so deeply in love!
  5. Jesus: I call out to you to take My plea seriously. My plea involves the salvation of souls. Open your hearts and let Me unite closely to you so that I can live in you. Through you I will touch My beloved ones that I love so dearly. How I love you this day, My precious ones. Be alone with Me, totally wrapped in My embrace. I am Jesus, your Savior, and I love you with the deepest, tenderest love. I pour My love out to you. Harken to Me. Let go!
  6. Hail Mary ...
  7. Hail Mary ...
  8. Jesus: Surrender! Surrender! Surrender! Open wide the gates to your hearts. You are so closed. You tap at My source so lightly when I am an ocean of endless love and mercy that I want to pour into your hearts. You must surrender to become closely united to Me. You think you are letting go. You are not letting go! You are holding on as tightly as you can hold on. You let go of what you want to let go of. I am calling you to more, to be so closely united that I can operate through you. Will you surrender or will you control everything that is in your life that pertains to Me? I want to live with you second by second, to operate in every deed that you do, to be one with you as you perform those deeds. You are My mighty soldiers to go into the war and to do My work. Surrender! Surrender! Surrender!
  9. Jesus: Open wide the portals of your heart. Let me penetrate every cell of your being. I want such oneness with you. You do not comprehend My immense love. You must surrender!
  10. Jesus: Consecrate yourself totally to My Heart and that of My Mother.

Song between decades: I come to you with greatest love, I am your loving Savior. I am your God, I died for you. I come to you this day.

Jesus Is Scourged at the Pillar

  1. R. His body was beaten! His flesh was torn! He was scourged and bleeding!
  2. R. He stood in total surrender to His persecutors. He knew the Father's Will. He knew the plan of salvation, that He was dying for the salvation of all.
  3. R. He stood in such total submission to these men who treated Him so harshly. He did not answer back, always in compliance with the Father's Will. It is in compliance with His Will that our peace and joy lie. He has a plan for each one of us, His specially loved children.
  4. Jesus: They whipped Me! They tore My flesh! They treated Me with such harshness. I withstood all of this treatment. But the greatest agonies were not the agonies of My body but the agonies in My Most Sacred Heart for all the souls in their busy lives that have totally forgotten Me. I am in your midst and with you this very day and how many come to be with Me? A few! So big is this world and so few even realize that I am God and that I am truly present here with you!
  5. Jesus: They will persecute you! They will treat you with such anger! Come to My Heart and know the immensity of My love. For, minute by minute, second by second, I am ever attentive to all of your needs. I am the most ardent Lover, waiting to be close to you. If you tap ever so gently, there is so much more!
  6. Jesus: I pour My life out to you. My grace is My life. It is divine life that I give. Nothing on this earth compares to this divine life!
  7. Jesus: Pray to be sensitive to My touch. Every time that I give you My grace I am touching you in a special way so that you may respond to all the graces that I am pouring out to you this day.
  8. Jesus: I give to you My Heart as a sign of My immense love for you. See My Heart beating! See it, each pulse of My Heart! This is how I love you. Second by second, minute by minute, I am always there.
  9. Jesus: I want to be one in you, to operate from you! You must surrender!
  10. Hail Mary…

Song between decades: I come to you with greatest love…

Jesus Is Crowned with a Crown of Thorns

  1. R. They pounded into His head a crown of sharp, piercing thorns.
  2. R. Think of how it would be to have someone pound into your head thorns that would puncture your skull. The blood ran from these thorns down His face, into His eyes and into His ears.
  3. R. He had seen before Him in the Garden all of these things that they would do. Now He experienced exactly what He had seen. At any time, He could have stopped anything that happened because He was God! But because He loves each one of us with the deepest love, He allowed them to pound into His skull sharp, piercing thorns that punctured His head. He allowed them to beat Him and tear His flesh. He stood in total submission to the Will of the Father, His Heart ever beating, as it beats for us this day, with deepest love. The same Jesus that suffered this agony loves us with this same love this day. So many do not even think of Him. How His Heart was wounded and hurt for all His beloved ones!
  4. R. This is Jesus Christ. He is truly God! God took the form of a human being because He loved us so much. He took on our human nature. A divine person took on our human form!
  5. R. Who are we that God loves us this much?
  6. R. They spit on Him and they hollered obscenities at Him. Think of the things that irritate us this day. Even when people are not cruel to us, how we ponder in our minds things that we think someone may have done that might have been cruel! But Jesus came to show us the way. They pounded into His Head a crown of sharp, piercing thorns and He loves those who did this to Him. He asks us to love one another. His way is always love. He asks us to purify our hearts, not to give in to the ways of the mind, not to give in to thinking ill thoughts of our brothers, but to purify our hearts and focus on Him. His way is love, always love, not sizing up our brothers or ever thinking harshly of them. See them through His eyes, the eyes of love. See our brothers as the creation of our Father. How He loves each and every soul that He was beaten, that His flesh was torn, that He was crowned with thorns because He loves our brothers so much.
  7. Jesus: I want to tell each one of you this day of My immense love that I have for you. You do not realize how I am truly speaking here to you. You close your hearts. You cut yourself off from the grace I am giving to you. I truly love with the deepest love. Open up your hearts and surrender. My ways are so simple. My ways are truth! You must release yourselves and come to Me for all your needs. Realize that, minute by minute, second by second, I am dealing with you directly.
  8. Jesus: The very hairs of your head are numbered. I am with you at this second and I am providing for every one of your cares and needs but your minds are busy and you think of all that you must do. When will you release yourself and let Me operate with you in every deed that you do? When will you become one with Me so that I can operate through you to do the work that is at hand? You are humans. When I become one with you, the might of God is within you. I can do in one second what a human cannot do in a million years. You must trust. You must surrender. You must let go. Let go now and be totally wrapped in My love, My intense love that I pour out to you, My beloved ones. Let go! Let go! Let go, for I am truly here and working in your heart.
  9. Song: Crown Him with many crowns, the Lamb upon His throne. His regal scepter knows no bounds, all kingdoms are His own. All Christians come and sing to Him Who died for thee and hail Him as thy Savior King for all eternity.
  10. Hail Mary…

Song between decades: I come to you with greatest love…

Jesus Carries His Cross

  1. Jesus: They gave Me a heavy cross that they placed on My shoulder and I carried My cross. I could hardly move but My thoughts were always of you and the immense love that I have for you.
  2. Jesus: This world has rejected God! This world crucified Me! Why do you not realize that they will crucify you, that they will persecute you, that they will holler slanders against you? If they crucified Me, why should they treat you any differently when you spread My word?
  3. Jesus: You are the soldiers that I send into battle, a battle to spread My love throughout this world. It is in your submissiveness and surrender that I can operate through you to give My love to this world.
  4. Jesus: Surrender! Surrender! Surrender! I am calling out to you to take up your cross and go into battle, to battle for Me to spread this love, for souls will be lost to eternal damnation because they do not know My love.
  5. Jesus: Time is drawing near. I tell you! I tell you! I tell you! As I spoke then, and many did not listen, I tell you today that I am depending upon you, My beloved ones. You must fight against the godlessness of this world. But you must go on. You must be My warriors that go into battle. Powered by the fire of My love, you can conquer the earth with your hearts filled with the immense love that I pour out to this world through you. You will be the light that will shine in the darkest night. You will be a city set on a hill that will shine to the rest of this world. Come to My Heart and take refuge in My Heart for I am truly God and I call out to you, My beloved ones, with such tender love this day.
  6. Jesus: As I walked on and on with the heavy cross on My back, a cross which became heavier as I walked, your crosses seem to get heavier each day. Time is so short! The work you do here will help to lead souls to eternal happiness in heaven. Please listen to Me! Have courage! Pray to the Spirit for the fearlessness to do the job that is at hand. I send you into this world to preach the Gospel. You are My soldiers going into battle. You will light up this world. A city set on a hill will shine to the rest of this world. You are the city. You are My soldiers. I send you into battle.
  7. Jesus: In battle there is bloodshed. On My way to Calvary I shed much blood for love of My beloved souls. I ask you to surrender and to do this work for Me this day for I truly gave My life for love of each precious soul. Will you not spread this love to a world that is in pain and hurting?
  8. Jesus: Surrender! Surrender! Surrender! It is not by your own might that you will light up the world. It is only through My power radiating through you. It is only in your oneness with Me. The most important thing you can do is to spend time with Me each day, to become one in Me. Keep your focus on Me and all will fall into line for I am truly here and longing to operate from your hearts. I am the Almighty God. My power is endless, My love a source of such love that no human can even comprehend. I am God! I am speaking to you!
  9. Hail Mary ...
  10. Hail Mary ...

Song between decades: I come to you with greatest love…

Jesus Is Crucified and Dies on the Cross

  1. Jesus: I hung for three agonizing hours on the cross. My body was beaten, My head crowned with thorns. I breathed My last breath, My thoughts always of you, My beloved ones. I truly died for you.
  2. Jesus: Do you not hear My plaintive cries, the cries that I am giving to you this day, to spread this love throughout the world? You are the backbone. You are the ones that will carry this out. You must be strong soldiers. I am speaking directly to you. You are going into battle. It is a hard battle. Do not be discouraged by the opposition that Satan has created for you. He will try to stop you at every turn, but you must be strong soldiers and you must stayed fixed in Me. Only if you are rooted in My love can you do the work that I am asking you to do. You are human. You, on your own, cannot do this work. This work is the work of lighting up the world with the fire of My love. You must be strong soldiers. You are truly battling a world that hates God. Come to My Heart and receive all that you need to light up this world.
  3. Jesus: My Mother stood under My cross. My beloved Mother! How she loves each one of you. Go to the Heart of Mary and reside in her arms. Rest in her Heart. This is Her House. She is with each one of you on your journey. We love you with the tenderest love.
  4. Jesus: As she stood by Me all through My life, she stands by your side. Think of that! Where you are sitting now, Mary is right by you. Do you feel her presence? Put yourself on the other side. Be alone with Us now. Let go of this world. Be touched by the grace of God, special grace that I am giving to you alone. The angels and saints are so present here at this Center. They are in the halls. You do not realize because you do not see. You must be alone with Me and let go of your world to be united ever closer and to see these things that I want to show you.
  5. Jesus: See Me hanging on the cross. Do you see that? Do you need to see with your eyes? Do you know what you feel when you receive the Eucharist? You must reach more and more beyond your vision. Reach into your heart. I communicate in your heart. Such oneness I have with you in your heart! See beyond your eyes, beyond your ears, and go inside into your heart. Minute by minute, second by second, I am there! Mary is with you. My Father and the Holy Spirit are inside of you. You just do not see. Pray more for grace to partake in the life I want to give you.
  6. Jesus: Pray to the Holy Spirit to open your eyes more and more to the things of God. You are all blind men! You do not realize the great gifts that you have. You must be lost in My Heart. Come to My Heart and let Me hold you close to My divine love!
  7. Jesus: My love is burning and on fire for you. Do you see Me as I hang on the cross with My arms outstretched? I held on to nothing! I totally surrendered to the Will of the Father. I held nothing back. I gave My flesh and My blood. I was born in poverty in a stable and I died on the cross. I came to show you the way so that you might have life and have life to the full. Life is not life if it is not rooted in Me!
  8. Jesus: Let Me pour My life out to you. Feel its vibrancy within you. I am truly with you this day and longing for closer union with you. Let go! Let go! Let go!
  9. Jesus: It is in this time that you spend alone with Me that I can work in your heart. Do not look for visions. Do not look to hear things. Go inside of your heart and be alone with Me. Spend this time with Me each day and, through the day, spend short periods, minutes when you just close your eyes and focus on My presence with you, for I am truly present. I will work in your heart when you come to Me in these special moments.
  10. Jesus: This time between noon and 3:00 p.m. is so important to Me. Spend this time focusing on being ever more united to Me and think of My passion. See Me as I hung on the cross. See My flesh torn! See the blood as it ran down My body. Spend this time each Friday focused from noon until 3:00 p.m. on My passion. It is in meditating on this passion that you will realize My immense love that I have for you. I truly gave My blood. I gave you My flesh. I give you My body and I give you My blood this day in the Eucharist. Come to Me and spend time with Me after Communion and let Me work in your heart, for I love you so dearly, My beloved ones. I am Jesus. Jesus! I love you so much!

Song after the last decade: I come to you with greatest love…

   
  

  
ROSARY MEDITATIONS
MARCH 21, 1995
THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES

This rosary was said by candlelight during the Tuesday Shepherds of Christ meeting. Jesus told Rita to pray this rosary in front of the Pieta statue in the back of the Rosary chapel. Rita was in an ecstatic state. Some present at the Rosary saw Jesus alive in the statue and blood running from His wounds. During the crucifixion His face was white. Mary was seen crying.

The Agony in the Garden

  1. R. Be there with Jesus in the Garden in the darkened night as He kneels. Before Him He sees all the sufferings He is about to undergo.
  2. R. His Heart is in such anguish to see before Him all the souls that will be lost despite all the sufferings He is about to experience.
  3. R. We tap ever so lightly at the door of His Heart. He is an endless, burning furnace of fire, on love for each one of us. He says, "You do not know even the smallest amount of the immensity of the love that I have for you. You must come into My Heart. It is in My Heart that I lavishly give you My great love."
  4. R. Think of the Heart of the Virgin Mary from the first moment of conception and how she carried the child within her womb, how she watched Him at play. All through His life Mary was there, to His death on the cross. How her Heart knows the Heart of Jesus! She stood under the cross. She held His lifeless body in her arms under the cross. It is through the Heart of Mary that we will more tenderly embrace the love that Jesus has for us. See Him as He kneels in the Garden, His Heart in such anguish. His sweat became as great drops of blood upon the ground. He knew all the souls that would reject this immense love that He has, who would not even care, who would go about their days without even thinking of Him. Yet He longs to be so united to each one of us so that every action we perform is an acton we do in oneness with Him. Jesus' Heart was in such anguish that His sweat became as great drops of blood on the ground.
  5. R. Think of the mystery all through this rosary! Think of the mystery! There is a mystery when there is blood! The blood comes from deep within. Think of the mystery that Jesus sweat blood! He was in such anguish!
  6. R. He tenderly calls to us day after day. Do we hear His gentle call, deep within our hearts, to be joined ever closer to Him? How many times do we reject the love that Jesus outpours to us because we are not sensitive to the little call that He makes to us in our hearts. He suffered in the Garden for all the souls He loved so dearly, some of whom would reject Him totally.
  7. R. He suffered in the Garden for all of our sins, for our haughtiness and our pride, for our lack of compassion and mercy for our brothers. Yet He gives to us unconditional love and asks us to love one another. In the Our Father we say, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those…" He suffered for all the times that we say no to forgiving our brothers. We forgive some but not all and think it is okay. Jesus loves each and every soul.
  8. Jesus: Come to My open Heart through My pierced side. Look at the wound in My side. Suffering helps you reach My immense love. Enter My Heart through My pierced side and fall deeply into the abyss of My great love.
  9. Jesus: Do not let your hearts turn cold! You must come to Me with hearts that are soft and ready to love. Put aside all the hardness in your hearts, for a soul that is haughty and angry cannot unite with My love. I long to be in the deepest union with each one of you present. So deep! You cannot fathom the great love that I have for you. You must clean your hearts of all the debris. Sweep away the unforgiveness and come into My Heart through My pierced side.
  10. Jesus: My Heart was in such agony that I sweat blood. Do you know, even a small amount, the immense love that I have for you? I was born a helpless baby in the town of Bethlehem and I gave My flesh and My blood for love of you.

Song between decades: I come to you with greatest love, I am your loving Savior. I am your God, I died for you. I come to you this day.

Jesus Is Scourged at the Pillar

  1. R. Think of Jesus! Visualize Him, totally present, His body here! See Him as they lead Him away. They poke at Him! They pull His hair! See this so clearly in your mind. A person named Jesus being led away!
  2. R. What a sight for our eyes if we truly saw what happened there, if we saw them with such violence and anger tie Jesus, our friend, to the pillar and then take out weapons and beat His flesh!
  3. R. This is your best friend, Jesus Christ. They have tied Him to a pillar and they are beating Him with instruments that are tearing His flesh. The blood is pouring down His body!
  4. R. They shout at Him and they holler angry and ugly remarks. He does not respond, only grunts as they hit Him harder. To their own exhaustion they beat Jesus. Watch this!
    Jesus: It is in your heart that you will know Me, My dear children. You must visualize more and more the lives of Myself and My Mother. As you go through these mysteries of the rosary, put yourself there. See as if you were present. Experience what I went through. It is in knowing Our lives that you will know the great love that We have for you.
  5. R. He stood in a puddle of His own blood!
  6. R. This is my beaten friend Jesus! He shed His blood for love of me so that I may be with Him forever in heaven.
  7. R. Hear the blows that they give to Jesus! Listen! Hear the blows! These are the blows that He suffered for love of each one of us. He suffered those blows for each and every soul, the poor beggar, the person that is a little different, the person that is not as rich as I am, the person that is somewhat short, the person that I think looks strange. Jesus stood at the pillar and was beaten for each one of these persons. These are my brothers! When Jesus came to the world, He made us brothers with God!
  8. R. If I stood at the pillar next to you, Jesus, and they beat my back and tore my flesh, if I did it for someone here and they did not even think about me, how my heart would ache. But you are God! You, who are infinite Love, suffered this brutal persecution for love of each one of us. How did Your Heart ache, Jesus, when you suffered your bloodied flesh and knew that people would not even think about You?
  9. R. And what do you ask of me, Jesus? To love God and love my brother! To become more closely united to You as You outpour divine love and divine life!
  10. Jesus: I call you to purity. I call you to open up your hearts, to rid yourselves of anything that is impure. I long to be closely united with each of you. People are watching you! If you call yourselves Christians, then you must act as I would act! Do you preach the Gospel in your actions? Is your way the way of love? I came to show you the way. Will you follow Me? Will you love all your brothers as I ask you to do? People are watching you, My faithful Christians, apostles that I send into this world to spread the love of My Most Sacred Heart. You are being watched and are teaching so many lessons through your example. I call out to you today to rid yourselves of all impurities in your heart. Then you will receive a reward that far surpasses anything you can gain on this earth. You will receive closer union with My Most Sacred Heart. I love you! I love you! I love you! Moment by moment, second by second, I am there to provide you with everything you need. You must surrender and trust in Me!

Song between decades: I come to you with greatest love…

Jesus Is Crowned with a Crown of Thorns

  1. Jesus: They tore My flesh! They beat My body! I shed My blood! They pounded into My head a sharp crown of thorns that pierced My head and punctured My forehead!
  2. R. Jesus, You bled for love of each one of us. Help us to realize during this Lenten season the immensity of Your love as we meditate on Your wounds, the wounds to Your most precious Head, the wounds that you suffered to Your hands and feet. How would it be to rub our hands across Jesus' head, to touch the puncture wounds from the thorns! He truly suffered this for love of us!
  3. R. The thorns were pounded into His head and He bled down His face and into His hair. Think of His hair covered with blood from the thorns that punctured His head!
  4. R. Let me kiss your wounds, dear Jesus, the wounds that you suffered for love of me! Let me enter into the wound in Your side. The more deeply I enter into this wound, the more I enter the abyss of the endless love of Your Most Sacred Heart.
  5. Song: Crown Him with many crowns, the Lamb upon His throne. His regal scepter knows no bounds, all kingdoms are His own. All Christians come and sing to Him Who died for thee. And hail Him as our Savior King for all eternity.
  6. R. Jesus is God! He is the King of all Kings! God took on a human nature and came into this world a helpless baby. Now He is spit upon and taunted, He is hollered at and He sits on a mockery of a throne.
  7. R. We look for love in so many places when, minute by minute, second by second, Jesus is inside of our hearts telling us how He is truly there and loving us.
  8. R. If you put your fingers into the nail marks in His hands and into His side, would you believe that, minute by minute, second by second, He loves you so much, and that He is God and will provide you with all your needs?
  9. Song: Only this I want, but to know the Lord. And to bear His cross and to wear the crown He wore.
  10. R. Minute by minute, second by second, hear the soft, gentle voice within your heart say, "I love you, I love you, I love you. It is in realizing this immense love that there is love to give to others.

Song between decades: I come to you with greatest love…

Jesus Carries His Cross to Calvary

  1. R. He came to serve. He came into the world in such poverty in a stable in the town of Bethlehem. He left this world hanging on a cross. Both were bare wood! He came to show us the way! Meditate on this mystery as He carries His cross. The Son of God! He took on human form for love of us. He came to show us how to love.
  2. Song: We were made for service to care for each other. We were made to love each sister and brother. With love that will last our whole life through…
  3. R. Jesus came and He loved and He preached the Gospel. His way was love. He always acted in love and they condemned Him to death. When we preach the Gospel, when we act from love, why do we expect people to treat us differently when they treated Jesus this way? But He came and carried His cross to show us His way and His way is the way of love. He promises to us an everlasting reward far beyond our comprehension. Look at the Virgin Mary and the Pieta. Look at her face and see through her eyes as she watches her Son, with the cross on His back, covered with blood and wounds. This is her beloved Son! Look at her face. She comes today to ask us to go into this world and to spread His love. She asks us to open up our hearts and put aside any hatred or anger that we have, for if we do not spread this love, who will spread love into this world? Open up your hearts! Be not hardened but be as Jesus has asked us to be, with hearts that are filled with love, going into battle in a world that has forgotten God. He calls us this day to be His soldiers, to spread the fire of His love throughout the world. You may be persecuted, you may be spit on. Whatever happens, remember what they did to Him. His way is love and His reward is everlasting life.
  4. R. These are rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. See their eyes as they gaze at one another on the way to Calvary. Look at her face here! The horror, on top of more horror, to behold her beloved Son in such anguish! She asks us to see through her eyes the suffering that her Son endured for love of us. The more we realize the love He has, the more we will go into the world and take this love to others. We are soldiers of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
  5. R. He wants to become one with us so that it is no longer we who operate, but it is He Who operates in us, so that our every action is an action that we perform with Jesus, and the might is the might of the Almighty God within us! In order to unite this way with Him, we must be ever pure. Love unites only with love! If our hearts are filled with hatred and anger for any person, we cannot be one with Him. He longs for this love. He longs to be one in us! He wants to penetrate our souls with the fire of His love. Pray to the Spirit so that the Spirit moves inside of you.
  6. R. See the horror in Mary's face and in her eyes. How would your face look if you were looking at your Son, covered with blood and wounded, as He fell under the cross? How would your face look? How would your heart be? It is through Mary's pure and sinless Heart that she will take us deeper and deeper into the Heart of Jesus. There is such oneness between these two Hearts, such connection between them! Look at the Pieta and see her, see her face, as she watches the Passion of her Son!
  7. R. They hit Him on the head and the blood ran from the corners of His mouth. His face was covered with blood and Veronica wiped His face.
  8. Jesus: My children, My children! I do not tell you things to be taken lightly. In My Heart I am longing for such union with you but you do not hear. You close your eyes and plug up your ears. You do not listen time and time again. I have come to you this evening and I have asked you to pray in front of this statue. I ask you to meditate on this. You do not know what I am saying to you. You take these words lightly. This world is in pain. You do not know the sufferings that are about to befall you. I ask you to listen, to listen to Me! I am truly Jesus Christ and I come to you this day and I beg you to spend your waking hours spreading My love throughout this world! I beg you to help save souls from damnation. Your actions are so important to Me and the plan of the Father. You are here because you are called and you have answered this call. Each and every one of you present I send into this world as warriors to spread My love. You listen and you take it so lightly but you will know that I am truly calling you for this world is in such sin and pain. To the little work that you do I will apply My grace to lead souls to My Most Sacred Heart. Surrender and become one in Me for I truly am calling you to the highest union for it is in this union that I can operate through you. As long as you resist My call there are many souls that will not be touched. I beg you to take Me seriously. Meditate on this statue (the Pieta). Meditate on this, My children.
  9. Jesus: I carried My cross on My back And I fell under the cross. See Me as I crawl with the cross on My back.
  10. Jesus: This is the love that I have for each and every soul. The bodily agonies I experienced were nothing compared to the agonies I experienced in My Heart for the souls that would be condemned to eternal damnation despite My sufferings. I beg you this day to answer My call.

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Jesus Is Crucified and Dies on the Cross

  1. R. He hung for three agonizing hours against the darkened sky. He gave His flesh! He gave His blood! He gave the last beat of His Heart, the last breath in His body! Covered with blood and weakened, He hung on the cross!
  2. Jesus: I speak and so many do not listen! I am crying out to you to listen to My voice here, to read My letters for they are truly letters of love that I give to each one of you. It is in reading these letters that you will know more and more the immensity of the love that I have for you. You are My soldiers that I send into the sick world with the medicine to heal so many hearts. You are the chosen ones I have called here to this Center. Please, I beg you, take My call seriously, for I am truly Jesus and I speak to you this day. So many take My plea lightly. I beg! I plead! I ask Rita to talk more and more about My pleadings. You do not know how I am longing for you to be so close. How I want you to surrender and let Me operate in your hearts! You tap ever so lightly when there is an ocean of My love that I want to give to you. Surrender your hearts and read My letters of love for it is in these letters that you will know My love more and more.
  3. Jesus: I give Myself to you at every Eucharist and you take it so lightly! Take Me seriously, My children, for I am truly with you with much love! How it wounds My aching Heart that you do not listen.
  4. Jesus: I am sending you into battle in a world that is godless, that has forgotten God, but with your hearts filled with My love. Will you answer My call?
  5. Jesus: Surrender! Surrender! Surrender to the God Who gave His life for you!
  6. Jesus: As Mary walked by My side on the way to Calvary, as she stood under the cross, she is by your side in all your sufferings. You are never alone.
  7. Jesus: I give you My very own Mother!
  8. R. As she held His little baby body, she now holds His lifeless body in her arms under the cross.
  9. Song: At the cross her station keeping stood the mournful Mother weeping. Close to Jesus to the last.
  10. R.This rosary is from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, so united, one with each other. To love Jesus is to love Mary. To love Mary is to love Jesus.

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ROSARY MEDITATIONS
MARCH 1, 1995
THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES

The Agony in the Garden

  1. Jesus: Surrender! Surrender to Me as I surrendered to the Father in the Garden. I said to My Father, "Nevertheless, let your will be done, not mine." (Lk 22:42) As you are in your hearts troubled and anxious, I am there ever present to comfort you, to give you My peace. Let go, let go, let go! I am forever with you at every second, at every moment. I do not go! I forever remain in your hearts. Let go! As you live, so do I live in you!
  2. Jesus: I knelt in the Garden in such agony! I saw before Me all that I would undergo, all the beatings, all the scourging. I knew the Father's Will. I complied with the Father's Will as I ask you to surrender totally to Me. Let go! Focus on Me! Do not focus on those things that are parading in your mind, but release your mind to the mysteries of heaven, to My Passion and My death!
  3. Jesus: And My faithful ones, who came to comfort Me-they slept!
  4. Jesus: Indifference! Ingratitude! Neglect! I saw before Me all those who would neglect Me and treat Me with indifference. How My Heart ached with pain to see the souls that I loved so dearly filled with such nonsense!
  5. Jesus: My Heart, an endless furnace of divine love, of divine life, beating and burning for love of precious souls and they do not see! They have closed their eyes and plugged up their ears and I wait and long to be ever close to them! Spread My love throughout this world. You will be met with resistance on all sides. But I beg you this day to listen to My cry. I cry out to you to stand firm. I am calling you to stand up against the world.
  6. Jesus: As one crying in the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord. I cry out to you to go to the highways and byways. Shout from the rooftops that I am Lord and that I am in your midst this day. Prepare Me a way, for I am coming!
  7. Jesus: I saw before Me all the souls that would be lost to eternal damnation despite all My sufferings. I call out to you this day to harken to My pleading to be about this world spreading My love. There are souls that are at stake, depending upon what you do with your lives. Will you spread My love? Will you be My mouthpiece to this world? I call out to you. You must stand strong and pray to the Spirit for He transforms you from fear to fearlessness. You are My apostles to go into this world and spread the love of My Most Sacred Heart!
  8. Jesus: As I knelt in the Garden, as I suffered so many agonies in My Heart, I was comforted by the love that you show to Me this day.
  9. Song: O Burning Heart, O Love divine! How sweet You are to me. I see the Host, I know You are here, to love and care for me.
  10. Jesus:The world is blind and deaf! They have plugged up their ears and covered their eyes. You must go into this world. You must stand strong. You have a message of My love to give. I beg you to give this message to the world that is in much pain, that has covered its eyes and plugged up its ears. I beg you to spread this love in every corner of this world this day. You are apostles that I send into this world.

Song between decades: I come to you with greatest love. I am your loving Savior. I am your God. I died for you. I come to you this day.

Jesus Is Scourged at the Pillar

  1. Jesus: The blood that I shed when I was scourged was blood red! My Heart, which beats out of endless love for you, is a Heart that is red, beating with a burning fire for love of you. I call out to you to draw yourselves ever closer to My Heart for I am waiting and longing and thirsting for your love. Let go of the little distractions you have this day that keep you from increased union with Me. Release yourself and be totally alone in deep union with Me. See only Me. Let go. Release yourselves! I am here with You!
  2. Jesus: Totally focus on Me!
  3. Jesus: Release yourself from all the distractions in your heart. Be alone in deep union with Me!
  4. Jesus: Just as I shed My blood for you as they scourged Me, My Heart cries this day in endless love.
  5. Jesus: See them as they beat Me at the pillar. Hear the blows! This is the love that I have for you. This day will you be alone with Me and totally focus on only Me? Let yourself go. Be in a room where we are together in close union.
  6. Jesus: And our hearts beat so closely, as one!
  7. Hail Mary ...
  8. Jesus: See Me at the pillar! See Me as I stand with the deepest love for all souls.
  9. Song: Come unto Me all who are weary and find rest for your souls. Come unto Me, all who are burdened. I will comfort you.
    Jesus: I am with you in deep union despite the distractions and all that goes on around you. I am so closely connected with you! Your concentration on Me is important to your union with Me. Focus totally on My beating Heart and the love that I have for you. My Heart beat with deep love as I stood at the pillar and bled dark red blood.
  10. Jesus:It is this blood I shed for you, this blood I gave for you, that I ask you to focus on this day. Think of what it is like to shed your blood for another person. Would you shed your blood for another person? I shed My blood for you. In meditating on this blood that I shed, you will realize more and more the immensity of My love.

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Jesus Is Crowned with a Crown of Thorns

  1. Jesus: I come to talk to you to tell you the desires of My Heart. As people are blind and do not see, I talk to you this day and ask you to focus on Me and to know that I am truly with you. As you breathe and as your heart beats, I am ever present and within you. I am here present with you. I am the Almighty God! My love I outpour to you. My grace I give to you.
  2. Jesus: I am the Almighty God! I am forever present. It is in your suffering that you are strengthened. I ask you to focus on the crown of thorns they placed on My head. As the blood ran down the sides of My face, think of how this felt! As I sat wounded, My body covered with deep wounds and bleeding, the blood ran into My eyes and into My ears. This is the blood that I shed for you.
  3. Jesus: Put yourself there as I sit. Feel as they spit on Me! Feel as they poke at Me! Think of how you would feel to be treated the way they treated Me! Put yourself on the chair and go through My sufferings with Me.
  4. Jesus: Feel your head as it pounds from the thorns! Feel the blood as it runs on your body! Feel the gashes that burn so deeply under the cloak! Feel the spit as it hits your face! This is the love that I have for you!
  5. Jesus: I ask you to be My soldiers, to go out into this world. They persecuted Me. They whipped Me. They crowned Me with thorns and they put Me to death. I loved those who treated Me so violently. I ask you this day to focus entirely on Me. If the earth falls down around you, interiorly the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are forever within your breast with such love.
  6. Jesus: No person can ever take away your union within with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Your union forever and ever and ever in eternity depends upon the union you have with God here.
  7. Jesus: I call you to sainthood! I call you to holiness! As I suffered this spit that hit My face and body, I call you to suffer with Me all the persecution that you may receive. For in this persecution I am totally present at every second. As your heart beats, as you breathe every breath, I never leave you! If the earth shakes around you, if it rocks and the floor cracks, you will sit steadfast for I never leave you. Hear the small, gentle voice within your heart as it calls to you, "I love you, I love you, I love you!"
  8. Jesus: My Heart is bleeding from the indifference I receive in this world. I call out to you to be strong soldiers. You must focus on Me and this interior committedness to Me.
  9. Hail Mary ...
  10. Song: Crown Him with many crowns, the Lamb upon His throne. His regal scepter knows no bounds. All kingdoms are His own. All Christians come and sing to Him who died for Thee. And hail Him as our Savior King for all eternity.

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Jesus Carries His Cross Up Calvary

  1. Jesus: Hear the still, small voice as it says so gently inside: "I love you, I love you, I love you!"
  2. Jesus: I ask you to carry your crosses as I carried Mine. The cross was so heavy I could scarcely move. I fell under its weight. I ask you to accept your crosses willingly. It is in accepting these crosses that you will be strengthened for I provide everything you need. Your lessons I teach you with the greatest love. Your crosses I give you out of great love for you. It is in these crosses that you receive new life, new life in Me! Accept all that I give you!
  3. Jesus: As I walked with My cross on My back, I peered into the beloved eyes of My dear Mother. Her face was reddened! The tears from her eyes! I could see the sufferings deep within far more than the features of her face. How My Heart was torn to see My beloved Mother, whom I love so much, riddled with such suffering!
  4. Jesus: I watch you, My child. I am forever with you! I know all the desires, the sufferings, of your heart. It is in your sufferings, your acceptance of your sufferings, that you give Me such great love.
  5. Jesus: How do you love Me, child? You love Me through holiness, through loving your brothers. Always love! I loved those who persecuted Me. You must always love! Focus on the love I have for you and hear the still, small voice as it whispers within your heart: "I love you, I love you, I love you!"
  6. Jesus: You are My beloved ones. You I love. You I want closer union with. You, you, My precious loved ones!
  7. Jesus: Carry the crosses that I give to you with great joy, for they are given to you with My great love. It is in carrying these crosses that you will receive new life in Me.
  8. Jesus: I was crowned with thorns! I was beaten over My entire body! I was always at peace. Remain at peace for you know the immense love that I have for you. I never leave you.
  9. Jesus: It is in following the Father's Will and living in His Will as a little child that you will have peace, joy and true happiness.
  10. Jesus: My dear soldiers, you are being strengthened for the days ahead. I am totally with you and present. All that you undergo I am allowing. I ask you to accept each and every suffering that I give you as a gift from Me to you, given out of great love! It is in these sufferings that you will be drawn ever closer to My Most Sacred Heart.

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Jesus Dies on the Cross

  1. Jesus: I hung for three agonizing hours to My death on the cross! Put yourself on the cross. Your hands nailed, your feet nailed to the cross! Your body covered with wounds! Put yourself there!
  2. Jesus: It is in meditating on My passion that you will know of My immense love.
  3. Jesus: I truly hung there to My death!
  4. Jesus: I accepted death on the cross in compliance with My Father's Will and in great love for you.
  5. Song: I come to you with greatest love. I am your loving Savior. I am your God. I died for you. I come to you this day.
  6. Jesus: This is the love that I have for you this day. I ask you to put the world aside. Focus on loving one another. Focus on Me! I fill you with this immense love. Hear the cry of the voice inside: "I love you, I love you." Do not be angry with those around you. It is your committedness to Me, committedness to this union with Me, to making Me the center of your every thought, to letting Me live in you, through you and with you, and at every second to totally surrender, that allows Me to operate in you. It is no longer you who live, but I who live in you!
  7. Jesus: You are My chosen ones, to whom I give My Heart!
  8. Jesus: My Heart was pierced with a lance and what poured out was the abounding love from My Heart, blood and water for your salvation!
  9. Jesus: It is up to you to let go! Always love! I loved those who persecuted Me. I did not hold grudges. I loved. There is no division in love. There is always unity in love. You must love all! I loved those who put Me to death! I surrendered always to the Father's Will. Anything that happens to you this day I am allowing! Accept what I am giving to you today and love it as coming from Me.
  10. Jesus: Among the thorns there will be a bed of roses. Come to My bed of roses!

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NOVEMBER 13, 1996
THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES

This rosary was received on Wednesday, November 13, 1996 at an International Shepherds of Christ Associates Meeting at Tom Arlinghaus’ farm in Kentucky. The rosary was led by Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J., spiritual director of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. The meditations and messages were given to Rita Ring during the rosary. This rosary was received live and transcribed from the recording. This live recording can be obtained by writing Shepherds of Christ Publications. All of these meditations have been discerned by Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J.

The Agony in the Garden

  1. Messenger: Let us join in one mind and one heart in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Let go of all the distractions in our minds and in our hearts.
    Jesus: I beg you, My beloved ones, to open your heart that I may pour My love and My grace into your heart. I am Jesus. I have called each and every person to this rosary. This is an urgent cry. You are My chosen ones that I am sending into this world to carry My light into the darkness. You are here because I have called you and prompted you to come. Open your heart and let Me speak to you. As you walk with Me through the Passion experience the suffering that I suffered, but know always that the glory of the resurrection is close at hand. In your life you suffer this day, but you know there is the resurrection. The victory has been won. I am pouring into you My abundant life that you will be closer and closer to My Sacred Heart, but you must open your heart and listen to the message that I deliver to you. I love you, My beloved ones. I love you. To My death on the cross, I loved you.
  2. Messenger: God is love. We were created in His image and likeness to love and to be loved. He commands us to love God and to love one another. This is not an invitation it is a command from the Almighty God that we must love. We were made for love, to give love, and to receive love. This is what will make us happy. We are the children of God and God is love.
  3. Be with Jesus in the garden. Be there. Hear the sounds of the night. Picture the garden as vividly as possible in your mind. Jesus wants us to study pictures when we are meditating on the rosary. Let us create the perfect picture of the garden in our mind. Let us hear the sounds of the night and let us see our beloved Savior, our beloved Jesus, bent over in the garden in utter anguish and pain. Let us go to the Heart of Jesus. Let us feel as Jesus felt in the garden. In our hearts, we know what it is to love someone so much-to love and to give, to love and to give, to love and to give, and how it hurts when we are rejected. How it is utter pain within our hearts. Jesus is love. Jesus loves perfectly. Jesus loved each one of us in the garden. Jesus loved me with the most perfect love. Let us experience the love in His Heart, love and giving from the Heart of Jesus and let us experience the rejection, the indifference, the hatred that Jesus receives from His beloved souls.
  4. The Heart of Jesus, a burning furnace of divine love, Jesus loving each one of us perfectly. We do not comprehend the love of our Savior, but we know how we love and how we are hurt when we are rejected, when others do not accept our love. Feel this pain in your heart. Think of Jesus this day in the tabernacle, the Almighty God, all powerful and almighty, remaining in the tabernacle, giving Himself to us in the Eucharist and look at how He is treated! I have heard Him say over and over again, "I give Myself to you! I give Myself to you and I am rejected and forgotten and treated as a dead object." Jesus is alive. How do we treat Jesus? Do we treat Jesus as He is alive. Jesus, Who longs and thirsts for our love. Jesus, Who is love Himself, how is He treated?
  5. Song: I Love You Jesus
  6. He has chosen His beloved priests. He has anointed them. He has given to them the great gift of changing bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ and administering the Sacraments. It is through His most Sacred Heart, that His life flows through the hands of His holy priests. He has chosen them and He loves them. I hear Him lament over and over again how He is longing and thirsting especially for their love. He has told us over and over again not to criticize the priests for they are His chosen ones, but to love them and to pray for them. It is in this movement as it spreads across the earth that many fervent and holy souls are praying for His beloved priests. For it is through their hands that the grace flows as they administer the Sacraments, as they Consecrate the Host into His Body and Blood.
  7. Song: I have called you by name...
  8. He has said that it is because of His beloved religious that He sweat Blood in the garden, for He longs and thirsts and wants their love. He has chosen His religious in a special way, yet He is rejected by many of them. In the garden, He was comforted the most by the love of the holy priests, by the holy religious, and He was wounded most by their indifference and their neglect.
  9. The priest is another Christ in this world. The more he is one in his relationship with Christ, the more grace will flow through him. We must pray-pray as we have never prayed before for our beloved priests. This is an urgent message that Jesus has delivered-that He wants us to pray for the priests. The fire of His love will spread across this earth and many souls will be fed through the hands of the priests. We must pray for the priests. We must spread this consecration. It is through the newsletter that many priests will know more and more about the Heart of Jesus. It is only in going through the pure and sinless Heart of our Lady, that we can go to the very depth of the Heart of Christ, for we are sinners. We must spread this consecration to the priests. The priestly newsletter is Jesus’ instrument to touch the priests.
  10. We see Jesus as He kneels in the garden. His face is covered with Blood and sweat. This is the Almighty God. He loved us so much that He suffered such anguish for us. He is asking us to pray for His beloved priests, to help spread the newsletter, to contact the priests, and to ask them if they receive this newsletter. It is through the hands of holy priests that the grace will flow more abundantly on the earth.

The Scourging at the Pillar

  1. Messenger: He has called us, His special apostles, to hear this message. Each and every person in this room has been called by Jesus. Do not focus on me. Open your heart and listen to the message that He wishes to deliver to you. The Almighty God is calling us to help in the renewal of the Church and the world. As we meditate on these Sorrowful Mysteries of the rosary, as we see how Jesus suffered to His brutal death on the cross, why do we not think that He would send messages this day to help in the renewal of His beloved Church to help to lead souls to His most Sacred Heart? There is sickness in the world and in the Church. He is delivering these messages to draw all to the mighty medicine which is His burning love. We are hungry. We are starving. We want to be fed. We will only be fed with the love of God. He is delivering these messages of His love. We are His apostles that He is sending out to the world to carry this message of His love, to light up the darkness. Can we say "no" to Jesus? Open your heart and listen to the message. Do not focus on me. Focus on the message He wishes to deliver to you and meditate on His suffering, how He gave Himself to His death on the cross.
  2. It is in consecration that we will have peace in this world. It is in the Shepherds of Christ Movement, as we the apostles press forward to the Church, to the school, and to the family, that hearts will be turned to consecrated hearts. He is calling us His apostles. He is giving us abundant grace to join in such oneness with His Heart. We are His shepherds that He is sending to lead the strayed ones home, home to His Heart. As we take the consecration to the Church, to the school, and to the family, the strayed ones too will be led home, home to His Heart. Why has Jesus chosen us? He has given to us a great grace that He has called us here, that He has given us the desire to consecrate our hearts, that He has given us a desire for the Eucharist and for His life. This is a special grace that He has given us, that we will become more and more united to Him, that He will operate in us for Jesus no longer walks the earth. Jesus is alive. Jesus wants to live in us in a special way and touch the hearts of His beloved souls. Will we say "yes"? Will we open up our hearts, rid ourselves of bitterness and anguish, put aside all of the dividing factors that are in our hearts, and let our hearts be turned into hearts of love as Jesus wants our hearts to be? He is giving to us an abundant grace in the Shepherds of Christ Movement to be one in His Heart. Let us give our hearts to Jesus and Mary.
  3. See Jesus, the Almighty God, all powerful, almighty, tied to the pillar. See Jesus, His hands tied, and see the anger in the faces of the men that beat Him. See His flesh torn and the Blood fly into the air. Does Jesus love? Jesus loves us so much, the Almighty God, that He gave Himself for love of us. How we complain about the little sufferings! Are we persecuted? Look at how Jesus was persecuted. He gave the message of His love to this world and He was hung on a cross. Do we expect any different when we go into a world that has rejected Him? See Jesus, look into His eyes as He is tied to the pillar. See the love in His eyes. Even when He is beaten and His flesh is torn, there is love in His eyes. He gave, He gave, and He gave because of the love that consumed Him. This is what He wants of us-hearts of love to give and to give and to give. Oh how we act like Jesus and we give and we give and we give and then we are persecuted and we want to run the other way and cry. His way is to give. He laid His life down for us. He wants us to love that we will lay our lives down for each other, that the priest will give his life for his flock, that the husband will love his wife that he would give his life for his wife, that the parent would love their children this way, that we love one another as brothers in Christ. His way is love. It is not an invitation; it is a command. We were created to love, to love God and to love one another. This is the way to happiness in our hearts.
    Jesus: You are My beloved apostles of love that I have called in this room this day. Who will I send if you say "no"?. I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God. This is My movement to go into the world to help lead the strayed ones to My Heart. As you go to the churches, the schools, and the families, they will be led through the consecration to Our Hearts of love. You are My chosen ones. You are My apostles. I am giving to you an abundant grace that you will become one in Me. I am begging you to answer this request. You can say "no" and turn away. You can focus on My messenger. You can say it is somebody else’s job. I am calling you this day. On November the 13th, you were called by Me. It is an urgent request that you spread the consecration to this world. This is the good news: if you comply with My Mother’s wishes at Fatima, many hearts will be turned to hearts of love and many souls will be saved. I am begging you to listen to this message. To give yourselves, give yourselves to the Heart of My Mother. It is in her pure and sinless Heart that you will go into My Heart and be united in such oneness with Me. I love you. I love you. I love you. To My death on the cross, I loved you. I beg you, My beloved ones, to help Me to spread the consecration to this world.
  4. Messenger: See Jesus at the pillar. See His flesh torn. See how deep the wounds are. See the angry faces of the men that are beating Him, their hearts filled with hatred, filled with the work of the devil. And His Heart was torn within His chest for He loved those men that beat Him and tore His flesh.
  5. Jesus: I give you Myself, My beloved ones. This day I give you Myself in the Eucharist. I long and I thirst for your love. I am consumed with love for you. I will never abandon you. I am thirsting, thirsting, thirsting for your love. Will you come to Me and pour your love out to Me? I want your love. I want you to come to Me and tell Me how you love Me. I am God. I am love. I want this love from you. I am alive, I am alive, I am alive and I am treated as a dead object. I deliver these messages to you. I know your heart. I know each heart in this room and I want your love. I want this love relationship with you. Will you say no to Me? Will you turn away or will you give your heart to Me? Will you spend the moments with Me after Communion when I am waiting and longing to be so close to you? Will you tell Me, "Oh Jesus, I love You. I love You. I love You. I love You, God." This is what I want to hear from you. You are longing and thirsting and wanting love, and I have this love to give to you. And you want to give your love, but you are rejected by many. I am waiting for this love. Will you give it to Me? I will never reject you. I will not abandon you. I am your God. You were created to love and to be loved. I am Jesus. I am alive and I am waiting for your love.
  6. Messenger: To be wrapped in rapture, in the embrace of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, to be in that place where there is no wanting, to be in a place where there is total peace, to be wrapped by love itself, to be in the deepest chamber of the Heart of Christ, to be filled with everything, to be satisfied-this is what we will have for all eternity if we love and serve Him. His Heart is a little heaven on earth. He wants us to go to His Heart now and to share in this deep burning love that He has for us, but we are afraid. We do not want to get too close to our beloved Jesus, which keeps us at an arm’s length from Him. He is thirsting, thirsting, thirsting, for love from souls that He loves and how few souls come to Him and outpour their burning love back to Him. How He waits for that one precious soul to come, to be with Him as He is waiting in the tabernacle for that soul to come and to be before the tabernacle and say, "Jesus, I love You. I love You. I love You," to recognize Him as alive and present with His divine love. He wants us to be one in our hearts, but we are rigid. At the Mass, we are rigid. We are not connected. It is in the Shepherds of Christ movement, as more and more consecrate their hearts to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, that we will be united in one heart, that we will be united in the Hearts of love, the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, that our hearts will burn for love for each other. We are one body in Him. Look at how we are. We beep our horns at each other and say vile things and many curse the Lord. Are our hearts cold or are our hearts a burning furnace as Jesus wants us to be?
    Jesus: You are My soldiers of love. I am asking you this day to consecrate your hearts all through the day. To give yourself to Me. I am Jesus. I gave Myself for love of you.
  7. Messenger: See Jesus at the pillar and experience in all your senses this picture. Do you hear the blows as it hits the flesh of Jesus? Do you see Him clearly with your eyes? Do you see the light in the room. Do you hear the angry cries of the men? This is the Almighty God, bound at the pillar, in a human body, nailed to a cross. At any second, He could have released Himself, but because of His furnace of burning love within His most Sacred Heart, He gave Himself for love of us.
    Jesus: I am Jesus. I am giving Myself to you this day, but I am rejected and forgotten and ignored, treated with indifference, treated with hatred. I am treated as a dead object. I am calling you, I am alive, I am alive, I am alive and I am begging you, My beloved apostles, to spread the good news to this earth. Many souls will suffer the pains of hell forever and ever. And as you spread this consecration, hearts will be turned to hearts of love. I am alive and I live in you.
  8. Song: "Come Unto Me All Who Are Weary..."
    Jesus: The time is at hand for many souls this day will be condemned forever to the fires of hell. You can forget your brothers, but I will never forget you. I love you, My beloved ones. I loved you to My death on the cross.
  9. Messenger: Jesus wanted me to read this message. This is from May the 4th in the third Blue Book. Jesus: "Dear ones, I am calling you to love your brothers. I have loved you. Would you, dear ones, lay down your lives for your brothers? How are you loving this day? Are you following Christ in your actions? I am the Way, I am the Truth, I am the Life. You must constantly put the world aside and look to the Master for all your directions. I call you, My little ones, to holiness. I call you to pure hearts, hearts that are full of love and empty of hate and anger. I call you to guard your hearts and watch that they stay forever holy. You, My precious bride, I want your soul white. Do you criticize your dear brothers? I gave the last beat of My Heart and the last drop of My Blood for the soul you are displeased with. I would die for them this day. Will you not love them for Me? They are so precious to Me! Quit sizing up your brothers. You do such unloving things in your mind. You do not even know how unloving are your thoughts. You judge your brothers by their exteriors, by their education, by their money. You do not see the beautiful creation of God the Father. He created your brothers just perfectly and He loves His creation. Who are you to criticize His creation? Love your brothers when they are hurting. It is in your loving the hurting ones that they will see the reflection of Christ in you. Do not hold on to foolish things. One moment and your days on this earth have ended. All that remains is how you loved. Did you love God? Did you love your neighbor? Love is not selfish. It gives of itself. Its whole purpose is to draw the other closer to Jesus. Study the crucifix. It is such a comfort! I loved you so. I died for you. I would die for you alone this very day, little ones! Look at Me dying on the cross! The way to Me is to follow Me. Be Christ-like in your ways. You must study Me to know My ways. Do not give in to yourselves. My way is love. Will you be the reflection of the love of God within you? My way is the way of the cross. They persecuted Me, they hurt Me, they tore My flesh and spit on Me. They did this to Me for My love given to all! This world is not your end. You follow My ways and you move as you should toward your goal. I am Jesus, I am the Son of God. I love you so ardently. I died and shed My Blood, My beautiful Blood, for love of you. I await you this day, My little ones. I loved you so I remain with you in the Eucharist. I await, I long for you to come and share in our love. I am the tenderest of hearts. No man can be close to you as I. I love you so. I want to dwell and live within you. I want to fill you with all My love and radiate My love to your beloved brothers. I want to shine from your souls. Oh, little ones, take Me seriously. I am truly here, begging for you to live in My love. You are the light that will shine in this dark world. You will light up the darkest night with My love. The best gift you can give to this world is to busy yourself about your love affair with Me. I love you, My little ones. I love you and I want to share this love with you. Love your brothers. Do not let Satan talk in your heads and make them wrong and you right. Love them as I have loved you. Do not look at your brothers and size them up. See them with the eyes of God, the beautiful creations of the Father. Will you love My beloved ones for Me this day, or will you say "no" to My call? Love your brothers in darkness. They need your love. I am calling you to love them for Me this very day. They may scoff at you and persecute you, but you will plant a seed that I Myself will water and give sunlight to. Plant seeds of love. This is the most important seed you will plant, a seed of love. Watch it grow as I provide it with water and nourishment. I will shine on your brothers through you if you stay in My love. Be the light that shines on this dark world. They are crying out for the love of God. They are suffering. They need your love. Put yourselves aside. Die to yourselves. Live only for the love of God. If the world goes one way, you stay focused on My love. Do not follow the world. Follow the risen Christ! I love you so, little ones. I bring you new life. I fill your hearts with My love. Pray to the Holy Spirit for His gifts. Pray the Our Father. Let My Mother mother you as she mothered Me. She loved you so. She suffered so for love of you. She appears to bring you back to her beloved Son. Will you answer her call? She is calling you to put God first in your life. She is calling you to love, love of God, love of one another. Forgive your brothers. Empty your hearts of hate and anger and let go. Let all your anger go. Give Me your resentments and let Me heal your hearts. Forgiveness is the way to peace. Let go. Do not size up your brothers. Love them all. Pray for them. Unite in My love. Love is a miracle cure. Say you are sorry. Be gentle in your ways. Pray for your needs. I love you, little ones. I am with you this day. Will you answer the call and love for Me? I love you. I am your beloved Jesus. I would die this day just for you. I love you the same as I did the day I died. Turn to Me and give Me your life. I will care for you and love you. I am your Savior. I am Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God. Let Me live in your heart!"
  10. Hail Mary...

The Crowning with Thorns

  1. Messenger: See our beloved Jesus crowned with thorns. See the men as they pound the thorns into His skull.
  2. Did He call out? Did He say, "Why are you doing this to Me?" Do you hear Jesus? Does He scream as the men pound the thorns into His head? Jesus was silent. Think of today, all the sins of pride that are in the hearts of men, all the ugly thoughts within the heads of men. Jesus paid the price for the evilness in our hearts and the thoughts in our heads.
  3. It is in consecration that our hearts are turned to hearts of love. Mary told us at Fatima that we must give our hearts to her Heart and to the Heart of her Son if we want to have peace in the world.
  4. The devil is busy. He is going into the hearts and the minds of so many young children, people in all walks of life. It is our job. Jesus has given us this job: to spread this consecration. Mary, our Mother at Fatima, has asked us to go to the churches to try to set up Shepherds of Christ chapters in which people are praying in one mind and one heart for the priests, for the renewal of the Church and the world. She asks us to go to the schools, to take the rosary and the consecration, to teach little children to tell Jesus they love Him, to give their hearts to Jesus, to tell Mary that they love her and give Mary their hearts. How many things do we teach the children on this earth today with the computers, with the school, with everything that is so important? Yet we do not listen to the words of our Mother and teach them about the consecration. Mary appeared to me everyday for nine months asking that we spread this consecration to the children in the schools. This message is for you this day. She asked me to ask you to help to spread the consecration to the children in the schools.
  5. Song: "Jesus we love You, Mary we love you..."
  6. The Almighty God withstood the greatest torture for love of us. We do so many things that seem so important, but we do not listen to the words of our Mother, Mary, given at Fatima: that we will not have peace in this world until a sufficient number of people have consecrated their hearts to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, that we must pray the rosary and do the first Saturday devotion, and make reparation to Their Hearts. Satan has blocked this message. Satan will work in our hearts so that we will not want to carry out the messages that Jesus is delivering in this rosary. The message is that this is urgent. The time is at hand. Many, many, many souls are falling into the fires of hell. This is the good news: that we take the consecration to the churches, to the schools, and to the family. We will help in the salvation of millions of souls. The Shepherds of Christ Movement is His instrument for the renewal of the Church and the world. It is greatly centered in the completion of the Fatima message and these rosaries on the 13th are very important to the completion of the Fatima message. They will be taped and sent to all the chapter members. They will hear the message of Jesus and help spread this consecration to every corner of the earth.
  7. When priests’ hearts are consecrated to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary and celebrating the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the fire of His love will spread across this earth and many will love Jesus with such love. For it is through the hands of His holy priests that we are fed. The world is starving for the love of God. We must pray as never before for our priests. We must take the priestly newsletter to the priests and tell them about the prayer chapters, nothing about private revelation, just praying, praying the prayers in the Prayer Manual. Jesus’ head was crowned with thorns. He suffered so much. Can we answer this cry of our beloved Savior? Can we answer the cry of our Lady and take the consecrations to the churches, to the schools, and to the family?
  8. Jesus: I thirst, My beloved ones. I thirst for a drop of heartfelt love from many of My beloved priests. You must pray. It was the holy priests that comforted Me so during My Passion and I suffered so for those that do not show Me their love.
  9. I am alive. I am alive. I am alive. I am treated as a dead object. Will you spread My messages of love to this world. This is the mighty medicine for this world-My burning love.
  10. Hail Mary...

The Carrying of the Cross

  1. Messenger: Mary kept all these things in her Heart. Be in the Heart of Mary as we meditate on this mystery of the rosary. Be in the Heart of Mary. See through her eyes her beloved Son as He carries the cross on His back and as He falls to the ground. Be in the Heart of Mary and feel her suffering. Feel the sword pierce her Heart as she looks into His eyes and she sees His eyes covered with Blood and the wounds all over His Body. Be in the Heart of Mary for Mary appeared every day for fourteen months and delivered these messages to me that many souls are going to hell. It was an urgent cry. I do not know any other way than to tell you this message but it burns in my heart and my heart is pierced with a sword, for you speak and you speak and others do not hear, but you know, and the Almighty God has given these messages to you, and Mary has appeared over and over and over again. Will you help, will you help to take this message that They have given to me and to you into this world?
  2. For nine of the fourteen months, she focused on the importance of taking the rosary and the consecration to the children. Jesus is asking us to reach the children in the schools with this rosary and consecration. Jesus said to the women of Jerusalem, "Weep not for Me but for yourselves and your children." Mary said, "How hard are the hearts of so many children." How can we teach our children all these things and not teach them about the love of Jesus and Mary. Do we see Their eyes meet? Do we know the suffering that Jesus and Mary suffered? Do we care? And we know that we will suffer when we go into this world to spread this message, but the time is urgent and souls are being lost for all eternity.
  3. See Jesus and see His chin hit the ground. Look into His eyes. See His love. See the crown of thorns on His head piercing His most precious head and the Blood running down His face. See the wounds all over His Body. He showed us the way. He gave His all to His death on the cross. He wants us to love one another that we would be willing to give our lives for one another. We are not loving the way Jesus is telling us to love. We are His chosen ones, and He is revealing to us the mysteries of His Heart.
  4. He withstood torture, but the greatest agony was not the torture and the wounds to His Body. It was what He suffered to His Heart of pure, divine love for He loves, He loves most perfectly each and every soul.
  5. Consumed with love, He calls out, "I thirst. I thirst. I want your love." Do we go to Jesus and outpour our love to Him? Do we realize that He is longing for this love?
  6. Song: "I watched Him as a baby..."
    Mary is calling our name out in the dark night of this world. We are the lights that Jesus and Mary want to send into the darkness with our hearts lighted with His love. Will we answer this call? Will we spread this consecration to the far ends of the earth? Do we want peace? Then we must do what our heavenly Mother has told us at Fatima.
  7. Look at the wounds of our beloved Savior. How do we suffer? Do we complain?
  8. The world is not like us. The world is so different than us. We must be strong and pray for the grace to do whatever He asks us to do.
  9. Hail Mary...
  10. Hail Mary...

The Crucifixion

  1. Song: I Love You Jesus
  2. Messenger: See the withered Body of Jesus as He hung on the cross. See the nails in His hands and His feet, and think of the angry men that pounded these nails into His hands and His feet, the angry men that crowned our beloved Savior with a crown of thorns, the angry men that beat Him. Think of how Jesus is treated this day. Jesus suffered. He suffered the wounds to His Body, but His greatest sufferings were not the wounds to His Body but the wounds to His Sacred Heart, the Heart of most tender love.
  3. Think of how He is treated today, how He thirsts for heartfelt love. We are His chosen apostles in the Shepherds of Christ Movement. He has given to us a great grace that we will be ever closer to His Heart and to His Mother’s heart. He is thirsting for our love. See Jesus hanging on the cross. See how He suffered and how much anguish He is in. See the hurt in His Heart, and then think that the love that we give to Him this day is His comfort in all of that bitterness.
  4. I looked at the window at the Center where Jesus was tied to the pillar and I was crying, and I said to Jesus, "Jesus, what were You thinking of when they were beating You on Your back?" And He said to me, "I was thinking of you sitting in the pew and telling Me how you loved Me."
  5. The perfect match, the desire within us to be loved, to be loved by the Divine God. But we do not see. We do not comprehend. We go every place and look to try to satisfy this craving within us-the perfect match. And He is outpouring His divine love. He is giving Himself to us in the Eucharist. He is waiting for us in the tabernacle to come to give us an abundant sharing in His life-the perfect match. We long for love and He has the divine love that will satisfy us-the perfect match. Jesus is love. He is thirsting for our love. And we want to give ourselves, give ourselves. And we give ourselves here and many times we are rejected so we hold back and put up walls. When we give ourselves to Jesus, He accepts all our love. He wants us to give ourselves completely to Him.
  6. Song: I Love You Jesus
  7. Our little heaven on earth-the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Will we help to lead the strayed ones home, back to His Heart? He is giving to us this great grace in the Shepherds of Christ Movement to help us to carry this consecration to the world. He is feeding us with these messages, with these rosaries that we will be on-fire for love of Him and that we will go into these institutions and not be afraid and tell them about the love of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
  8. Stand beneath the cross of Jesus. Be in the Heart of Mary. Experience what Mary experienced in her Heart as she looked at her Son, as she saw Him covered with Blood, withered, and suffering, moments before His death. Be in the Heart of Mary as she cries out as she did to me over and over again about her lost children, that would go to the fires of hell, despite all that He did. And hear her pleading as I heard her pleading to please, please go into the world and to reach the children, her little children that are suffering and in pain. What do we think of when we look at the cross of Christ? Do we realize that we carry out His life, death, and resurrection in our lives, that He died, that He rose to give us a sharing in His life, that He ascended into heaven and He no longer walks this earth? He came to show us the way that we would be His shepherds this day that would lead many to His most Sacred Heart. We are His apostles. We must pray to the Holy Spirit for the fearlessness to go into this Godless world and to carry the message of His love, for this is the good news. The more we spread this consecration, the more hearts will be turned to hearts of love, and as Mary, our Mother, promised, there will be peace when a sufficient number have consecrated their hearts to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. There is not another way. We must do as she has told us to do.
  9. This is a major part of the completion of the Fatima message. We must take this mission to our hearts. We must give ourselves to Mary. It is in her pure and sinless Heart, despite our sinfulness, that she will take us deeply into the Heart of Christ and we will be one in Him, that He will operate through us and touch many of the souls in this world today that are hurting and in pain. This is a call from our beloved Savior. If you continue to focus on me, you will miss the message. This has been my fate for all the years, over five, that I have received these messages. The focus is on me, the words, and the English, and we miss the message. This is the message of Mary at Fatima that we must go into the world, carry the consecration into this world, pray the rosary, we must observe the first Saturday devotion, and we must make reparation to Their Hearts.
  10. Jesus: I love you. I love you. I love you. To My death on the cross, I gave Myself to you. I give Myself to you today. This is My Body that you receive in the Eucharist. This is My Blood. Will you give yourself to Me? I will never abandon you. I will give you My Divine love. You will never be alone, My beloved one. I am with you forever and ever and ever. Will you help Me? Will you help spread My love to the hurting world. Will you take the messages that I have given in the Blue Books to this world and tell them that each and every word is My message of love that I give to them? These are rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. This rosary I have given as a tool to help to teach you so that you will be ever joined closer to My Heart. I love you. I love you. I love you. I am Jesus, your beloved Savior.

  

  

FEBRUARY 13, 1997
THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES

This rosary was received on Thursday, February 13th, 1997 at an International Shepherds of Christ Associates Meeting at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center. The rosary was led by Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J., spiritual director of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. The meditations and messages were given to Rita Ring during the rosary. This rosary was received live and transcribed from the recording. This live recording can be obtained by writing Shepherds of Christ Publications. All of these meditations have been discerned by Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J.

The Agony in the Garden

  1. Jesus: I have promised to be with you in a special way, My beloved ones. I am Jesus. I am with you this day, this special time to deliver to you messages that will help to bring about the completion of the Fatima messages. Mary appeared at Fatima from May the 13th until October the 13th of 1917. I am Jesus. Beginning October the 13th of 1996, the Fatima message will unfold through these messages that I deliver to you on the 13th. I am Jesus. These are My messages that I am giving to you, My apostles, that I have called here, to help bring about the completion of the Fatima message. My Heart will reign, My Sacred Heart will reign in the hearts of men and from the tabernacle. Many people will love, love God with the deepest burning love. You, My beloved ones, I have called you to come this day to be My apostles to go into the world, to carry out My burning love to the souls that are suffering and in pain. Will you answer this call? You are here because I have called you. You are the apostles. You are the messengers. I am giving to you the messages to help bring about the reign of My Sacred Heart. I am Jesus. I have spoken. My Father has spoken from this church. He has delivered to you two messages that you must read in the Apostles’ Manual. The Apostles’ Manual is given to you to study that you will know what I am asking. I am asking you to go out and to carry My love letters to this world. It is through these love letters that many will know My burning love. Men will love God in a way that they have not loved God before, with a deep, burning love. It is through these letters they will know the most intimate secrets of My Heart. I love you with such love, My beloved ones. Open your heart now and listen to the messages that I deliver to you, My apostles.
  2. Messenger: Jesus has asked that I read the following message from the third Blue Book on June the 12th, 1994 entitled "The Carpenter". 
    Jesus: "You are he who goes to a carpenter to learn to make a cabinet. You know nothing. You do not have any idea of what you are to do. The carpenter knows exactly. He has a procedure whereby his plan will be accomplished. Every detail must be observed. He is the Master. You do not have the talent. You need talent to do woodwork. If you were given the talent and the directions, you could accomplish this task with such beauty. I am the carpenter. You are he who needs to be taught. You lack the talent. You need the gifts of the Spirit to accomplish My task! You come to Me in total ignorance. You are open, the Spirit fills you with the gifts. You have everything you need to do My work. The Father created you to accomplish His tasks. You are perfect. You must come open. You must know the plan. The plan is His will for you. If you do not follow the plan, the cabinet will not be built correctly. I am the Master. I guide you. I love you. I give you all you need. I walk you through every move. If you try on your own, you have a problem. You know not the way to build cabinets. You know not the way to Me on your own. You must come to Me to be taught. To go it alone is to your own detriment. Oh, little one, it is so simple. You, and your will, want to work your own plans. You know not how to do it. Only I can teach you what you need to know. Oh, please come to Me. I have all you need. The Spirit fills you with the gifts to know, love and serve God. To go it alone is like trying to build the cabinet with no knowledge of woodworking. Oh, little ones, I love you. Come to Me. Let Me teach you. The will of the Father is the happiness of your life. I am Jesus Christ, Son of God. I am God. I, God, long to be with you and to teach you. Go not off on your own. Come to Me. I love you so!"1
  3. Song: "Oh the rosary, the rosary..."
  4. Messenger: And the Father told me on January the 5th of 1995 that the Father’s plan will unfold despite all the willfulness of all those involved. He gave to us two messages in January of 1997, the messages from the Father. Mary appeared every day for fourteen months and she gave messages and she cried out. People did not listen to the pleadings of their Mother. Jesus has given to us these messages to bring about the reign of His Sacred Heart. Mary appeared on the 5th of every month for two years and four months. And Jesus on the 5th of December appeared instead of Mary, dying on the cross with His mouth moving. And He said that people were not hearing Him. Then He began to deliver very strong messages starting December the 19th. I received these strong messages. Every night He would wake me and give me very strong messages. In January the Father began to speak, on the 5th of the month neither Jesus nor Mary appeared. On the 5th of February, I was sick and could not go to the rosary and receive this message. The messages in the Apostles’ Manual, these are His messages for you. For in these live rosaries, Jesus is delivering the messages to help bring about the completion of the Fatima message. He speaks in the message and He says that when you listen to the live tapes in a candlelight setting, when you pray the rosary fervently that He will be there and His Mother will be there in a special way and grant to you special graces. And all those present will receive special graces to be drawn ever closer to His Heart and the Heart of His Mother. They appeared, both Jesus and Mary, over and over again. Now the Father has spoken. He is calling you the apostles to go out to carry the tapes and the live rosaries to your individual chapters, not in the churches but in private homes, in private settings where you can play these live rosaries where the people there can participate in the rosary and Jesus and Mary will be there with you. They will give you special graces to draw you ever closer to Their Hearts. And you will receive the graces He says that He has given when He was there and delivered the rosaries. This is His calling. These rosaries and messages will spread throughout the world and people will know the special grace when they pray this rosary in candlelight as Mary has requested. You are the apostles. You will carry Their messages to the far ends of the earth. And the world will know the fire of His love. For this is a new era, it is a new way. It will be a new earth in which men will love God with this great intimacy as never before and He is revealing in these messages, the intimate secrets into His Heart. He is longing for our love. Look at Him now in the tabernacle. See Jesus. Know that He is with us. Hear Him crying out to you, "Oh, come to Me and tell Me of your love. I am a Person and I am longing for you to tell Me how much you love Me. I am Jesus." This will be the era of great love. When we love one another as the Father intended and we love God with our whole hearts, our whole souls, and our whole beings and there will not be bumping of heads on this earth, but the Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign in all hearts and the Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign from His throne, the tabernacle, in all churches. And the earth will be lighted with the burning fire of His love.
  5. And so how do we feel now? Are we persecuted? As Father said in his homily, we are suffering. But there will be the new life and there will be this new earth and we will fervently love God with the deepest love. See Jesus in the garden. I know how it has felt many times to hear Jesus call out from the tabernacle, "Come to Me. I long for that soul that loves Me so dearly, for that soul that comes to Me and just outpours their love to Me." See Jesus in the garden and see the sweat come from His brow on the ground. For His greatest agony was not the agony of knowing that He would suffer, of knowing the wounds, His greatest agony was for the neglect, for the indifference, for the hatred, for what is inside of the hearts of men when He is love and He longs for love and He wants us to love one another. The greatest agony was the agony within His most Sacred Heart filled with divine love.
  6. Song: "I come to you with greatest love..."
    Jesus: You are My apostles that I am calling to go into this world. And I am giving to you a heart filled with love. As you come to Me, as you come and you adore the Almighty God and you pray before the tabernacle, I outpour to you the greatest grace and you will carry My love into this world. Many will know the burning fire of My love through you.
  7. Messenger: Jesus wants intimacy with us. He wants communication with us. He gave a special message that is in the front of the book. The new messages are in the front of the book. Jesus wants this: for ten minutes every day, He wants you to take a notebook, He said a red notebook for the fire of His love, and to write in that notebook every day how you feel in your heart about your beloved Jesus. In this ten minutes that you write to Him, you will communicate to Him the desires in your heart, the troubles in your heart, the feelings that you have in your heart to the Almighty God, our Divine Lover. We will become intimate with Him as we write to Him in this love letter. And after the ten minutes of writing to Him, telling Him whatever is in our hearts, if it is love, if it is joy, we are sharing with Him intimately the depth of our heart. And then He has requested that you open the Blue Book messages which are His love letters to you and for ten minutes read love letters from Him. Read each word as if Jesus is speaking to you and hear His words of love as He outpours them to you. And after this for the following ten minutes to spend this time conversing with Jesus, being intimate with Jesus, sharing whatever is in your heart with His Heart. This tool that He has given to us will increase our intimacy with Him. How can we be intimate with Jesus if we do not really share the desires that are deep in our heart with Him? This is His tool. These are His love letters that He writes to you.
  8. Oh, my beloved Jesus, I love You so much. How many times I have come to this tabernacle and I have sat before the tabernacle and I felt Your presence, the King on His throne, the Almighty God. And I have cried and cried and I have heard You call out to me and say, "I long for the soul that comes to Me and tells Me how much they love Me. I long for that soul. I want to hear the words of love from your lips. I want love from you. Bring Me souls. Bring Me souls for I long and I thirst for the precious souls that I love, that I gave My life for, that I suffered for, that I sweat Blood for. I am God. I am love. And I long for love from My beloved souls, but how few come to Me and tell Me how they love Me."
  9. And so I know this Person, this Person, a Divine Person, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, that came and gave Himself for love of me and gives Himself to me every day in the Eucharist. He comes and He gives Himself to me. And I write these letters to Him and He becomes more and more alive in my heart, as I read the messages that He has delivered to me. These are His messages to bring about the reign of His Sacred Heart, where there will be such intimacy between God and man as there has never been before in the past. These are His letters given to bring about the completion of the Fatima message as Mary promised. The Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign and the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph. Mary appeared at Fatima. She told us her peace plan. Jesus gives to us this day the most intimate secrets into the love in His Heart.
  10. Mary appeared over and over and over again. She appeared at Fatima. She appeared here in the Cincinnati area and her call was to bring in the children, the children of light, that they would consecrate their hearts to her and that she would then take them to the Heart of her Son. The plan was to bring the children to her Heart and then to lead them to these messages that would bring about the reign of His Sacred Heart. For they are Jesus’ love letters, love letters that will help us to love Him with the greatest intimacy. But Satan blocked this plan. Mary called and the people came and Satan was strong for he did not want the reign of the Sacred Heart to come. So he blocked the messages that would lead people deeply into the Heart of Jesus. The Father has assured me and in these messages that His plan will unfold despite all of the tactics of Satan and anyone to try to block these messages. These are great revelations that He has given to us, that we will know Him in a most intimate way as we have never known God before.

The Scourging at the Pillar

  1. Messenger: And so we must be protected against the wiles of the evil one for he aims to stop all messages that will take men deeply into the Heart of Christ. Mary called and the children came. And it is in consecrating our hearts to Mary that we will be able to go deeply into the Heart of Christ.
  2. I sat in this chapel and received so many messages. There are so many stories given from the Father, from Jesus, and from Mary, that They have given to us to tell us about the Father’s plan. I remember sitting in this chapel and I looked at the window where Jesus was being whipped at the pillar and I said to Jesus, I said, "Jesus, what were You thinking when You were being beaten?" And He said, "I was thinking of you sitting in the pew and telling Me of your love." For Jesus suffered such bitter persecution, such bitter wounds, but the love that we give to Him was sweetness during His bitter Passion. He was beaten, His flesh was torn, His Heart was broken, for He knew all the souls that would neglect Him, hate Him, and would be condemned to hell despite all that He did. But He also knew the great love that we give to Him and it was such sweetness to His Heart as He suffered during His Passion.
  3. And so the plan of the Father unfolds and He said how important this chapel is to His plan. We look at the mysteries of the rosary in the windows from the beginning, from the Annunciation all the way to when Mary is crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth. We walk these mysteries in the lives of Jesus and Mary and Their lives live in us as we meditate on the mysteries of the rosary and as we read these meditations that He has given to us. It is in these meditations that His life lives in us in a special way. He is in my heart, and my soul, and my whole being from these revelations. This is what He wants. He wants to be so one with us that He lives in us, that every word of Scripture vibrates within us as we hear the words. We know Him and we love Him in each word in scripture, in each word in the Mass. We cry. We fall to our faces. We worship, we adore the Almighty God. If we could see at this very moment, if we could see with eyes unveiled, we could not even see because of the immensity of the power of the Almighty God. He is here. God. And He is on His throne in this room and He is longing for us to tell Him of our great love for Him. Oh, Jesus, how dearly I love You. And the great gift that we are here and that God is in this room with us. Who are we that the Almighty God is here in this room with us? Oh, what a gift He has given to us. I want to cherish and love Him with all my heart for He is all my heart craves. God is here.
  4. There is bitterness and there is sweetness. There is bitterness and there is sweetness. There was a time when I prayed in this chapel for years and then I was told to pray in a different place and there was bitterness. As I sat in the pew, I felt such sorrow within my heart because I had all these special rendezvous with my beautiful Jesus and Mary in this chapel, times that I met Him most intimately and I loved Him. And I did not want to leave and I went and prayed elsewhere. And He gave to me greater intimacies with Him. We are sitting here in the pew this day. We do not know what the future will hold. We only know that the Father’s plan will unfold and that men will love God with greater and greater love. Jesus is here in the tabernacle with us today, the Almighty God. Do we treasure this within our hearts? For tomorrow we may not have this great gift in the availability that we have it today. We do not know. Think of the great gifts that God has given to us in the Mass and in the Eucharist and how He is treated. I was sick and I could not go to Mass and I am writing the Mass Book. And in that book I recalled the most intimate times all through the Mass when I was so close to Jesus and He spoke to me and He told me of the great intimacy that He wants with us and that the Mass is the greatest love affair that there is, when He gives Himself to us and we give ourselves to Him. This is what the Mass is. It’s a great love affair with Jesus. And so I could not go to Mass for a week and it was so hard as it was when I could not pray in this chapel for a while. It was hard but He was there in another tabernacle and He outpoured His great gifts. God is in this room at this moment in all His might and divinity. God is present. What a great gift He gives to us. He is outpouring His grace to us at this moment. We are being saturated with His divine life. He is outpouring His love. He wants us to open our hearts and to tell Him, "Oh, Jesus, I love You." He is a Person and He is waiting for an intimate love. He is revealing to us the secrets of His Heart that we will more fervently love Him than any people before in history. He wants us to love Him, to love Him now.
  5. On March the 13th, I remember this as if it happened yesterday, in 1994, Jesus called out from the tabernacle. This was at St. Phillips and it was so strong. He says, "I died for you, sweet one." This is from the Blue Book Two, "I allow you to suffer. This is suffering. You are given this to know how I suffered. You I only give such little things. I suffered, sweet one. I suffered, bloodied, bruised and beaten. Blood rolled down My cheeks. My head was pierced with sharp thorns. They spat on Me. They whipped Me. They beat Me on My head, My precious head. They hit Me on My thorns and the pain was so intense--the piercing thorns! I was slapped hard by these senseless ones. Oh, such evil in the hearts of those who beat Me, the Son of God! My whole Body ached from head to toe. I suffered so, My child. You will never know how I suffered for love of you. I am God and I loved all My precious ones to My death--and they ignore Me! Oh, how I suffer from this wounded Heart. They will never know what love I have to give them. They will never know how I, God, love them. They are so busy with their worldly lives!" And He was so emotional here, I cried and my insides felt like I was torn within from what He hollered at me and it was this, "You must tell them how I wait for them. I wait. I want them to come and I will give them such love! Tell them, Rita, tell them! Your discontent is from what emotions I give you and you keep them inside. I want all to know Me and My love. I am crying out to you, little one. Tell them, tell them. Do not waste any time. I am crying out for you to spread this message. I want you to tell all of My love and how I am waiting. Emotion! Emotion! I am crying out to you in your heart! I long for their love. I died for them. How do I make them know if you, to whom I speak, hold back? I want you to get the messages out, child. I loved all My beloved ones to My death."2
  6. Song: "I come to you with greatest love..."
  7. Jesus: And so, My soldiers of love, I call you this day to be the soldiers that will go into the dark night and will spread My love to My beloved ones. I give to you the letters of My love. I give to you this special gift, the gift of knowing Me in the most intimate way. You must come to Me everyday. You must spend an hour with Me everyday, if you can, before the tabernacle for it is there that I give you a great sharing in My life. But if you cannot, you must spend an hour alone with Me in your home every day. In this hour I will tell you of My intimate love for you. Write to Me your letter. Read My letters to you. Spend this hour alone with Me and I will sort out in your mind all of the confusion. I will give you secrets into My Heart. I will call you to the deepest chamber of My Heart and I will give you great love. I am Jesus. You are My lovers that will carry My love to the world today. You must put aside all of the bitterness and hatred in your heart for a heart that is filled with anger cannot unite to My Heart. My way is love. You are My apostles of love. You must be loving in your hearts.
  8. Messenger: Look at Jesus tied to the pillar. See Him with the sores all over His Body and His flesh is torn. Do you see Jesus there. This is how He loved us. He loved even those men that beat Him. My beloved Jesus, I know how it is today and how hard it is to love. I beg You for the grace that my heart may be more and more like Yours for I fall and I want to love like You. It is only through Your grace that I can be better.
  9. Jesus: I am giving to you great grace in the Shepherds of Christ Movement to come ever closer to My Heart. I am asking you to spread the chapters to this world. I am asking you to pray the prayers, to consecrate your hearts all through the day, to say the Holy Spirit prayer and the consecration prayers that you will be joined in one mind and one heart for you are My shepherds that will go into the darkness and will help unite all of the people with the fire of My love.
  10. Hail Mary...

The Crowning With Thorns

  1. Messenger: And the King will reign on His throne. All men will love God with a burning love. This great era will come soon. He is giving to us great grace at this moment that we will know Him more intimately, that we will be able to help carry out what the Father is asking us to do to bring about the reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of Mary’s Immaculate Heart.
  2. So Mary appeared at Fatima and she told us what we must do. We must carry the consecration into this world, to the church, to the family, to the school. It is in giving our hearts to Mary that we become children of light, that the Holy Spirit works within our hearts to make us more and more like Jesus. And that when we go to the Heart of Mary in her pure and Immaculate Heart, we can then go into the Heart of Christ and unite to Him.
  3. There will be this great era in which men will do what the Father wills them to do. There will be great love among men. We will live as the Father intended us to live. It is in the Shepherds of Christ Movement that He is calling us to be one in His Heart. And as we are one in His Heart and as we spread the consecrations, we lead the strayed ones home to His Heart.
  4. See the Heart of Jesus surrounded by a crown of thorns. See His head pierced with a crown of thorns. He is the King. He is the King of heaven and earth. He does not wear a crown of jewels but He wears a crown of thorns for He longs for love. He gave Himself for love of us. It is up to us to give ourselves to Him in love and to give ourselves to one another in love. His Heart is a heart of love. He wants us to be one with each other and to be one in Him.
  5. And so how is it that I can say, "I can love you, but not love you. And I can love you, and not love you" when the Heart of Jesus loves all souls. He gave His life for each and every soul. If I am divided in my heart toward any person, I am dividing myself from Jesus, for I will not be able to unite in the deepest union with Him when there is anger and bitterness and hatred in my heart. So we are hurting ourselves when we are hating and feeling angry in our hearts towards others. His Heart is pure, His Heart is love. He gave Himself for each and every soul. He loved those that crowned Him with thorns, that tore His flesh. He walked with the wounds wide open on His Body and He loved those men. He did not shout at them. He was not arrogant. He walked and He gave Himself for love of each and every soul.
  6. Jesus: You are My soldiers of love. I am calling you to be the soldiers that will help bring about this great era.
  7. Hail Mary...
  8. Messenger: And the soldiers walked across the earth. And you could tell that they were soldiers for Christ for they loved one another, they lived in harmony, they saw the problem, and they worked together to figure out the problem according to the Father’s will for His honor and glory. The Kingdom of God is at hand. We are the people that He is calling to help bring about this great era in which the King will reign on His throne. But we cannot be divided with each other. We must love and do the Father’s will.
  9. Jesus: I give to you these messages, My beloved ones, to bring about the reign of My Heart. They are the directions that I am giving to you. You will be My lights that will shine in the darkness. But you must surrender. You must do as the Father is asking you to do. You must come each day and spend this hour alone with Me.
  10. Messenger: Jesus gave to me a message last week and He said that the bombs would fly around us. And He said only those that spent this hour would be the ones that would survive. For Satan is trying to stop us. He knows that we have been called, the apostles, to help bring about this era. We cannot do it on our own. It only is in holiness that we can do this. It is only by God’s might that we can do this. If we do not spend the hour alone with God every day, we will have a problem. So Jesus gave to us this special tool of writing these letters so that we will be more intimate with Him. In this time we will share the most intimate desires of our heart with Jesus. This is what He wants, intimacy with us.

The Carrying of the Cross

  1. Messenger: Let us be there next to Mary as she walks and she sees her Son with a cross on His back. She sees Him covered with Blood. He is not clothed in a golden robe. He is clothed in a cloak of dried Blood and the cross bears heavy on His back. And they poke at Him and they laugh at Him and they scorn Him. Think of how we are and how we worry about what other people think of us. How we worry about how they are looking at us, what we are wearing. Was Jesus thinking about what people were thinking of Him when He walked with a cross on His back?
  2. His Heart was consumed with the greatest divine love. He was filled with such love for men. His greatest agony was not the poking, not the bleeding, not the torn flesh but His greatest agony was the rejection. Think of how it is in your life. Think of how it is when you feel rejected and you do not feel loved. How painful that is. Think of Jesus carrying the weight of the sins of men on His back, loving them with the most perfect love, and seeing before His eyes all of the men that would hate Him and ignore Him and not even have a thought of Him, that would go to the Holy Eucharist, that would come to the church and not even realize that He is there. Think of the people how many times they walk in front of the tabernacle and they do not even genuflect and recognize the Almighty God, the King of all kings, truly present. God, God is there as He is here.
    Song: "In this very room there’s quite enough love for one like me..."
    Messenger:     Jesus, Lord Jesus, is in this very room. How are our hearts for our King? Is the King of all kings reigning in our hearts? Or are there places in our hearts where there are debris and bitterness where we love some and we hate others? How are our hearts? Oh, Jesus, King of all kings, give to us the grace to be more like You.
  3. I love Jesus so much and I want to be so one with Him, but it is so hard. I know that I must pray more and more. And He is showing to me more and more every day that it is in this hour that I spend alone with Him that this is the true treasure after the Mass and the Holy Eucharist, that this is the treasure. That Satan attacks and he comes as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, if I do not have this intimate time with Him everyday. Just as Jesus said, He said "If we do not spend time alone with Him that the devil will tear us to shreds because of the great mission that God has called us to in the Shepherds of Christ Movement." The plan of the Father will unfold. And it will unfold around us for this is Jesus’ plan for the renewal of the Church and the world. You have been called, an apostle. I have been called, an apostle, and I must spend this time alone with Him every day or Satan will cause us to act in ways that are not like God.
  4. Hail Mary...
  5. "He put another parable before them, ‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. While everybody was asleep his enemy came, sowed darnel all among the wheat, and made off. When the new wheat sprouted and ripened, then the darnel appeared as well. The owner’s laborers went to him and said, "Sir, was it not good seed that you sowed in your field? If so, where does the darnel come from?" He said to them, "Some enemy has done this." And the laborers said, "Do you want us to go and weed it out?" But he said, "No, because when you weed out the darnel you might pull up the wheat with it. Let them both grow till the harvest; and at harvest time I shall say to the reapers: First collect the darnel and tie it in bundles to be burnt, then gather the wheat into my barn." ’ " (Matt. 13: 24-30)3
  6. Messenger: The Father gave me a very strong message in this chapel and He said that I should read the accounts of Noah. I have not been taught greatly in the Scriptures. I only know what Jesus has taught me and what I have read. I went and read the account of Noah and someone that was typing the rosary said, "Exactly what you said was in Matthew." And so I read this from Matthew 24:37-44. It says: "As it was in Noah’s day, so will it be when the Son of man comes. For in those days before the Flood people were eating, drinking, taking wives, taking husbands, right up to the day Noah went into the ark, and they suspected nothing till the Flood came and swept them all away. This is what it will be like when the Son of man comes. Then of two men in the fields, one is taken, one is left; of two women grinding at the mill, one is taken, one is left. So stay awake, because you do not know the day when your master is coming. You may be quite sure of this, that if the householder had known at what time of the night the burglar would come, he would have stayed awake and would not have allowed anyone to break through the wall of his house. Therefore, you too must stand ready because the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect."4
  7. And Mary said, "The time is nigh that the children of light walk next to the children of darkness." And she called and she called and she called and men in their willfulness ignored her call. How do we think that the Father expected us to respond to the calling of our heavenly Mother. We are to obey our earthly mother but look at how we have disobeyed our heavenly Mother at Fatima.
  8. She appeared over and over and over again and she called to the children of light to come to her Heart. And it was there that she would take them to these messages to lead men deeply into the Heart of her Son. But Satan blocked these messages. Mary appears now as she did not appear before. She appears on the building in Florida. On December the 19th, I got a very strong message from Jesus and Mary both of which are in the Apostles’ Manual. And Mary said, "I appear on a bank in Florida, my children, because you have made money your god." She said, "I do not appear as I once did." And then she told me to spread the tape, Mary’s Message, which I was told to make on December the 12th. Mary appears on a building in Florida. She wants to lead men to these messages given by her Son that will help bring about the reign of His Sacred Heart.
  9. The time is nigh.
  10. The more that we spread the consecration, the more souls will be turned to children of light. Mary has told us at Fatima what we must do. Jesus is giving to us these messages to help bring about the completion of the Fatima message in which His Heart will reign and her Heart will triumph.

Jesus Dies on the Cross

  1. Messenger: In John 16: 23-28, it says, "When that day comes, you will not ask me any questions. In all truth I tell you, anything you ask from the Father he will grant in my name. Until now you have not asked anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and so your joy will be complete. I have been telling you these things in veiled language. The hour is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in veiled language but tell you about the Father in plain words. When that day comes you will ask in my name; and I do not say that I shall pray to the Father for you, because the Father himself loves you for loving me, and believing that I came from God. I came from the Father and have come into the world and now I am leaving the world to go to the Father."5
  2. Jesus has told me that He is giving His teachings to us in plain talk. He has given twenty books of messages since the end of 1993. As we read these messages we know Him more and more and He lives within our hearts. Every word in the Scriptures penetrates our hearts as a two-edged sword. The more that I read these messages, the more that every word comes alive to me in the Scriptures and in the Mass. He is unveiling the Scriptures in these messages and He is writing the messages of His love on our hearts in plain talk.
  3. Jesus appeared on December the 5th hanging on the cross for twenty minutes and His mouth moved and moved and moved and moved. And He looked as a man hanging on the cross dying and it was horrifying, after seeing Mary appear every single month for over two years and then seeing Jesus instead of Mary when I went there. This is from the Mass Book: "God 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?"
  4. I saw Jesus on the cross on December the 5th and He looked as a dying man on the cross. His Body was that of a live Man. And in all His agony, I saw His mouth move and move and move. For He has spoken over and over and over again of His love and we do not hear. He is asking you today to help to spread His letters of love into this world. It is through these revelations that He has given that He will greatly bring about the reign of His Sacred Heart. For men will intimately love God in a way that they have not loved God before. He has opened Himself up wide and revealed the deepest secrets into His most intimate love. And we have not treated this great gift with the gratitude that we should. He wants us to take these letters and to spread them to the souls that are hurting and in pain, that they will read His words of love and that He will reign as King in their hearts.
  5. And what is the mighty medicine for the sick world, for the world that is hurting, that longs for love, that has suffered so many abuses? What is the mighty medicine? It is the burning love of Jesus Christ. It must be in the hearts of men. As men give themselves in consecration to the Heart of Mary and to the Heart of Jesus, the Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign in their hearts and the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph.
  6. There is a Man hanging on the cross and He does not have to speak. If we study Him, we will see His undying, everlasting love.
  7. Jesus: I have delivered to you this day this rosary, My beloved ones. I want your love. I want you to come to My Heart. I want you to give Me your heart, all through the day to tell Me, "Oh, Jesus, how I love You and I give myself to You." I will be King and Center of your heart when you come to Me and you spend time with Me after you have received Holy Communion, when you come to Me and you spend time before the tabernacle, when you spend intimate moments with Me in your room at home. I want intimacy with you. It takes time to be intimate. I am Jesus. I am the Almighty God. I have all that you need. You must come to Me and I will heal your wounds, I will love you and I will give you My divine love.
  8. Messenger: And how do we feel when we go to the tabernacle? How do we feel when we go to the tabernacle or when we spend time alone with Him? He gives us great gifts, gifts of peace and joy in our hearts. There is not another way. We must spend this time alone with Him or as He said in the message the bombs are going to fly around us. And if we do not have this intimate time with Him, Satan will tear us to shreds.
  9. We give our hearts to Mary and she takes us into the deepest chambers of the Heart of her Son.
  10. There is a Man hanging on the cross. He gave Himself for love of us. He did not holler and scream. In His last dying words He gave us His Mother. We must give ourselves to our Mother Mary and give ourselves to Him.
    Jesus: I am Jesus, My beloved ones. This is the message that I give to you on the 13th of February to help with the completion of the Fatima message. I am asking you to carry these rosaries and messages to the far corners of the earth for I give to you My love letters to bring about the reign of My Sacred Heart. You are the apostles that will help bring about the reign of the Sacred Heart. You are the messengers. I have called you. I have chosen you. You must do the Father’s will. I am giving to you the directions in these messages that are needed to help bring about the reign of My Sacred Heart. The Shepherds of Christ Movement is major in bringing about the renewal of the Church and the world. You have been called to this movement. Satan will try to lead you astray by doing other good works. He will cause division in your hearts. You must know that I, Jesus Christ, am calling you this day. You are a major part of the completion of the Fatima message. You are part of the Father’s plan. You have been called to this chapel and great miracles will happen in your heart this day if you open your heart to Me. I love you. I am waiting for your most intimate love.

Notes:

1. Rita Ring, God’s Blue Book Vol. 3, Shepherds of Christ Publications p. 122.

2. Rita Ring, God’s Blue Book Vol. 2, Shepherds of Christ Publications p. 159.

3. Scripture quotations are taken from The New Jerusalem Bible, Catholic Edition, Doubleday and Co.

4. Scripture quotations are taken from The New Jerusalem Bible, Catholic Edition, Doubleday and Co.

5. Scripture quotations are taken from The New Jerusalem Bible, Catholic Edition, Doubleday and Co."

  

    

ROSARY MEDITATIONS
AT A SHEPHERDS OF CHRIST MEETING
JULY 11,1995
THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES

The Agony in the Garden

  1. Jesus: My dear ones, Satan is pressing hard on many of My beloved souls. Sufferings are about to befall this earth. You must hold tight to My Heart for he aims to stop you. You are My beloved soldiers that I am sending into this world to carry forth My love. Hold tight, My dear ones. I am giving you abundant graces for all the trials you are facing daily. I am attentive to your every need, minute by minute, second by second. I am guarding and watching you. You must come to My Heart through the Heart of My beloved Mother. Nestle ever so close to the Heart of My Mother, My dear ones. Come into her loving arms and let her caress you and lead you gently into My Heart, burning for love of you.

    I am Jesus. Do not fear. Do not feel pressed on by Satan. Come to Me and meditate on My passion. It is in realizing My intense love for you that you will have peace and joy in your life and know My constant presence with you. I am Jesus, I am with you. I am depending on you to go into this world and be strong soldiers. Hold tight to My hand, My beloved ones. Focus on My love for you.
  2. Jesus: When you think that nothing else can go wrong, My dear ones, and something else goes wrong, you are being tried. For the days ahead will be dark and hard. Realize that these are gifts that are helping you to grow in holiness and in virtue.
  3. Jesus: I mold you into special gems, My dear ones, My beloved ones, My precious ones. I long for your love.

    I long for a heart that is set so deeply in love of Me! Will you answer My call to unite? Be a heart that is burning with deep love for God. You are so precious to Me! A heart filled with love is so dear to Me and comforts My aching Heart!

    My dear ones, so many of My beloved ones treat Me with such indifference and ingratitude. How My Heart is warmed by your burning love. Will you come to Me? Will you join in deepest love with My burning Heart, on fire for love of you.
  4. Jesus: Know that, as you go each day, as you suffer all through the day with different trials, different obstacles that are put in your path, I am with you as you struggle. See Me as I knelt in the garden. I suffered so for the ingratitude of all of the souls that I loved with deepest love, souls who would reject Me. Many times you are faced with rejection by those that you love. My dear ones, when you are faced with sufferings and crosses, come to Me. Meditate on My life. Focus on the sufferings in My life and how they parallel your life. You will grow more deeply in your life with Me.
  5. R. Jesus knelt in the garden and, in His divine knowing, He knew all of the souls from all time, all of their sin, all of the vileness in the hearts of men. He also knew all of the acts of love, the burning love of His precious souls who come and spend time with Him. This love was sweetness during His bitter passion.
  6. Jesus: Many in the world this day are blind and do not see. My dear ones, because you do not see with your earthly eyes, do not think that I am far. I am with you, ever by your side, guarding and protecting you. The Father is watching you. Your Mother is by your side. Let the Spirit live within your being and operate you as you go about your lives. Know the presence of the Almighty God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, within you. Go inside of yourself and feel the presence of God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
  7. Jesus: You will be pressed on by Satan, through much mental torment and anguish, and people that you love, those closest to you that seem to hurt you. I am allowing this, My dear ones, so that you may be strengthened for the days ahead. You are My soldiers. I am testing you. I am sending you out as shining stars in the darkest night. I am Jesus. I love you with the deepest love. Come to My Heart and I will bathe you in a bath of My precious love.
  8. Jesus: The heart and its ways! Many have closed their hearts and turned cold. They operate with a gaze that is hard and focused. Open wide your hearts. Let your hearts be soft and supple.

    Let your heart be the light of your body and the life of your soul. I am filling your heart with My life. Be open and remove all of the blockages to your heart. Let me penetrate your heart and fill you with vibrant divine love. I am Jesus. You are My light that will shine in the darkest night.
  9. Jesus: My dear ones, I want you to meditate on My sufferings. This will strengthen you in your sufferings. In all your sufferings, stay rooted in Me. You will experience deeper and deeper life in Me. Your days are a constant suffering and rising to new life. Accept all that is given to you and focus on Me. Every moment I want to be so close to you! I want your thought to be focused on Me every moment of your day, a constant awareness of the presence of God. You will have peace and joy in your hearts even in times of struggle. I am Jesus, your beloved Savior. I came to this earth to save you from your sins.
  10. Jesus: My Mother nurses you with the milk of salvation. Let go and be bathed in the love of Our Two Hearts. As I suffered in the Garden, I was comforted by your acts of love this day. Comfort My aching Heart, come and outpour your love, for I am waiting and longing and thirsting to hear the words of your love from your lips. Will you come, My beloved? I am the bridegroom of your soul, waiting for your precious soul to unite with Me. Will you come? Will you unite for our wedding? I am Jesus Christ and I am waiting for you.

The Scourging at the Pillar

  1. R. It is through the Body and Blood of Jesus that we are saved. Think of the price He paid for our salvation.
  2. R. I see Jesus tied to the pillar, His body unmarred. Then they begin to beat Him with such harsh instruments! They tear His flesh and wound His beautiful body. When I think of the little irritations that I allow to bother me each day, I see Jesus with His body covered with wounds.
  3. Jesus: It is in your struggles that you will find comfort when you meditate on My passion and the stations of the cross. My dear ones, I am giving you abundant grace when you meditate on My passion, the stations of the cross and the Sorrowful Mysteries. It is there you will find much comfort from the struggles you are experiencing. Come to My Heart and let Me bathe you in unending love.
  4. Jesus: The starved soul searches and wanders for love. I am present to you in a special way, My dear ones, outpouring My love to you. Do you feel the love that I am giving to you at this moment? Stop. Make a Spiritual Communion. Feel the presence of the Almighty God within your heart. Release and let go of all of the anxieties of the day, all of the distractions that have occurred with your family and friends. Focus totally on My love for you and My presence within.
  5. R. I see before me the gigantic wounds on the arms of Jesus, My Savior. The wounds are open wide, exposing the interior of His body. I know the little crosses that I am asked to carry that seem so monumental. They seem so minute when compared to His wounds!
  6. R. It is in meditating on the relationship between Jesus and His Mother that I experience much warmth in my heart.
  7. R. If we were really there and saw the men as they beat our beloved Jesus, would we believe then the immensity of His love? It is through His life, His suffering and His death that we are saved from our sins. Blessed Jesus, I place my trust in You.
  8. R. How hard it is many times to trust and surrender when we are backed against a wall and the sufferings seem so monumental. It is in meditating on these Sorrowful Mysteries that our hearts are softened and we realize the immense love that Jesus has for each one of us. He gave His Flesh and Blood for each and every soul. He died for each person and He asks us to love God and our neighbor, to love those that are kind and those that are not so kind, to love all our brothers.
  9. Jesus: Let your hearts be soft and supple. Come to Me, My beloved ones, and I will bathe you in My Heart filled with love. Let go of all hatred, anger and resentment and look at your brothers through My eyes. I suffered, I was scourged, for your beloved brother. My dear ones, will you not love him for Me this day? Many of your brothers are hurting and in pain and you will carry out My love to this hurting world. Surrender and let go of all resentments, of hatred and anger. It is hard, many times, to follow My way. I am giving you abundant graces. I am showering you with My love. You know the Heart of Jesus. Can you not share this Heart with all you meet? Lift your hearts to God. Pray to the Spirit to be lifted high and filled with vibrancy.
  10. R. His back was scourged and He walked away from the pillar covered with wounds, but His Heart was filled with love and His eyes were gentle and loving, for He loved each and every soul unconditionally and He proceeded on His way. As He was crowned with thorns and carried His cross to His death on the cross, He loved each and every soul.

The Crowning with Thorns

  1. R. His head was crowned with a crown of piercing thorns. They pounded the thorns into His head. The thorns tore His flesh.
  2. R. He stood. They spit on Him. They mocked Him. They called Him a King. Jesus Christ, the King of all Kings, whose Heart is filled with burning love, such gentleness! To each one of us He says, "I love you, I love you, I love you," His Heart filled with love for His persecutors!
    Jesus: My dear ones, think of the little crosses you are asked to carry this day. Think of how they treated Me, and I am God! You will suffer and you will receive much persecution for My sake. My dear ones, pray for the grace to be strong. Satan aims to stop you. I am giving to you abundant graces to withstand all of your sufferings. I love you, I love you, I love you. You are My beloved ones. I am Jesus. I give Myself to you. Come to the Eucharist. I will give you Myself.
  3. Jesus: Little thorns on your way! Little thorns that lead you to greater life in Me! Little ones, I know you are struggling this day.
  4. R. If Jesus sat and was crowned with thorns, if they spit on Him and mocked Him, can we not stand the vile words of our brothers? Words wound us sometimes, words from those closest to us. Satan knows how to get to each one of us. He works on those that are closest to us. Dear Jesus, give me the grace to love more and more as You loved.
  5. Song: Give me Your Heart, O Jesus, give me a heart like Yours. Teach me to love You with this new heart. Oh, I know little of how to love You. Create in me, oh, precious Savior, this special heart.

    Jesus:     I allow you to suffer many sufferings for you are being strengthened.
  6. Song: Crown Him with many crowns, the lamb upon His throne. His regal scepter knows no bounds, all kingdoms are His own. All Christians come and sing, to Him who died for thee, and hail Him as thy Savior King for all eternity.
  7. R. So precious, the head to the body, and they gave to Jesus a crown of thorns.
  8. Jesus: Can you not love your brothers this day? See My face, covered with blood, and My head crowned with thorns. This is the love I have for you. Will you not love your brothers that are in this world, those hurting and in pain? I am Jesus. I am sending you into the world as My special apostles of love.
  9. Jesus: Pray as you have never prayed before, for prayers can stop wars. Pray the rosary and meditate deeply on the mysteries of Our lives.
  10. R. Touch me, Jesus, with your burning love.

Song: Little baby hands and feet…

The Carrying of the Cross

  1. Jesus: I carried My cross up Calvary and the road became harder and harder. I fell under My cross. My face hit the earth. My dear ones, you carry crosses that get heavier and heavier. Look at me as I carried mine and look at Me with My face on the ground. This is the love that I have for you. Do not give up in all your trials and struggles. You are My beloved ones. You must come to My Heart. Let Me fill you with My strength. You cannot give up. Meditate on this mystery as I went on and on and on and it became harder and harder as the cross became heavier and heavier.
  2. Jesus: Satan wants you stopped. You must pray for grace to have joy in your heart, for you are given great gifts and I am giving you the messages of My love.
  3. Jesus: The night may be dark and cold but in your heart the light of My love shines brightly.
  4. Jesus: The First Commandment commands that you love God with your whole heart, your whole soul and your whole being. It is through your example that the others will see the love in your heart. My dear ones, do not go backwards. Come to Me and let Me fill you with such vibrancy. You will go into this world and show all a heart that is filled with the love of God.
  5. R. Veronica wiped His blood-covered face.
  6. Jesus: I know your every thought far better than you yourself, My dear ones. I know what is in your hearts. I am so attentive to all of your needs, all your struggles, all your pain. Do you believe Me? I am Jesus. You do not know the tender love I have for you. I am here and I am pouring out to you tender love.
  7. R. His eyes met the eyes of His beloved Mother. Her face was reddened and covered with tears. His eyes and His face were covered with blood. As their eyes met there was such intimacy between the Son and His Mother. They had known that this day would come. In that look they shared their grief and their love.
  8. R. He fell a second and third time and He was forced to get up, always in compliance with the Father's Will. To His death on the cross He gave His all for love of us.
  9. Jesus: The sun may not shine, the stars may cease to shine, but, My dear ones, you will have My light within your heart. Your hearts will be filled and lighted with this love. As you walk in darkness you will feel an interior warmth in your heart. You will know the presence of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. If you are in the state of grace, We dwell within your heart in such a special way.
  10. Jesus: No matter what your cross is, know that you are never alone. Focus on this presence within you, the presence of the Almighty God. Know the love of your Father. Think of this: a Father that loves you with the deepest love and is dwelling within your heart.

The Crucifixion

  1. Jesus: Sufferings may befall the earth but you will not fear for you will feel the presence of the Almighty God within you. At this moment feel this presence so close to you.
  2. Jesus: Come to My Heart. Take refuge from the scorching sun in My Heart. I hung for three agonizing hours on the cross. You, too, will remain in peace, for you will know the interior presence of the Almighty God within you.
  3. Jesus: Feel the warmth within you and surrender, My dear ones. When you are backed up against a wall, surrender. Take all of your cares and put them in the arms of the Almighty God. I spread My arms on the cross and gave My all for love of you. Do you think I am not listening to your prayers this day? I am Jesus. If I gave My life for you, do you think I would abandon you now? I am so attentive to all of your needs.
  4. Jesus: Come to Me, My little child. I feel your heart so filled with fear. I am gentle and kind of Heart. I give you My abundant love. My Mother nurses you with her milk. You are so loved by the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Surrender. Do not be in fear. I do not want you to fear, My precious little child. Come as a baby at the breast and surrender to your loving Mother and your loving Father.
  5. R. Such love Jesus had for each one of us that He gave the last beat of His Heart! He could have at any time stopped what was happening. He had complied with the Will of the Father for love of us. Then He gave the last beat of His Heart.
  6. Jesus: Come to Me, My beloved ones. My Mother nurses you with the milk of salvation. I am Jesus. I love you, I love you, I love you. Mary stood beneath the cross. I gave you, My beloved ones, My very own Mother to care for you.
  7. Jesus: Mary is caring for you as she cared for Me, forming you forever in her Heart, through the Holy Spirit, to be more and more like Me. My dear ones, you were created in the image and likeness of God. Surrender and let Us work in you.
  8. Jesus: You are being polished and purified. I want hearts that are filled with love. I am the bridegroom of your soul. I gave My life for love of you. Will you come and give your heart to Me?
  9. R. I consecrate my heart to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. His Heart was pierced with a lance. Her Heart was pierced with a sword.
  10. R. It is through His pierced Heart that the sacramental life of the Church was formed: water, a symbol for baptism; blood, a symbol of the Eucharist. We are given His divine life in baptism. We are fed through His very own Body and Blood. Mary is the Mediatrix of all graces and His life flows through her Heart. It is through Mary's Heart that we are dispensed this life, merited by Her Son as He gave His life on the cross.

July 11, 1995 Shepherds of Christ Meeting

Mary: My dear little children, I am Mary, your Mother. I have called each one of you here to hear my plea. This world is hurting and in pain. My little children suffer so. Will you be my little children that go out and spread the love of my Son Jesus to the world? It is in your actions that many are taught the lessons of His love. I speak to you gently for I love you with a gentle Heart. My Son Jesus loves you with a Heart of deepest love. Surrender and let go and let Our love penetrate your heart and fill you. I am protecting you with my motherly mantle. I am holding you in my arms and pressing you close to my Heart. I am giving to you my motherly love. Surrender and feel me as I hold you in my arms and give you the milk of salvation. I am Mary your mother and I am forever with you. My precious, precious little children, pray for all my little children on this earth.

  

  

ROSARY MEDITATIONS
JULY 28, 1995
THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES

The Agony in the Garden

  1. Jesus: My dear ones, I am Jesus and you must listen to the words that I am speaking to you, for I am telling you that sufferings at this time are befalling this earth and that Satan is pressing down. He is pressing down so hard on all My beloved, faithful ones! As you see the confusion, the doubt, and the troubles mount in your life at this moment, you will know that Satan is busy and his work is at hand. I am molding you as special soldiers to go into this world to spread My love. How dearly I love each of you. I have called you here to pray this rosary with all your heart. Let your heart be open; let your heart be soft.

    Let Me fill you with My love so you feel within you My burning love. Although the earth be shaken and not give its light, you will know that the Almighty God dwells within your heart and that you have nothing to fear, for a graced soul is constantly filled with the presence of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. I am Jesus, your beloved Savior. You do not know the tricks and the handiwork that Satan has planned to stop My faithful ones from spreading My love. It is in focusing on My burning Heart, My Heart of deepest love, that you will withstand all the trials with joy in your heart for, minute by minute, second by second, I am present with you. I am with you at this very moment. You are telling every person you meet about the God who lives within you. Let your hearts be filled with joy for I am truly present and in your midst. I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God, in this room with you in the tabernacle, the same as the day I walked the earth and died on the cross. Let your hearts be joyous. Rejoice and give thanks to the Almighty God and praise His name, for you are called, you are favored, you are chosen and you are loved with My deepest, burning love.
  2. Jesus: In the garden I knelt with such agony in My Heart, for in My divine knowing I saw before Me all of the events about to happen. I knew of every beating, all of the blood that I would shed, but, more than anything, I knew the rejection and pain in My Heart for the love I had for My beloved ones and how they would reject Me. Look at your world this day. It was in the garden that I suffered for all of the souls that have forgotten God. I cry out to you from the tabernacle to realize My presence with you. You are given great gifts in this room. I want you to unite closely to My Heart, for I am longing and thirsting and waiting for this love affair with you. This rosary will be a time when you will share My deepest love. I am giving you great graces when you come before Me in the tabernacle. I will draw you more and more closely to My Heart. As I suffered in the garden for the souls that beat Me and treated Me with indifference, I was comforted by the acts of love that you are giving to Me this day.
  3. R. The eyes of Jesus that cried bloody tears for all of the souls that have forgotten Him! Jesus calls from the tabernacle. Constantly I hear His lamenting cry of how He longs and thirsts to be ever closer to the hearts of men. Many men have turned their backs and do not realize the gentleness and sweetness of His love.
  4. Jesus: Love is giving, My dear ones, giving of yourself for the sake of others. Many this day do not know the meaning of love. To love means to give of yourself, to give for the other. Many times it is hard to love and keep giving love for, as you are self-giving, the other continues to be selfish, but I am calling you to love. As you meditate on this passion, focus on My love, given for all, how I was persecuted and suffered and still loved. My way is love. Focus on the meaning of the word love and what it means to you.
  5. Jesus: I am vigilant and forever by your side. Unconditionally I love you. No matter what you have done in your life, I love you.
  6. Jesus: It is this love that I want you to give to this world. Love is giving.
  7. Jesus: My love is gentle. My love is sweet. My love is kind.
  8. Jesus: I give to you great graces to help you to love in this world that is hurting and in pain. Satan will cause confusion and division in your lives. He will tempt and tempt you to try to justify your actions. You must be silent many times, and yield and pray, for he is trying to create great division in your lives. You must go to My Heart and take refuge there and focus on My love for you. You are My soldiers that I am sending into this world to spread My love. Will you answer this call? Will you pray for more and more grace to spread this love to a world that is hurting and in pain?
  9. Jesus: Think of how it is when you love someone so much and that person walks by and ignores you. Your heart is crying out for union with that person but in his coldness he does not see you and goes his way. My dear ones, his heart is in pain and hurting. I came to show you the way of love. My way is love. When your brother mistreats you, you must realize that within he is hurting and in pain.
  10. Jesus: I come to give you peace, peace in your hearts and in your souls. Do not argue with your brothers. When you argue, Satan is there trying to cause division. I am asking you to focus always on the love in My Heart. I am giving you messages of My love. Do you realize the great gifts that you are given, that you are in this room, in this chapel, in the presence of the Almighty God? Focus on the great gifts given to you this day from the Almighty God.

    How can you be glum and sad in your ways when you realize that the Almighty God loves you with the deepest love and that He is present. Pray for the grace to see more and more, for many are blind and do not see the great gifts given to them. I am giving to you, My faithful ones, great gifts and the graces to see with much clarity. Open your heart and pray for the grace to love your brothers as I have loved you.

    Satan wants you focused on yourself so you will not spread the light to this world that is hurting and in pain. Satan wants souls for hell-souls for hell! Do you realize that? Let go of any kind of selfishness that you feel within yourself and vow to love and to give. Let go, release. If you let go you will feel tremendous freedom and My grace will pour into your heart and you will be filled with My burning love.

Jesus Is Scourged at the Pillar

  1. Jesus: You do not know the extent to which Satan will go to keep you focused on yourselves. He is busy and working hard to keep your hearts set on problems. I am Jesus and I am giving you My abundant love. Focus on My love for you.
  2. Jesus: You are My lights that I am sending into this world to spread My love. It is the smile on your face, the look in your eye, the gentleness in your voice, the love that you give to this world in all the little actions that will send My message of love to those you touch. Let go and surrender and pray for grace. Whatever is bothering you, let go and you will feel an outpouring of My grace as it rushes into your heart and you are set free, for minute by minute, second by second, Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwell within you and you are never alone. If the earth is shaken and the sun ceases to shine, you will have this presence of the Almighty God firmly fixed within your heart.
  3. Jesus: They tore My flesh; they beat My body. See My body, dear ones, covered with wounds and bleeding. See the wounds, deep wounds, My flesh torn open by the angry hearts of these men! I came to show you the way. In all of this torture I loved those who tore open My flesh. I came to show you the way to love. I ask you this day to release anything that is hurting inside of you, and you will feel joy in your heart, for to know Me is to have joy in your heart. Amidst all the sufferings that you are going through, keep your focus on Me.
  4. Jesus: Your life is a constant reliving of death-resurrection. My dear ones, as you suffer this day, as you stay rooted in Me, you are brought to deeper and deeper life in Me. You live this paschal mystery of death-resurrection in your daily lives. I came to show you the way. I came to show you the way to love. Love is gentle, love is kind. It is caring for the other. In this world today many hearts have turned cold.
  5. Jesus: In the intensity of My deepest love I want you to feel the vibrancy of this love within your heart. At this moment, focus on the presence of the Father, your loving Father who created you with such preciousness and such beauty. He created you, a very unique part of His plan, a plan for the salvation of the world. There is not another person who is like you, and He dwells within your heart. When you are in the state of grace, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit live within you.
  6. Jesus: Come to the Heart of My Mother. Lay yourself down in her Heart and be cradled by her love. As you dwell in her Heart, so too will you dwell in My Heart. Feel this presence, of dwelling within the Heart of your loving Mother and dwelling within My Heart, on fire for love of you!
  7. Jesus: The Holy Spirit, who proceeds from the mutual love of the Father and of the Son, is present within you, My dear ones. Do you feel His fire and His vibrancy as He leads you more and more on your way, on this journey to eternity?
  8. Jesus: My dear ones, focus now on the presence of the Almighty God within you, of the Father, and His love for you, of the Son and Holy Spirit. Feel the security. You have nothing to fear. The only fear that you should have is for the loss of the life in your soul. Let go, surrender, and feel the freedom of knowing the presence of the Almighty God that lives in a graced soul.
  9. Jesus: Tremendous gifts you are given, My beloved ones. Pray for the grace to realize the gifts that you are given. I stood at the pillar and they tore My flesh. The men, with their angry hearts and ugly faces, with hatred deep-rooted in their hearts. I shed My blood for them. I loved these men, these men that put me to My death. See Me wounded, with deep wounds that ripped My flesh. I am with you at every second. You receive abundant graces for loving when others are cold to you. I am with you every second. Let go and surrender. The time is at hand. Many souls will be lost and I am calling you to go into this world to spread My message of love. I am Jesus. I love you, I love you, I love you. From the tabernacle I call out to you with My Heart, yearning with deepest love, wounded for all the souls that have forgotten and treat Me with such indifference. Think of someone you love walking by and ignoring you. I am ignored and forgotten, treated with disrespect. I am, My dear ones, the Son of God! I wait, I wait, I wait for My beloved ones to come and, from their lips, to whisper their words of love. I am a Person and I am longing and thirsting for your love. Open your hearts and come to Me.
  10. Hail Mary…

Jesus is Crowned with Thorns

  1. Jesus: The words that wound! Words from your beloved brother! Do you see My body, covered with wounds, wounds all over My body? When your brother treats you with ugliness, My dear ones, focus on the wounds covering My body and pray for the grace to act as I would want you to act.
  2. Jesus: My dear ones, let your hearts be in joy as you realize My presence continually within you. During all of your sufferings, I am with you.
  3. R. They pounded into His head a sharp crown of piercing thorns. Look at the head of Jesus, punctured by the thorns, the deep holes around His forehead. Focus on these wounds and then think of the little wounds that we receive, the words spoken, the problems that we let press on our minds. Look at Jesus and think of the crown of thorns pressing on His head. He allows us to suffer and in this suffering we are brought to greater and greater life in Him. Do we feel this divine life within us?
  4. R. Look at the crowned head of Jesus and see the blood that comes down His face and goes into His eyes and into His ears. His hands were tied. He could not even try to wipe the blood from His brow. He loved those men that crowned Him with thorns.
  5. Jesus: You will suffer much mental persecution this day, a pressing down of problems and things in your life that will irritate you. You must focus on My love for you. Come and dwell in the Heart of My Mother and, when you dwell in her Heart, you will dwell deeply in My Heart. You must come for our love. Things will be very hard and you will not be able to withstand the trials without Our love.
  6. Jesus: Why do you go it alone when I am here, I am present, and I am outpouring My life, My grace, to you this day. Let go, surrender. When you are backed up against a wall, let go. I am here. Trust. (R. Jesus, I trust in You.) Forever on your lips say, "Dear Sacred Heart of Jesus, I trust in You!"
  7. Jesus: Accept all that is going on in your life this day for I am allowing these trials to strengthen you for the days ahead. The trials you are experiencing will strengthen you.
  8. Jesus: Praise the Almighty God for the great gifts that you are given in these sufferings for you are growing more and more in My life. They pounded into My head a sharp crown of piercing thorns and in all of this I remained at peace, for I knew that it was the Father's Will. Surrender and let go. I am with you, second by second, minute by minute. I ponder the way of your heart and I am with you.
  9. Jesus: You too can have joy in suffering if you realize the presence of the Almighty God. I am allowing this suffering to help you grow in your graced life.
  10. Jesus: I love you, I love you, I love you. Surrender and let go, for I am truly with you.

Jesus Carries His Cross Up Calvary

  1. Jesus: I ask you to carry the cross that you are given this day and to carry this cross with joy in your heart.
  2. Song: See the eyes that look at Mary…
  3. R. Jesus' and Mary's eyes met on the way to Calvary. Jesus looked into the face of His beloved Mother and He saw the tender love, and the hurt in her face. Mary looked into the eyes of Her Son and she knew of the suffering that He was undergoing. She saw His physical strain. She saw Him fall under the cross. She saw His blood and His wounds. She saw, in the meeting of their eyes, the immense love that He has for us this day.
  4. R. It is in Mary that we will reach this deep intimacy with the Heart of Jesus. It is in going to Mary's Heart, in being rocked in her arms and held close to her breast, that she gives to us the milk of salvation. She gives to us life from her Son Jesus.
  5. R. It is in knowing the tender love of our beloved Mother that we will join more deeply to the love of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It is through Mary's Heart that we are carried to this love of God.
  6. Jesus: Release yourself and let go for I am truly present in this room with you at this very moment. Put off all distractions. Focus more and more on My presence with you. All through your day, all through your encounters with others, I want you to be aware of My presence with you, not just when you pray, but all through the day-when you are talking to others, when you are walking, whatever you are doing.
  7. R. Be alone in a room and be aware of the immense love within your being of Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. You are touched so deeply within your soul! In this time you sit with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and you soak in this presence. Time passes by, but you are unaware, for you are lost in this experience with the presence of God. Time stands still.

    At this point you rise and walk from the room. As you walk from the room, you know that your heart has been touched deeply by the presence of the Almighty God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. You walk into a new world, for you are free of anxiety. You have been touched in such a way that you know that the Almighty God is truly present and living within you. You know that you do not have to fear, for the power and might of God are truly within you. You walk from this room and you carry this special touch of grace with you throughout the day. And, although the earth is shaken and the sun ceases to shine, you are steadfast in His love and His presence.

    Jesus: My dear ones, things will begin to happen. So much confusion and doubt now in your life! Sufferings are coming. You must know this presence within you. It is in this presence, with the Almighty God within you, that you will have deep joy within your heart at all times for you know what God is telling you. You know that He is inside of you. You can watch things fall down around you, and people stumble in your midst, but you know that, if you stay steadfastly fixed in the love of Almighty God, you do not fear for He is truly present. You walk from this room and, as you walk, you carry this presence with you. Wherever you go, know that you have been touched by a special grace and that the presence of the Almighty God-Father, Son, and Holy Spirit-truly dwells within you. Your greatest fear is to lose the life of God by sin. Everything else will work according to the plan of the Father if you surrender and carry this presence within you. Do His Will.
  8. R. And the earth was shaken, and trees fell, and many catastrophes hit the land, but within their hearts there was an inner peace and tranquillity as they walked from the room, for they were touched by Almighty God. Nothing can shake the presence of God within their hearts.
  9. R. And He carried the cross on His back. His body was stooped over, and His face was covered with blood, and His head crowned with thorns, and He could hardly move. He fell three times under the weight of the cross but within His Heart was peace for He knew the love of His Father. He knew the Father's Will. You, too, will go about your life and have peace and joy within your heart, for you will know that as you walk the Almighty God dwells within you.

    Jesus: Be one with Me, My precious ones, one with Me. Unite more and more to Me. Say the Prayer for Union with Me. Every day pray this prayer. Let go, surrender and feel the freedom of knowing the indwelling of the Trinity.
  10. Jesus: As you see My face covered with blood, see My body stooped down and the cross on My back. I could hardly move. As you look into My eyes, tender, loving eyes, My dear ones, I want you to hear three words from My lips as I look back at you with My tender loving eyes. I love you!

Jesus is Crucified and Dies on the Cross

  1. R. Jesus was raised high on the cross on Calvary. See Him on the hill and see Mary under the cross and hear the wind blow. See the cross against the darkened sky. This is the greatest sacrifice: the Son of God gave His all to the Father for love of us. His hands were pierced, His feet were pierced, His head was crowned with thorns. He surrendered and gave His life that we might have life forever with Him in heaven.
  2. R. As you go to each Mass, unite in oneness with the priest, the priest who is Christ present at the Mass. Unite in this oneness and offer yourself in this act of self-giving to the Father. See Jesus at the Last Supper as He offered the bread and hear His words, "…this is my body" (Mk 14:22), for He knew He would give His flesh and His blood for the love of His precious souls. At Mass we offer ourselves, through and with Christ, to the Father, in the Holy Spirit.
  3. R. It is in uniting ourselves to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass being offered all through the world at every moment, offering ourselves with this sacrifice to the Father, that this is our most powerful prayer and that our prayers are magnified to such an extent. All through the day offer, with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, to the Father, in the Holy Spirit, through the intercession of the Virgin Mary. Offer up, My dear ones, your prayers-for the souls suffering in this world this day, for the souls in Purgatory that need your prayers-all of your petitions. Unite them to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass going on constantly, the greatest prayer that you can give to the Father.
  4. Jesus: This is My Body. This is My Blood.
  5. Jesus: My dear ones, I give you Myself this day in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and you take this so lightly. As I gave Myself as a sacrifice on Calvary, so I give Myself to you this day. Deeper and deeper My union with you grows as you receive Me in the Eucharist. I am crying out to you to realize the great gifts that you are given, for, when you receive Me in the Eucharist, you become so united in such oneness with Me.
  6. Jesus: Prepare yourself for this event. Prepare to receive the Almighty God in deepest union in your heart and pray for the grace that this Mass will be filled with meaning for you and that you will unite in such oneness with Me. You pray at the Offertory to the Father that He accept this Sacrifice. Offer your lives to the Father with Me. Put your life in His hands. Let Him run your life and you will be free and good will happen for you, as you grow more and more in your life and unite more and more closely to Him.
  7. Jesus: As you unite in such oneness with Me, you unite also with all those present in Me.
    R. Let the world unite in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and all become one in Christ, for we are one body in Him and He is the head.
  8. R. Let us all pray in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world and offer ourselves up continually in this Sacrifice with Jesus to the Father. As we all do this there will be unity in this offering, for we are all one in Him. As we unite in Him, we unite in each other.
  9. R. Ave Maria! It is through the pierced Heart of Jesus that the sacramental life of the Church was born. Blood and water flowed forth from His Heart-water, the symbol of baptism, our rebirth in Him, and blood, the symbol of the Eucharist, whereby we are fed by his Body. As the life flows through His pierced Heart, so it flows through His beloved Mother, for her Heart was invisibly pierced with a sword and she is the Mediatrix of all grace. As she nourished the Christ Child within her womb, so she provides the life to us from her Son Jesus through her spiritual womb.
  10. R. I see the life flow from His pierced Heart, through the Heart of the Virgin Mary, and into our hearts. We are saturated with this divine life and divine love. It is from His Heart that all mercy and love flow.

  

 

ROSARY MEDITATIONS
JANUARY 26, 1995
THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES

The Agony in the Garden

  1. R. Be with Jesus as He kneels in the Garden of Gethsemane.
  2. R. Be there in the night. Hear the sounds of the night. See Jesus as He kneels in such agony to see before Him all the sufferings that He is about to undergo.
  3. R. With greatest love for each one of us, the Father sent into this world His only-begotten Son.
  4. R. Jesus took on a human nature with greatest love for each one of us. He now kneels in the Garden, His Heart in such anguish. He who is Love sees before Him all the souls from all time who would neglect Him and treat Him so indifferently despite all His suffering and love that His most tender Heart has for each and every soul.
  5. R. He saw before Him all the souls that would be condemned to eternal damnation despite the fact that He suffered and died for love of each soul.
  6. R. The anguish that He suffered in the Garden, the agonies that He suffered in His most Sacred Heart, were far greater than the physical wounds that He would soon bear throughout His entire Passion. For He is Love, with a Heart burning for love of all souls-the souls that neglect Him, the souls that do not even think of Him, the souls that go through their lives, have nothing to do with Jesus, and then are condemned forever and ever to the fires of hell.
  7. R. Jesus remains with us this very day, the same as the day that He knelt in the Garden. He remains with us in His divinity and humanity. With greatest love for each one of us He longs, He thirsts, He waits for us to come and be with Him in front of the tabernacle.
  8. His suffering in the Garden was so great that His sweat became as great drops of blood upon the ground.
  9. R. He went to the apostles and asked them, "Had you not the strength to stay awake one hour?" (Mk 14:37) How many times does Jesus ask us this day if we do not have one hour to spend with Him? There are twenty-four hours in a day. But how many times during the day do we say no to Jesus, that we are too busy. And His Heart waits and waits for us. At every second His Heart is an endless, burning furnace of love. Whether we think of Him or not, He is always ablaze, on fire for us, loving us and waiting for us to allow Him to be our constant companion.
  10. R. God, grant to us the grace to know and to love You more so that we can more fully realize that You truly are God-made-man in Jesus Christ, that You come to this earth in greatest love for each one of us, that You long and wait for our love and that You want to give us Your love.

Song between decades: I come to you with greatest love, I am your loving Savior. I am your God, I died for you. I come to you this day.

The Scourging at the Pillar

  1. Jesus: My Heart is on fire for each one of My precious souls. I long for you to come and be with Me. As I suffered all through My Passion, the greatest agonies were not the agonies that I suffered to My body-the scourging at the pillar, the tearing of My flesh-but the agonies that I endured to My most tender Heart, which is a Heart of love waiting to share with each and every one of My precious souls. Oh, My children, I call out to you this day to spread My love to the world that is in pain. I call out to you to be My soldiers, to spread the love of My Most Sacred Heart to the souls that are suffering and in pain. You are My mighty warriors in a world that is cold and has forgotten God. You must be strong soldiers, for this world will persecute you as they persecuted Me. I send you into the world, armed with hearts filled with My love, to spread My love along the highways and the byways in every corner of this earth and I ask you this day, can you say no?
  2. Jesus: They tied Me to a pillar and they beat My flesh. My once unblemished back was now an open wound. I was full of blood. But My worst agony was the agony that I endured in My Most Sacred Heart, the Heart that gives to you and to every soul divine love, divine life, and is rejected by many, is treated coldly.
  3. Jesus: I loved Judas so dearly and Judas betrayed Me with a kiss. How many of My dear souls come to Me with hearts that are hot and cold. I want you to come to Me with hearts, full of love, that will unite with Mine, that will become one with Mine, that will give to this world My love for your hurting brothers. I ask you this day, "Do not say no!" I am truly Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Who was scourged at the pillar for love of your brothers. I ask you to hear the blows that they gave to Me. They are the blows that I suffered for your brother. How can you treat your brother badly when they tore My flesh, and out of greatest love I withstood all this treatment for your beloved brother?
  4. Jesus: I gave My all. I stood there. I was beaten. I was bruised. I was bloodied. I came to show you the way, the way to love. They persecuted Me. I loved those who persecuted Me. I ask you this day to be kind in your heart, to give to this world the love that I want to give to you. I am a burning furnace of endless love. My power never goes out. My love is never spent. Come to My Most Sacred Heart and I will fill your hearts with endless love.
  5. Song: Lord, let me walk that last mile in Your shoes, under the weight of the wood…
  6. Jesus: See in the dim light as I stand at the pillar. See the men with their angry faces, with hatred in their hearts, as they pound at My flesh.
  7. Jesus: When they persecute you and hate you because you are not of this world, you must endure all out of greatest love. My way is always love. I came to show you the way, the way to eternal happiness. It is only in loving one another that you will merit eternal life. I ask you for two things. I ask you to love God and to love one another.
  8. Jesus: Come to My Eucharistic Heart! Let Me fill you with the fire of My love so that it will radiate to all those that you come in contact with. For the power of the Almighty God is a power that cannot be contained. It will radiate from your being to all those you touch.
  9. Jesus: When I walked from the pillar, the earth was marked by My bloody footprints.
  10. Jesus: As the earth was marked by My bloody footprints, I ask you to make a mark on this world, to spread to this world the love of My Most Sacred Heart.

Song between decades: I come to you with greatest love…

The Crowning with Thorns

  1. Jesus: My body was battered, bruised and bloodied, and they covered Me with a dirty purple robe that they put on top of My wounds. I held a scepter and they crowned Me with a sharp crown of piercing thorns.
  2. R. Do you know what it is like to get a little splinter in your hand? They pounded into Jesus' most precious head thorns that were thick and piercing until the blood ran down His face, into His eyes and into His ears. His hair was matted. This was truly the King of Kings! The Son of God! And He was crowned with a crown of piercing thorns!
  3. Song: Only this I want, but to know the Lord, and to bear His cross, so to wear the crown He wore…
  4. Jesus: They spit on Me and they hollered slanders at Me and I sat, as they did, in silence.
  5. Jesus: I truly came into this world, the Son of God, to show you the way. As I sat in silence, think of how you respond to those who come to you with hatred in their hearts. My way is the way of love. You must love all your brothers as I have loved.
  6. Jesus: My Father created each and every child-so precious, so unique-with such love that He sent Me into this world.
  7. Jesus: I love you so this day that I would suffer again all that I suffered for you before.
  8. Jesus: With all the love that I pour out to each and every one of you, think of how it is to love so much and to be neglected by so many.
  9. Jesus: Pray to the Spirit to open your heart to the fire of My love.
  10. Jesus: You are blind men! You do not see the love that I outpour to you. You see little incidental things, so close in front of your face, when My Heart is overflowing with divine love, with divine life. I want to give you My life! I give you Myself in the Eucharist. Come for My love. Nothing on this earth can compare to My divine love and My divine life that I want to give to you!

Song between decades: I come to you with greatest love...

The Carrying of the Cross

  1. R. See Jesus with His hands tied, with a look of perfect peace on His face. And see those men who are surrounding Jesus, with their sharp instruments poking at Him with anger and hatred on their faces-such anger and hatred that they condemned Jesus to death on a cross!
  2. R. They gave to Him a heavy cross that they put on His most precious shoulder. He carried the weight of the sins of the world on His back. This is the love that He has for each and every man, that He carries the cross with our sins on His back.
  3. R. He calls out to us that He is no less present in the Eucharist this day than the day He walked to Calvary with His cross on His back. And He says to each one of us, "I give you Myself. Why do you run from My altar when I, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, come to you and become one with you, and you run from the Church?"
  4. Jesus: I peered into the eyes of My beloved mother and she peered into My eyes. There was joy at the meeting of the eyes, but such sorrow deep within each of Our Hearts. The knowing of My mother, the knowing of Me, her most precious Son, and how she had held Me and loved Me! I saw her in such suffering! I saw her face with tears. I saw My most precious mother torn so deeply in her Heart. It is the love of Our Hearts for you that has led us to this place. I ask you to spread this love throughout the world. I would truly carry My cross this day for you because I love you so dearly. My children! My children! What more do you want than that God comes to earth and is born a man out of greatest love for you? And you in your limited vision see only in front of your face. You do not come to My altar to receive the life that I want to outpour to you. My children! My children! You are so blind! Pray for grace! Pray for My life, to know and love all that you do not see. You do not see because you do not come to My altar, because you do not spend time with Me!
  5. Jesus: My mother comes to stay, to lead you ever closer to My most tender Heart. I ask you to answer this call, the call of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to be joined ever closer to the Hearts brimming over with love for each and every soul.
  6. Jesus: I fell under My cross. The weight was so heavy! I did not give My cross up. I willingly carried this cross for love of you!
  7. Jesus: It is in living in the Father's Will that you will be the happiest. To My very death I followed the Will of the Father.
  8. Song: See the eyes that look at Mary, her tender infant child. See the child's Heart beat so tenderly, the Savior of the world.
  9. R. See through the eyes of Mary. She peered into Jesus' eyes on Calvary. See through the eyes of Mary as she comes and appears to us this day to tell us to see her through her eyes the love of her precious Son, Jesus Christ, to see that He truly walked to Calvary, that He was truly scourged and crowned with thorns and that He did it for greatest love of each of us. And He calls out this day for us to come and be with Him and to spread His love to this world.
  10. Song: She rocked Him as a baby. She fed Him as a child. She heard Him call Her name out in the night. She helped Him take His first step and she cried when He said His first words. I wish they all could see through a Mother's eyes.

Song between decades: I come to you with greatest love…

The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus on the Cross

  1. R. See the little hands of Jesus. See the little feet of Jesus as Mary holds Him as a baby. And now she stands and watches as they pound nails through His most precious hands into the cross. The anguish in her Heart so deep! And a sword, too, shall pierce your Heart, Oh Mary!
  2. R. Mary does not bear the wounds, the blood, as Jesus does. But Mary's Heart is torn to see her beloved Son, battered, bruised and bloody, and now hanging on the cross!
  3. R. Be there! The sky has turned dark as Jesus hangs for three agonizing hours on the cross. His body is humped over. He is so weak! He gives His blood. He spreads His arms. He gives His all for love of each and every one of us. He truly gives His flesh. He gives His blood because He loves us so much! He was born a human! He was born on bare wood in a stable and now He hangs on a cross!
  4. R. His blood was spent so that we could inherit eternal life.
  5. R. As He gave His life on the cross, so He gives us His life this day in the Eucharist!
  6. Song: I am the Bread of Life. He who comes to Me shall not hunger and who believes in Me shall not thirst. No one can come to Me unless the Father beckons. And I will raise you up, and I will raise you up, and I will raise you up on the last day.
  7. R. He gave the last beat of His Heart. He gave His last breath. He gave His all. His hands were punctured with nails. His Head was pierced with thorns. He gave the inside of His body as well as the outside of His body! And He asks us, in greatest love, to surrender ourselves to Him. For He truly gave His all for love of us. If He loved us so much that He gave His body, His blood, His all for each and every one of us, would He not give us from His abundance this day? He comes with such letters of love to tell you that He is truly Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and in your midst this day in the Eucharist, waiting for you to come and be with Him, for He truly loves with a Heart of divine love. He truly has divine life that He outpours to each and every soul. He wants so much to share Himself with each one of us!
    Jesus:Come to Me, My children, and I will give you My divine love, My divine life. I love you so dearly! I call out to you this day to come for My love and to give this love to the world for it is only through you that the Father's plan will be realized. For a heart fixed on the love of God can move a mountain. I am asking you to live in the Father's Will, to spread My love throughout the world. If you say no, this world will suffer. You are My chosen ones, each and every soul. Come! Be filled with the love I pour out to you. Love your fellowmen. Love your brothers when they hate you and persecute you. Love them as I loved those who put Me to death. I ask you this day to open your hearts and rid yourselves of all impurities, to pray to the Spirit to sanctify your hearts, to clean out the debris of hatred and anger, and to come to My tabernacle with a heart that is open and pure so I can fill you with My divine love. For it is in your uniting with Me that I can operate from you and love this world as I so desire. This is My call to you this day. Can you say no? See Me hanging on the cross. This is how I loved you!
  8. R. Mary stood under the cross and she saw Her beloved Son as He took His last breath.
  9. R. She calls out to you this day. She is calling! She is calling each and every soul that He gave His life for to know His love. For it is only in this love that you will find what your soul craves.
  10. R. And they gave to Mary the lifeless body of her precious Son. As she held His baby body tenderly in her arms, she-so weak!-now holds His lifeless body in her arms, covered with blood.

  

 

AUGUST 20, 1996
ROSARY MEDITATIONS FOR
THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES

The Agony in the Garden

  1. Messenger: Always in compliance to the Father’s will, we see this as we mediate on all the mysteries of the rosary, how Jesus and Mary always complied to the will of the Father. To have peace and joy in our lives, we must always comply to the will of the Father. We see Jesus in the garden, His face covered with a bloody sweat, and at any moment He could have stopped everything. He could have withdrawn. He, the Almighty God, all powerful and almighty, about to undergo the cruel Passion and His death, and He sees this before Him. He sees all the sins of men and all the men that would reject the grace that He merited for them, but what did He think of? He saw us. He saw us here this night praying, and it filled His Heart with immense joy. It gave Him so much pleasure in His Heart to know that we would love Him so much, for He is a Person and He longs to be loved by His beloved creatures. We do not comprehend and we do not understand how much Jesus is waiting and longing for our love. Let us, in this rosary, give our love to Him by giving our complete attention to Him and listening to the words that He speaks to our hearts. Let us hear Jesus as He outpours His love to us and teaches us about Himself.
  2. How many times have we felt like we have gone through this Passion too in our lives? Have we felt buckled over and filled with pain? It is so hard sometimes. We are trying so hard in this world, that does not recognize God as it should, to please the Almighty God, and it seems like we are pressed on and pressed on, and we say, "God please help us. Take this cross away." But He allows us to continue to suffer, and we do not understand. It is in the death that there is the resurrection. Constantly in our lives, we live this Paschal mystery of death - resurrection. Let us mediate on the mysteries of this rosary, His suffering and His death, and let us think all through these mysteries how He rose victorious on the third day, how it is through His death that we share in His Divine life. Let us think of how it is to know God and to love Him. It is because of Jesus, because of His Passion and His death, that we are able to partake in His Divine life. Through our little deaths, there is always the resurrection. As we go through our lives, we grow more and more in this life in Him. Mary, the Mother of our Christ-life, is there with us, is leading us deeply into the Heart of her Son.
  3. Treasure beyond all treasures is the Heart of Jesus. The Heart filled with endless, Divine love, the Heart from which the life of God flows. They pierced His Heart with a lance and what came forth was Blood and water. Water - a symbol of Baptism whereby we partake in His Divine life. Blood - a symbol of the Eucharist by which we are fed with the Bread of Life. Oh God, how we love You! Let our hearts be focused only on You in this rosary. As we see Your face covered with Blood, as we see the Blood drop to the ground, as we know the immense mental agony that You suffered in the garden, the suffering to know how You would be rejected and forgotten by those that You gave Your life for, may we know a little bit, just a little, of how much You truly love us. We love You. We love You. We love You, Jesus Christ the Savior of the world.
  4. Song: "I come to you with greatest love, I am your loving Savior. I am your God, I died for you, I come to you this day."
    Messenger: He has come to set brother against brother, mother against son, husband against wife. He is Jesus Christ the Son of God. He gives us His life, and He gives us His love. We must focus totally on His love for us. We must come to Him and give Him our love and give love to one another. This is the commandment that He gives to us - that we love God with our whole hearts, our whole souls, and our whole beings, and we love one another as we love ourselves.
  5. Mental torment, how He suffered mental torment in the garden, but His thoughts were comforted by the love that we give to Him this evening. Put aside all of the thoughts in our hearts that do not pertain to Him, and focus totally on our beloved Savior. He gave His life for us. Will we give Him our minds and our hearts at this moment, and let Him fill us with His grace that we will share more and more in His life? He is giving to us a great treasure at this moment. We must open our hearts and let Him pour His grace into our hearts and into our souls. He is Jesus. He loves us with the most burning love we do not even comprehend. Our souls are thirsty for the love of God. We were created for this love. Nothing on this earth will satisfy this craving, this appetite within. We must put aside all of the thoughts in our minds, in our hearts and focus on Him, for He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. He is Jesus the Son of God, our Savior, our Redeemer, our King, our Lover. Open our hearts, and He will fill our hearts with Divine love. He loves us. He loves us. He loves us.
  6. Hail Mary…
  7. Much of the world is asleep. They are walking in darkness. They are covered with a cloud. Their eyes do not see, and their ears do not hear. He has lifted the veil for us, His chosen ones, and He is giving to us a great grace that we will see with eyes unveiled and hear with ears that are open to His Word. We have been called, and we have been chosen. We will walk into the dark night as lights shining, and His light will radiate from our hearts and from our souls. We must go to Him and let Him bathe us in His love, in His most Sacred Heart.
  8. He is alive. He is alive. He is alive and He lives in our hearts, and He lives in this world as we walk the streets. It is through us that His grace will touch many hearts. We must surrender totally and give ourselves to Him. Give ourselves. Give our hearts to His Mother for she will turn our cold hearts into warm hearts that will unite with His Heart. He loves us, His dear ones. He is telling us the secrets of His Heart, that we will know the true treasure, the treasure that this world has cast aside and is suffering for its ignorance and neglect. See with eyes unveiled He is giving to us great graces. We are His apostles that will carry the flag across this earth, that will carry His flag, full of love, to the world that is hurting and in pain.
  9. And He saw it all. He saw the whole Passion before Him. He knew vividly every pain. He knew every beating, every thorn prick. He knew all that He would suffer. He knew the pain on the cross and three agonizing hours that He would suffer. He knew all the souls that would go to hell despite His suffering. But despite all of this, He gave Himself. He gave Himself for me and He gave Himself for you, knowing full well everything that He would suffer, because of His great love for us, that we would be saved, that we would share in His Divine life, that we might be with Him forever and ever in heaven.
  10. Oh Heart of Jesus, Treasure beyond all treasures, give me the grace to dwell forever in Your Heart.
    Song: 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.

The Scourging at the Pillar

  1. Messenger: They took Him away and they tied Him to the pillar, and they began to beat Him. They took turns beating our beloved Savior. Stand there. Let us picture ourselves tied to the pillar. Picture us. How is the love in our hearts? Would we stand at the pillar and allow men that we loved to tear our flesh, knowing full well that we could stop it at any moment? He stood at the pillar and they tore His Flesh, and His Blood fell to the ground. He withstood this for our sins. Do we know how He suffered for our sins, the sins that we commit towards our brothers, when we talk about our brothers, those that He loves? His way is love. We are His apostles of love. We must be holy. Our hearts must be filled with holiness. We must go into the world and always show others how to love. We cannot talk about others. We must have hearts filled with love. Only in love will our hearts unite to His Heart. People are watching us. We are the stars against the darkest night. Will we shine or will we be dull? In order to shine, our hearts must be likened to His Heart. We must give Him our hearts, and He will turn our hearts to hearts of love.
  2. How we insist and insist to do it our way and try and try and try. Do we know that He is with us at every moment? We must admit our dependency on Him. We must surrender and say, "Jesus, I am totally dependent on You. I want to be loving, but I fall. I am a little baby. I need You to help me to love like You. I cannot do it on my own." We must go to confession, and tell the priest of the times when we talked about our beloved brothers, for He stood at the pillar and He was beaten for our sins, and He was beaten for our brothers that He loves. He is teaching us in the Shepherds of Christ Movement to be of one mind and one heart. Our hearts will unite in the deepest union with His Heart, but we must surrender. We must not let thoughts of bitterness and hatred toward one another creep into our hearts. He is allowing us to suffer, and He is allowing us to watch ourselves fall, for we will come crawling on our knees and beg Him, "to help me." "Help me, God," you will say. "Help me. I want to love like You, but I cannot do it myself."
  3. He was beaten for us. We do not know how sins against our brothers offend Him and hurt Him. How He was beaten for those words that we speak in hatred toward one another. We are the stars that will shine against the darkness. We are His apostles, but our hearts must be pure. We must come to Him for we cannot do this on our own. He will give us the grace to love, to love as He loved, as He loved each and every soul. We are dependent on Him. Watch ourselves fall on our faces and know that we need Him to help us.
  4. Hearts that are haughty and prideful cannot unite to His Heart. There are many this day that are in control, that continue to control with proud hearts. He gives to many authority and power. It is to be used only according to the Father’s will. Our hearts must be soft and gentle as His Heart. We must not let power and control go to our heads. We have authority only as the Father gives us authority.
    This is from the reading today:
        "Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, 
        ‘The Lord Yahweh says this:
        Because your heart has grown proud,
        you thought: I am a god;
        I am divinely enthroned
        far out to sea.
        Though you are human, not divine,
        you have allowed yourself
        to think like God.
        So, you are wiser than Daniel;
        no sage as wise as you!
        By your wisdom and your intelligence
        you have made yourself a fortune,
        you have put gold and silver
        into your treasuries.
        Such is your skill in trading,
        your fortune has continued to increase,
        and your fortune has made your heart
        grow prouder.
        ‘And so, the Lord Yahweh says this:
        Since you have allowed yourself
        to think like God,
        very well, I am going to bring foreigners
        against you,
        the most barbarous of the nations.
        They will draw sword against
        your fine wisdom,
        they will desecrate your splendour,
        they will throw you down into the grave
        and you will die a violent death
        far out to sea.
        Will you still think: I am a god,
        when your slaughterers confront you?
        But you will be human, not divine,
        in the clutches of the ones
        who strike you down!
        You will die like the uncircumcised at the hand of foreigners.
        ‘For I have spoken-declares the Lord Yahweh.    ’" (Ezk. 28:2-10)
  5. He is gentle, and He is kind of heart. He has made men the head of their homes. He has given to the priests authority and a great gift to be called a priest and to offer sacrifice. He has bestowed on men great honor, but within the heart of every man that is given power must be the heart of gentleness and love. He stood at the pillar, and He was beaten and His skin was torn because of the haughty hearts, because of the pride, because of men that wanted their will and not the will of the Father. Everything that we do must be in accordance with the Father’s will. He showed us the way. He stood at the pillar and was beaten because it was the Father’s will. We must strive always to do the will of the Father with love. Love is our primary purpose, to love God above all things and love one another as we love ourselves.
  6. We have been called here. He teaches us. We are called to live the Scriptures and we must answer this call. He is giving to us His grace. Praise and thank our God for the gifts that we are given.
  7. We carry His word into the world. We will be the lights that shine in the darkest night. He stood at the pillar, and He was beaten. He was beaten because of the haughty hearts. Our hearts must be likened to His. We are His apostles that will carry this message into this world. We do not comprehend this great mission. Each one of us have been called here. We must respond to the call for He is asking us to help in the salvation of many souls. What we do will help many souls to be saved. He stood at the pillar, and they tore His flesh. He loves each soul with the most burning love that He allowed them to put Him to death. Will you go into this world? Will we walk fearlessly ahead despite the persecution and the verbal battering that we receive? Will we say to this world, "This is the Almighty God. He is alive this day, and He loves us. He loves us. He loves us. Come. Come to Him, and He will give to us what our hearts desire."?
  8. 1 Co. 12:12-26:
    For as with the human body which is a unity although it has many parts-all the parts of the body, though many, still making up one single body-so it is with Christ. We were baptized into one body in a single Spirit, Jews as well as Greeks, slaves as well as free men, and we were all given the same Spirit to drink. And indeed the body consists not of one member but of many. If the foot were to say, "I am not a hand and so I do not belong to the body," it does not belong to the body any the less for that. Or if the ear were to say, "I am not an eye, and so I do not belong to the body," that would not stop its belonging to the body. If the whole body were just an eye, how would there be any hearing? If the whole body were hearing, how would there be any smelling?

    As it is, God has put all the separate parts into the body as he chose. If they were all the same part, how could it be a body? As it is, the parts are many but the body is one. The eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you," and nor can the head say to the feet, "I have no need of you."

    What is more, it is precisely the parts of the body that seem to be the weakest which are the indispensable ones. It is the parts of the body which we consider least dignified that we surround with the greatest dignity; and our less presentable parts are given greater presentability which our presentable parts do not need. God has composed the body so that greater dignity is given to the parts which were without it, and so that there may not be disagreements inside the body but each part may be equally concerned for all the others. If one part is hurt, all the parts share its pain. And if one part is honoured, all the parts share its joy.
  9. Messenger: We cannot be divided with any person and have peace in our hearts. Our hearts must be hearts of love. We must give up any bitterness and division in our hearts towards any person, for He is God and in His Heart there is not division. He is calling us His apostles of love, His little army that He has called and brought to this room this evening. We must be as the brightest stars shining against the darkened night, for He is Jesus; He is the Almighty God, and He has called us to carry the messages of His burning love to this world, to the priests, to the sisters, to all those that are hurting and in pain. As He stood at the pillar and He was whipped for the sins of men, He knew that we would answer this call. And it was joy to His Heart as the Blood ran down His body. His Heart was comforted, and He was filled with such pleasure because of the work and love that we would give to others, because of the souls that we would help to be saved. We are His stars that will shine in the darkest night. We have been called. We have been chosen, and He has given to us such grace that we can carry out this mission. We can say "no" to Him, but it was there when He was scourged that our "yes" comforted Him. In His greatest agony, He saw us as He hung on the cross. His Body withered and in pain, He saw us, and He saw the love that would go forth from our hearts into this world. He loves us with such love. He gave Himself for love of us and for all souls. Will we help our brothers to know His love?
  10. There will be peace and joy in our hearts when we comply always to the Father’s will. The Father has a plan for us. Jesus is the Way. He is the Truth. He is the Life. We have been called. We have been chosen. Will we answer His call, His apostles of love?

The Crowning with Thorns

  1. Messenger: Think of the minds of men, and think of how Satan presses on the minds of men. Think of how our thoughts can be so influenced by the evil one, how we can worry about what other people think, how we can think others are talking about us, how we can make ourselves miserable by giving in to our thoughts. Jesus showed us His head crowned with thorns. How He suffered such pain to His head, yet we cannot discipline our thoughts. Let us pray for the grace to ask God to help us to keep our thoughts always thoughts of love, of harmony, of oneness with one another.
  2. We must not give in to the seeds of division that Satan plants in our minds. We must say, "I love that person. I love that person." But do we know that we cannot do this on our own? Do we know that we depend totally on Him? He has allowed us to fall on our faces many times. We would be wretched if it was not for His grace. We are dependent on His grace. If we are holy, it is because of the grace that He is giving to us. He is Jesus. We are dependent on Him, His loved ones. We must come to Him and ask for the grace to love. He wants to love through us in this world.
  3. We must come to the Father as the little, dependent child. We must tell Him of our love and tell Him of our needs.
  4. I picture myself in a chair surrounded by those people that I love the most. Do I see all the people I love? And then watch, as those I love the most come to me and pound a crown of thorns into my head, and I feel the blood come from my head and fall on my body.
  5. How many times have we crowned Him with thorns by our thoughts of hatred and anger toward one another. He suffered immense pain because of the thoughts of men. We are His chosen ones. Pray that we do not wound His Heart with thoughts of hatred and bitterness for He loves us. He loves us so much, and it wounds His Heart when we hate one another.
  6. We must model our lives after our Mother. We must look at our Mother, her Heart pure and sinless. It is only in purity that we will unite to Their Hearts.
  7. I go to the Heart of His Mother and mine, and ask the Holy Spirit to sanctify me that I may unite in the deepest union in His Heart.
  8. We do not know the hatred and the bitterness, the thoughts in the hearts and minds of some men. How He suffered so much pain to His head for the ugly, horrible thoughts of mankind. God is offended by the acts of man this day. Help make reparation to Him for our sins and the sins of mankind. Reparation given to His Heart delights Him, His dear ones. God is offended by sinful men.
  9. Song: "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."
    Messenger: Jesus is alive. Jesus is alive. Jesus is alive, and He lives within our hearts.
  10. Song: "Give me Your Heart Oh Jesus, Give me a heart like Yours. Teach me to love You with this new heart, Oh I know little of how to love You. Create in me Oh precious Saviour this special heart."
    Messenger: He loves you. He loves you. He loves you.

The Carrying of the Cross

  1. Messenger: We must carry our crosses. He watches us as we walk, and He places that cross on our backs, but He knows that it is in carrying the cross that we will be given much life. We want to put the cross aside, but it is in carrying the cross that we will grow more and more in our knowledge and love of Him.
  2. He watches us carry the cross, and He watches us move it from shoulder to shoulder. He watches as it slips down our arms and we fall to the ground, and He is so close to us. He stands beside us and He says, "Carry it a little while longer. Carry it a little longer." His dear ones, for we do not know the great gift that we will receive. At the end of the darkest tunnel, there is the brightest light. He is Jesus. He gives to us according to our needs. He gives to us suffering. We must learn to endure the suffering and realize that it is a gift in which we will grow more and more in our life in Him.
  3. My Jesus, I carried the cross and carried the cross and the tunnel was so dark and so black, and I felt as if I would never smile again. But I remember those times, and it was so hard. It was so hard when I felt as if I was dying on the cross with You, and then the light began to steal across the sky, and the glory was beyond all suffering. For after the death, there is the resurrection, our lives, a constant dying and rising in Him.
  4. Help me realize that we are given suffering and that we must endure the suffering until He lifts the suffering. When we are backed up against a wall, we must surrender and accept all that He gives to us and give ourselves to Him, for He is breathing on our necks when we are wrapped up in pain. He is looking in our eyes when we are down under the cross. He is holding our hands when we think He is so far away, and He knows all things. He knows of the great gifts that will come when we endure the sufferings that He is giving to us. There is always the life after the death when we stay rooted in Him. We must carry the cross on our backs, and remember that there is light at the end of the tunnel.
  5. It’s a rocky road that He trod on the way to Calvary, and He knew that it would end in His death, but He knew of the Resurrection. He carried the cross and it bumped along, and He saw into the eyes of His Mother that comforted Him. Look into His eyes. Be wrapped in the embrace of the love of Their two Hearts. In the suffering, we must go to Their Hearts and know that we are never alone and He will never abandon us. He is almighty, all powerful. He is God, and He is with us to the end of time.
  6. And there will come the day when we are lifted into heaven, and we will be wrapped in the Divine embrace, that we will know the embrace of the Almighty God. We must carry our crosses on our backs. Each day, carry the cross and share in the Resurrection. Our lives are this dying and rising, each day.
  7. The world tells us that we should not suffer, but He shows us the way. Look at Him, His face covered with Blood, His head crowned with thorns, the cross bearing down on His back. He could barely move and He fell to the ground, but on the third day He rose victorious.
  8. Thump. Thump. Thump. Hear the cross of Jesus. See the stress on His face. See the Blood as it pours from His Body. See Him fall under the cross. Do you hear the crowd? Do you hear them holler at our beloved Savior? He withstood all of this in silence. Mary, knowing that He was the Almighty God, stood by, her Heart torn within her chest watching her Son suffer. And They are appearing to us this day. They are appearing to tell us of Their love. This is love that Jesus carried the cross, that He gave His Body and His Blood, that He wants the world to know that He is alive and that He loves and wants to be loved by man.
  9. Song: "Give me Your Heart Oh Jesus, Give me a heart like Yours. Teach me to love You with this new heart, Oh I know little of how to love You. Create in me Oh precious Saviour this special heart."
  10. Hail Mary…

The Crucifixion

  1. Messenger: The greatest Sacrifice of all, the Son of God comes to this earth, and He gives Himself as a sacrifice for love of us that we will be saved.
  2. The Sacrifice is sacramentally made present at every Mass, the priest offers this Sacrifice. We must unite in this Sacrifice and give ourselves. As Jesus sacrificed Himself on the cross, we sacrifice ourselves in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in union with Him. It is in uniting in this oneness with Christ that the grace will be released on this earth and that many souls will be saved. This is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. We are not there as spectators. We are there to offer sacrifice, to give ourselves. It is when we give ourselves that grace is outpoured on the earth.
  3. We must pray for holy priests, that priests will be holy in their hearts and unite in such oneness with the Heart of Jesus, that as they celebrate the Mass and offer sacrifice, that they too offer themselves as a sacrifice in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. The Sacrifice of Calvary is sacramentally made present at every Mass.
  4. The grace that was merited by Christ through His life and death on the cross is released in abundant proportion in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. The more we unite in this oneness with the Mass, the more this grace is released. Our world is in a desperate state. We must unite in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, in our morning offering, every morning, uniting each one of our activities with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
  5. Our actions are magnified, and immense amount of grace is released on us and on this world when we unite to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in all of our actions.
  6. All of our actions, when performed in accordance with the Father’s will with love, are heroic actions when we unite them to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, for grace rains on the earth and the people on this earth. Many will be saved as we unite to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in all of our actions and as we become one in Their Hearts. This is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the fountain of God’s life outpoured on the earth. Jesus gave Himself. "This is My Body. This is My Blood." Let us tap into this fountain of His life at every second as we unite every action to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
  7. And they pierced His Heart, and the sacramental life of the Church was born.
  8. His life is a fountain of life pouring out on the earth from the side of Christ.
  9. We must pray for grace. We must unite every morning, in the morning offering, to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass that all our actions are magnified, for His grace will spill upon this earth and it will be lighted with the brightest light. We are His fervent souls that He has called and that He is joining to His Heart. In this oneness, the grace will be released on the earth, and many souls will be saved. Do not underestimate the value of every action we perform when we unite to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in the morning offering. He is Jesus. He came to this world to save each and every soul. Bring Him souls! Bring Him souls! We are His apostles. We will help save many souls. Many will know the fire of His burning love. We cannot underestimate the importance of our lives. We will struggle, and we will suffer. Look at Him as He hung on the cross. He showed us the way. He showed us His way. But in the death there is the resurrection, and His life will spill out on the earth. We must give Him ourselves. He wants our love. He wants us to talk to Him all through the day. When we are worried and troubled, He wants us to say in our hearts, "Jesus, I love You. Jesus, I love You." We must put aside the thoughts that Satan is planting in our heads, the seeds of doubt and division, and say, "Jesus, I love You." Take that moment to spend time with Him, loving Him, and He will strengthen us. He wants our love. He wants us to long and to thirst for His love. He wants us to tell Him we love Him. He is a Person. He wants us to love Him. He gave His life for us. Will we give our hearts to Him?
  10. It is in complying to the will of the Father that we will have peace and joy in our lives. We see Jesus in the arms of His Mother. Jesus complied to the will of His Father to His death, and Mary complied to the will of the Father. She did not shout all through the Passion and holler, "This is God! What is the matter with you?" She was silent and she accepted the suffering, for she knew the Father had a plan, and she knew that she must endure the suffering. She knew that Jesus must die. She complied always to the will of the Father. Jesus complied to the will of the Father to His death. He shows us the way. His way is suffering and life. The world shows us another way. They show us a way that leads our hearts to hunger and to pain. His way is the way to joy, peace, and love. He loves us. He loves us. He loves us. He is Jesus. He gives Himself to us. It is in giving ourselves to Him that we will unite. He gives Himself to us in love, but to become one with Him, we must give ourselves to Him. We will share in His Divine love. Nothing on the face of this earth can compare to this love relationship with His Divine Heart. Love is relationship. He gives Himself to us. We will share in accordance to how much of ourselves we give to Him. He wants our all. He will give us peace, love, and joy in our hearts when we give our hearts to Him. He loves us. To His death, He loved us. He would die for us this day. Will we give Him our hearts?

  

  

JULY 11, 1999
THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES

The Agony in the Garden

Sing in between verses:
    I Am Your Sacred Heart (refrain)
    Song From Jesus (refrain)

  1. Messenger: He was alone in the garden and those He loved had abandoned Him. They slept at that hour.
  2. He knew all that was to happen in the greatest detail.
  3. The utter pain within His Heart to want connection with His beloved ones and they were sleeping.
  4. When I know Jesus and Mary are telling me things and I try to tell others, many ignore me and do not understand the intensity and importance of the message.
  5. Then the consequence of the message follows while all fiddled on their flute and danced a dance of death.
  6. They piped up a tune, they fiddled on the flute and the walls fell down round them.
  7. There will be singing and dancing until that last hour. You know not when the Divine Reaper will come.
  8. Jesus: Oh the agony of it all. I spoke and they did not comprehend, nor did they even hear My voice.
  9. Hell is total isolation, no community and the souls scream a bitter scream of blood-curdling pain.
  10. Hail Mary...

The Scourging at the Pillar

  1. Jesus: Picture a tree on the edge of a waterway. See the rains beating down and the water being carried forcefully down stream. And they stood by the tree and they were washed by the pulling current of the tormenting rains.
  2. The battles of the evil one can be compared to the current of a rain of torrential nature that pulls so hard on the body that it is almost washed hard down stream.
  3. And you hold on so tight to that tree of life and the rains wash and wash you. They press on your body and the current comes with its force to wash you away.
  4. And there is no letting up, it seems. As the rains beat down to hurt the body with their force, the current pulls and the waves of water carry all the debris down stream.
  5. And when it seemed the night was almost over after a day of battle in which you withstood the trickery, the last curtain was raised.
  6. And the evil one moved in for the kill. The soldiers were worn down, their spirits low, their hearts sinking low in their chests. The vision of Christ at the pillar went through their feeble minds and hark the trickery of the evil one throws one last curve as he moves in for the kill.
  7. The stage was set. The anger of the other had laid the trap. The tactics of the evil one would lay a successful path to trick the already weary-laden soul in that last attempt to wipe out the good works and attempts of endurance.
  8. And it happened. A trap is set by the devil, the ancient serpent. The devil has no mercy. His game is to stop the faithful servants DEAD ON THEIR PATH.
  9. Did you help lay a trap despite the warning? Did you lend the discouraging words?
  10. And the darkness never parted, for the night drew nigh carrying a message of anguish from the half-beaten soul.

The Crowning of Thorns

  1. Jesus: And now Satan had tripped the one walking sure-footed on the path. The person struggled to get up.
  2. It was the path of treachery.
  3. What spiraled was his evil snare, his confusing ways, of words not spoken, but assumed by the trickery of the night.
  4. There are hearts of love and tricks of one who aims to steal them all for hell.
  5. She was given a glimpse into that hollow hole: a night of hell, despair, isolation, hatred.
  6. Messenger: A crown of thorns, a heart dedicated to the service of the Lord, a love so great for Him, a thirsting for the Son of God in the Eucharist, the reception of Him in Holy Communion, the wanting of only God, a river full of life.
  7. The night was hell-like, the devil had pressed so hard, the current seemed to wash me away.
  8. I felt the weight of the cross, the thorns that pierced the head, the burning of the wounds on the body where the flesh was torn.
  9. I felt the cry come from within me of total isolation and pain.
  10. And in that reception of the Eucharist and participation in the Mass, there was agony and pain.

The Carrying of the Cross

  1. Messenger: The Mass is to unite all the hearts in oneness. At Mass I had this following experience due to the lack of oneness between the peoples of the earth and with God. It was an experience of the souls in hell that would never know any love, only total isolation, hatred, and misery. The reality of hell was so real. Where once I experienced the ecstasy of oneness with God and all others in acceptance and love, existing in Him, now I experienced separation, hatred and the blackness of a cold night that seemed would last forever.
  2. The weight of the cross, the experience of the weight of the sins of the world was so real to me.
  3. In the Mass I felt I knew the depth and vileness of each sin. I knew more about Christ carrying those ugly, vile, sins with Him to the cross.
  4. The desire to wipe out the evil swelled in my heart. I knew the evil of sins. I knew the evil in a deep degree.
  5. I felt an agony in knowing the vileness of evil and the depth of evil in sinful acts. I had deep insight into the glories of the Almighty God and I experienced the joy of knowing what it was to be existent in Him and His loving embrace.
  6. The Lady warned and they did not hear the warnings.
    It is a battle against Satan, the evil one.
    You must give your heart to God.
  7. Holy Thursday is the Mass of the Last Supper. 
    Jesus: I have allowed you to suffer on Thursday for those who have betrayed Me.
  8. Messenger: You must choose God.
    It is a battle, do you choose God or the evil one? Give your heart to Jesus and Mary, the New Adam and the New Eve.
  9. Jesus: I mounted the cross.
    I am the New Adam, My Mother stood below. She is the New Eve.
  10. Those who give their hearts to Us will be the victors.

The Crucifixion

  1. Messenger: The cross stands as the tree of life against a darkened sky and a darkened world.
  2. The sun glistens in the sky.
  3. Jesus: I am the Light of the World.
    The Light to the darkened night.
    I am God, the SAVIOR of the world.
  4. Choose life.
  5. Do you choose God and God’s side or the evil one, the ancient serpent, who aims to trick you with his vileness to steal your heart and soul forever and take you to the pits of hell?
  6. Song: Song From Jesus
  7. Song: I Am Your Sacred Heart (refrain)
  8. Hail Mary...
  9. Hail Mary...
  10. Hail Mary...
    Song: Glory, Glory, Glory Lord in between decades.

  

  

Jesus speaks:    These sorrowful mysteries have the Imprimatur.

  

  

SORROWFUL MYSTERIES
NOVEMBER 2, 1995

The Agony in the Garden

  1. Let us put ourselves in the presence of God and put aside all the distractions that are in our minds and think only of Jesus.
  2. Kneel with Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane and feel the pain that He suffered, the pain and the anguish that He suffered for all of the sins of all men for all time.
  3. Jesus and Mary are calling us to come to Their Hearts. Their Hearts are filled with love for us.
  4. Buckled over in pain in the garden, we cannot even imagine the anguish in the Heart of Jesus. God is Love.
  5. Look at your world this day. See the murder of the little babies in the womb of their mothers. See how many in America have forgotten that God even exists. Our every breath and our every heartbeat depend on Him.
  6. Out of greatest love for man, Jesus came into this world a little baby in the womb of Mary. He suffered so, all through His Passion. He loves man so much.
  7. Think of how it is when you love someone so much and you are rejected by the person you love. Jesus loved us so much that He came into this world. He suffered all through the Passion. He gave His life on the cross. He is rejected by many of the souls that He came to save.
  8. He is alive this day and He gives Himself to us with such love. He is treated with such indifference and such hatred.
  9. Let us ask God for the grace to know and love Him more. For to know God is to love Him.
  10. Let us pray for the youth of this world, the little children whose hearts have turned to stone at such an early age. Jesus loves them. Even in this dark world, His love is present. He is always with us.

The Scourging at the Pillar

  1. They led Him away as a common criminal and they tied Him securely to the pillar.
  2. They took harsh instruments and they began to beat His body with such instruments that tore His flesh.
  3. See as vividly as you can at the scourged body of Jesus. See Him with the big patches of skin that have been torn from His body. Think of the love that He has for us. He withstood this treatment for love of us.
  4. He loves the children of this world. Let the little children come to Him. He wants them to come to Mass, to the Eucharist, and to be so close to Him.
  5. We go to the Eucharist and we receive Jesus. Let us open up our hearts and tell Him how much we love Him. We need Him in this world that is so dark. We need His light to shine in our hearts and to shine in our world today.
  6. We will be the children of light that shine in this dark world today if we live in Him.
  7. Look into the eyes of the scourged Jesus. See His body covered with wounds and blood. See His face covered with scratches and deep wounds. As we look into His beloved, tender eyes, surrounded by the wounds, do we know a little more of His immense love that He has for us?
  8. Mary loves the little children of this world. She wants us to come to her. She will lead us closer to her beloved Son.
  9. It is in meditating on these Sorrowful Mysteries and thinking about the love that Jesus has for us, that we will realize more and more, how much He truly loves us.
  10. We must come to Him and He will give us His abundant love.

The Crowning with Thorns

  1. Jesus sat on a mock throne and they pounded into His head a sharp crown of piercing thorns.
  2. Think of the wounds of Jesus, all over His body. Now they have wounded His most precious head. Blood ran down His face and into His eyes and into His ears.
  3. The blood ran from His mouth from the blows they gave Him to His head.
  4. It is hard to be in this world today. Many in the world have turned to sin.
  5. Children are laughed at for praying and for saying grace. Many children showing kindness and being nice to each other are made fun of. God wants us to be loving.
  6. Jesus wants us to be tender, kind, and loving. The only way to heaven is to love God and to love one another.
  7. How cold the world is this day. In order to survive, children are being taught to be cold in their hearts. Children's prayers are so powerful. We join together as children in the Shepherds of Christ Movement. We are praying for special graces from God. We want to be closer to Him. We want to be children of the light. We want to shine in the darkness in the schools. We want to tell the children of America about the God we love.
  8. Let us look at the crowned head of Jesus and the face covered with wounds. See His blood. Look at His body, bloodied and bruised. When we are ridiculed and treated unkindly, we must go to His Heart. We must pray for the person that is treating us with cruelty.
  9. We have a loving Mother that is forever with us. We are never alone, not for one moment. Jesus is with us. He is guarding our ways and Mary is guarding her little children of light.
  10. Song: Little Child

Jesus Carries His Cross

  1. A good way to meditate on the Passion is to make the Stations of the Cross. As we stand at the first station, we see how the men around Jesus shouted ugly words at Jesus. They cried out, "'Crucify him!'" (Mk. 15:13) We are ridiculed today for being close to Jesus. Jesus stood. He took all the torture. He is the Almighty God. He suffered for love of us.
  2. Jesus is God. He is love. They gave Him a heavy cross that they put on His back.
  3. He fell to the ground. His head hit the ground. The cross was on His back. Many times we have to suffer. It is in suffering that we are drawn closer to Jesus.
  4. See Jesus and Mary as They look into each other's faces on the way to Calvary. His eyes met her eyes. He saw her sad face covered with tears. She saw His bruised face covered with blood. Jesus and Mary love us so much. They walked this brutal walk to the Crucifixion. They walk with us today. We are never alone. They are always with us. Their Hearts are filled with love.
  5. When we are ridiculed, let us remember how Jesus was treated.
  6. The world tells us that we should look for pleasure. They tell us to put down our crosses. The world says we should not suffer, that we should get rid of our suffering. Jesus came and He walked the walk on the way to Calvary. It is in the sufferings that we receive greater life in Him.
  7. Let us carry the crosses that we are given this day and offer them up to the Father. Many souls will be lost and condemned forever to hell. Jesus and Mary want us to pray very hard for all of our brothers that are suffering and in sin.
  8. Jesus walked the way to Calvary. The women wept over Him. He said to them, "...Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep rather for yourselves and for your children." (Lk. 23:28) Today we should weep for the children of this world, for they are suffering so much. They are not being told about how much God really loves them.
  9. Our prayers as youth are so powerful. Our prayers in this movement are so powerful. Jesus will give us graces when we pray. Jesus loves the children. Jesus and Mary want children to pray. Mary told us at Fatima we must pray the rosary.
  10. Let us thank Jesus for the great gift that He gives to us. He has given us a sharing in His life. He gives Himself to us in the Holy Eucharist. We must treasure each moment that we spend with Him after Communion at Mass.

Jesus Is Crucified and Dies on the Cross

  1. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary are the Two Hearts of greatest love. Mary's heart was invisibly pierced with a sword as she watched them nail her Son's hands and feet to the cross.
  2. Think of how it would be to have your whole body covered with wounds, and your head crowned with thorns, and then to have nails pounded all the way through your hands and your feet.
  3. Jesus held nothing back. He spread His arms. He gave His all that we would know how much He loves us.
  4. As He gave Himself on the cross, He gave His all. He gives Himself to us this day in the Eucharist. The Son of God comes to us and enters our bodies. He is as present as He was the day Mary carried Him in her womb.
  5. Do we realize how much God loves us, that He gives Himself to us in the Holy Eucharist?
  6. Mary stood beneath the cross and watched her Son. He died before her eyes. She saw Him covered with blood and wounded. She stands by us this day and watches us when we are ridiculed for loving God. She wants us to be the children of the light. She wants us to pray to her Spouse, the Holy Spirit. We must pray for the strength to stand up for our belief in God. So many in the world today have forgotten God exists.
  7. At every Mass, let us pray for the grace to unite with Jesus and offer ourselves to the Father. We must try to do whatever He wants us to do. It is in doing His will that we will be happy in our lives today.
  8. Jesus hung on the cross. His body was withered. He gave the last beat of His Heart for love of us.
  9. His last thoughts were for us. He gave us His loving Mother. She is our Mother. She will help us to follow the way of Jesus. She will help us to get to heaven.
  10. He gave Himself. He gives us Himself this day and He gives us His Mother to guide us on our way to everlasting happiness.

Thoughts before the Hail Holy Queen:

Mary loves us with the tenderest motherly love. Many children this day are suffering and are in sin. Some children may go to hell if they continue sinning. Children are being taught such vileness at such an early age. We must pray as we have never prayed before for the children of America. Many do not know of the love of Jesus, her Son. She wants the children to pray. So many children could go to hell if they die today. At Fatima on July 13, 1917, she showed the three children a vision of hell. She told them:

You have seen Hell, where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish, in the world, devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If people do what I tell you, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.22

We must realize that hell is forever. Some children are sinning and do not even care that they sin. Some children's hearts have turned to stone. She wants us, as our Mother, to pray. Children of America, we must pray. On October 13, 1917, Mary appeared to the children, and she said:

I am the Lady of the Rosary. I have come to warn the faithful to amend their lives and to ask pardon for their sins. They must not offend Our Lord any more, for He is already too grievously offended by the sins of men. People must say the Rosary. Let them continue saying it every day.23

Please help us circulate these rosaries to the schools. We must reach the children with the rosary and the consecration.

  

  

SORROWFUL MYSTERIES
JANUARY 11, 1996

The Agony in the Garden

  1. In this rosary, let us open our hearts and pray to be close to Jesus. Let us meditate on His presence, deep within our hearts.
  2. Jesus knew that the time would come when He would suffer and die. He knelt in the garden and He saw before Him all of the sufferings that He would undergo.
  3. Jesus suffered for all the sins of all men, all the men that lived before Him and all the men that lived after Him.
  4. Jesus came to this earth that all men would be with Him someday in heaven. He died because He loves us so much.
  5. Jesus comes with a kind and generous Heart. His Heart is a heart of deep love.
  6. Many hearts in today's world are very cold. We go into the world, we go to school, and we see how hard some men's hearts are. Jesus' way is the way of love.
  7. He remains with us this day truly present in the Holy Eucharist. This is how much He loves us.
  8. He is a Person. He wants to be so close to us. He wants us to realize that He is with us every single second, every single minute, and He wants us to talk to Him all through the day.
  9. As we walk with Him in His Passion, we see Jesus as He suffered. We too will have sufferings in our lives, but as we suffer, we will grow more and more in our love relationship with Jesus.
  10. The world tells us that we should not have any problems. But Jesus comes and shows us the way. He suffered and He died. We, too, will have sufferings in our lives. His way is the way of the cross.

Jesus Is Scourged at the Pillar

  1. Jesus is with us at every second. He wants us to put our trust in Him whenever we are afraid or worried, to talk to Him, and not to be afraid.
  2. They seized Jesus. They tied Him to the pillar and they began to beat His body.
  3. It is in thinking about how Jesus suffered that we realize how much He loves us.
  4. He wants us to think about His Passion. He would suffer for us this day. He loves us so much.
  5. Jesus wants us to tell Him how much we love Him. As we meditate on these mysteries of His life, we see His love for us. We should tell Him how we love Him.
  6. Jesus is God. He loves us more than any human person can love us.
  7. The Father created us to long for God and to need the love of God. Nothing will fill the longing in our hearts for God.  We must go to Him.
  8. The greatest act we can do on this earth is the act of loving God. God created us to know, love, and serve Him.
  9. It is very confusing to live in this world today. Many times we hear the name of Jesus used in vain. His light will shine to the rest of the world through us.
  10. If we ask Jesus, He will give us grace to be closer to Him. We can ask for grace to love Him more. It is an honor to be a member of the Junior Shepherds of Christ Associates for we give our hearts to Jesus and Mary.

The Crowning with Thorns

  1. It is very difficult to be with others when they are being unloving.
  2. Jesus calls us to model our lives after Him, to act as He would act. We should always pray to the Holy Spirit to transform us more and more to be like Jesus.
  3. Jesus shows us that love is giving. Love is not selfish. Love is giving to the other.
  4. It is hard many times to be like Jesus. This is especially hard when others are being so cruel to us.
  5. Jesus never leaves us. He knows our every thought. He knows all the feelings in our hearts. He knows when others persecute us and say nasty things to us. He wants us to know that He is always with us and guarding us.
  6. The world seems heartless many times. Jesus comes as the Sacred Heart and He points to His most Sacred Heart. His Heart is filled with burning love for us.
  7. We look at Jesus and see His head crowned with thorns and His face covered with blood. We know that He loves us so much. He allowed them to pound the thorns into His precious head.
  8. They spit on Him. They ridiculed Him. He took it all. He loved those who did this to Him.
  9. Jesus wants us to love each other. He came to show us how to love. His way was always giving to others.
  10. To His death on the cross, He gave Himself as a sacrifice for love of us.

Jesus Carries His Cross

  1. Jesus' Heart is of burning love. Jesus is all good and all perfect. They stood around Him and they shouted, "...'Crucify him!'" (Mk. 15:13)
  2. They gave a heavy cross to Him. They put it on His back. He could hardly move ahead with the weight of the cross bearing down on Him.
  3. They poked at Him to make Him move faster. The weight of the cross was so heavy that He fell to the ground.
  4. Jesus is always with us. Sometimes our lives are difficult. He is there. He wants us to take the time to tell Him how much we love Him.
  5. When we complain and grumble about our lives, He wants us to tell Him how much we love Him. He is waiting for us to tell Him of our love.
  6. He walked with the cross on His back. His eyes met the eyes of His loving Mother. In that look, there was so much love between Jesus and His Mother.
  7. Mary saw His face covered with blood. She saw Him fall to the ground. When we are suffering, Mary is watching us and loving us as she loved her Son.
  8. In all of our trials and in all of our joys, our Mother Mary walks by our sides as she walked by the side of Jesus while He carried His cross.
  9. Mary loves each one of us with a most personal love. She loves each of us as her little child.
  10. Jesus fell to the ground two more times. His loving Mother was by His side. She could not even lift her arm to help Him. She walks by us as we struggle. Even though we do not feel her by us, she is helping us and guiding us. She wants us to turn to her.

Jesus Is Crucified and Dies on the Cross

  1. Jesus is the Almighty God. At any moment, He could have stopped all the abuse that was given to Him.
  2. They took big gigantic nails and pounded them into the hands of Jesus. They went all the way through His hand to the wooden cross.
  3. They pounded a nail through His feet, all the way through His entire foot. Think of the pain all over His body. His hands and feet were nailed to the cross.
  4. He died on the cross that we would share in His life.
  5. He gave Himself for love of us.
  6. He gives Himself to us today in the Eucharist. He is as present as the day He walked the earth. He is neglected by so many that He loves.
  7. He loves us and He wants us to love Him.
  8. At Communion, Jesus wants us to tell Him how much we love Him.
  9. His Heart is offended by our sins and the sins of men. He wants us to tell Him that we are sorry for our sins and sorry for all the sins of the world. Communion is a good time to help make reparation to God for our sins and the sins of all the world.
  10. He gave Himself that we would have life. He asks us to love Him with our whole heart, with our whole soul, and our whole being.
      

    

SORROWFUL MYSTERIES
JANUARY 18, 1996

The Agony in the Garden

  1. Put yourself in the presence of the Almighty God Who is truly present and in this room. Jesus is longing for us to love Him from our hearts. Make this rosary an act of love to Jesus.
  2. We do not realize how tenderly Jesus loves us. He waits and longs for us to come to be with Him. He wants us to tell Him how much we love Him.
  3. The world is so busy this day. So few people talk about Jesus. He is with us and He is alive.
  4. Think about His Passion. Think about Jesus kneeling in the garden alone. Think about the torture and the sufferings that He would undergo. When we think about these things, we realize more fully His love for us. He loved us so much that He gave His life for us.
  5. He wants the little children to come and to pray. Mary calls her little children to come to His Heart. She wants them to know His love.
  6. He felt agony in His Heart for all of the souls that He loved. For all time He would be rejected and treated so coldly by so many.
  7. He asked His Apostles to wait with Him and they fell asleep. How many of us today fall asleep when Jesus asks us to pray and be with Him?
  8. Jesus wants us to spend time talking to Him all through the day.
  9. Jesus' agony was so great that He sweat blood in the garden.
  10. We were created to know, love, and serve God. The greatest act that we can do on this earth is to love God.

The Scourging at the Pillar

  1. They took Jesus away and they tied Him to a pillar.
  2. They began to beat His precious flesh and Jesus bled.
  3. Think of how it would be to stand by and watch a man be beaten.
  4. Think of how it would be to stand by and to watch your best friend beaten and bloodied before your very eyes.
  5. Think of how it would be to watch as your best friend was beaten for your own offenses.
  6. Jesus, the Son of God, allowed Himself to be beaten for our sins. He could have at any moment stopped His attackers for He was God.
  7. Jesus wants us to meditate on His Passion. It is in meditating on His Passion we know  how much more He loves us.
  8. He loves us so much. He would suffer and die for us today.
  9. Do you have a friend that would give his life for you, that would stand in and allow himself to be beaten for your offenses? Think of how much Jesus loves us, that He was willing to do this for us.
  10. Hail Mary...

The Crowning with Thorns

  1. Our life is very hard sometimes and we struggle. Jesus wants us to think about His life and to see Him as He suffers all through the Passion. He shows us the way, the way is to follow Jesus.
  2. They pounded into Jesus' head sharp thorns.
  3. Jesus is the King of all kings and they crowned Him with sharp piercing thorns.
  4. Do we show love and respect for Jesus, the King of all kings?
  5. Do we realize that Jesus is as present in the tabernacle as He was the day He walked this earth?
  6. How do we treat Jesus? They spit on Jesus. Do we ever walk in front of the tabernacle and ignore Jesus? Jesus wants us to love Him and bow to Him.
  7. We see people talking right before the tabernacle in church. Jesus is waiting for us to come and talk to Him. He is God, truly present, and longing for our love.
  8. The King of kings sits on His throne in the tabernacle in every church. He is ignored and forgotten.
  9. Picture the men pounding the thorns into Jesus' head and spitting on Him. We say, "How could anyone do that to Jesus?"
  10. Jesus is truly present in the tabernacle. Look how He is treated by so many of those He loves.

Jesus Carries His Cross

  1. Many times today we are asked to make sacrifices. We know we should be kind when others are cruel to us. If we follow Jesus, we see He loved those who persecuted Him. He loved those who crowned His head with thorns and who whipped Him at the pillar.
  2. Jesus wants to live in us. He wants to give His love to others through us. We are giving His love to others. We must love when they persecute us.
  3. Many surrounded Jesus. They condemned Jesus to death. We suffer persecution sometimes when we talk about Jesus and His love for all of us. We are ridiculed.
  4. We must pray to the Holy Spirit to be strong soldiers. We must carry the cross as Jesus carried the cross. We must always act in love.
  5. They gave Jesus a heavy cross that He carried on His back.
  6. It was so heavy that He collapsed under the cross.
  7. His Mother walked by His side. She saw her beloved Son fall under the cross and she was not able to help Him.
  8. Her eyes met His eyes and she saw His face covered with blood. He saw her face, so red and filled with such sorrow.
  9. He asks us to carry the cross today. The world tells us that we should not have struggles. Jesus shows us that the way to follow Him is to pick up our crosses. When we are carrying our crosses, we must still act lovingly.
  10. Jesus wants the youth to pray. Jesus wants us to know about His life. He wants us to model our lives after His life. We should ask ourselves if Jesus would act as we are now acting.

A special meditation before the Glory Be:

It is hard to be a young person in the world today. Many people in the world are committing sins. We must pray to God to help us to know, love, and serve Him better.

Jesus fell three times under the weight of the cross.

Jesus Is Crucified and Dies on the Cross

  1. Think of someone pounding nails into our hands and feet!
  2. Jesus was the sacrifice offered to the Father for our sins.
  3. He died that we could share in His life.
  4. It is in Baptism that we become sharers in His divine life.
  5. The price that Jesus paid for this life was the gift of Himself.
  6. Mary stood under the cross and watched her Son give Himself for us.
  7. Mary is the Mother of the Eucharist. We receive Jesus. He gives Himself to us in Holy Communion. This is such a gift. God gives Himself to man.
  8. This is a love relationship between God and man. He gives Himself to us and we give ourselves to Him.
  9. We can trust Jesus. If we look at the crucifix, we see how much Jesus loves us. He came to this earth. He gave Himself as a sacrifice that we would share in His life.
  10. The price He paid was His life. When we go to the Eucharist today, we should tell Him how much we love Him. When we go to the Eucharist today, we should thank Him for dying for us. We should thank Him for giving Himself to us today.

A special meditation before the Glory Be:

This is a rosary from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary given for the youth of this world.

    

  

SORROWFUL MYSTERIES
JANUARY 25, 1996

The Agony in the Garden

  1. We do not know how much Jesus loves us. We know a little about love, but He is love. The more we pray to Him, the more He will teach us about His love for us.
  2. Think of Jesus in the garden, alone in the garden. His Apostles slept and Jesus knew all of the events about to happen, all of His suffering, and His final death on the cross.
  3. We do not fully comprehend how much Jesus loves us. If we meditate on these Sorrowful Mysteries, we will know that He loved us so much that He died for us.
  4. Jesus wants us to come to His Heart and to know His love.
  5. His greatest pain was the pain He suffered to His Heart. He loves each and every soul so much. He is treated with such neglect by many of those He loves.
  6. We are human. He is divine. We do not understand the mind of God. He reveals Himself to us. We then understand more fully the mystery of God's love.
  7. He knelt in the garden. He asked the Apostles to be with Him in this final hour before they took Him away to be scourged and put to death.
  8. The angel appeared and showed Him the cup. He drank of the cup. He gave His life that we would share in His life and be with Him forever in heaven.
  9. He could have said "no". He is the Almighty God. He loves us so much. He gave Himself.
  10. Let us pray to the Holy Spirit to help us to know more the fire of God's love.

A special meditation before the Glory Be:

We were created with a soul. The only thing that feeds the soul is His love.

The Scourging at the Pillar

  1. Heart of Jesus so wounded by the sins of men, enlighten us so that we may see our sins and be sorry for them.
  2. Many times we excuse ourselves when we have been wrong. Every time that we do not tell Jesus that we are sorry, we go further and further from Him.
  3. He knows that we are weak and that we sin. He asks us to come to Him with a heart that is sorry. He will forgive us for our sins.
  4. Jesus was tied to the pillar and beaten by angry men that were full of hatred in their hearts.
  5. We think, "The men who beat Jesus must have had hard hearts!"
  6. Jesus wants us to have a heart of love. The devil gets into our hearts with little sins. Little sins, he tempts us to commit and we know are wrong. If we sin, many times we do not ask Jesus to forgive us.
  7. The world tells us that many times love is only receiving. Jesus comes with a kind and generous Heart and teaches us the true meaning of love.
  8. We see Jesus tied to the pillar, beaten raw from the hatred in the hearts of men. We see that Jesus gave Himself as a sacrifice for the sins of men.
  9. He teaches us that love is giving. The world, many times, tells us that we should fill ourselves with pleasures to make us happy. Jesus tells us that to be happy we must love. We must give love to others.
  10. Hail Mary...

Jesus Is Crowned with Thorns

  1. The devil wants us to walk in darkness. He wants us to think bad thoughts of others.
  2. The head of Jesus was crowned with thorns for the sins of men. Think of the mental anguish that Jesus suffered. He knew that many souls would go to hell even though He suffered for them.
  3. Many souls would refuse the grace that He gives to them and continue their sinful lives.
  4. The greatest gift that we receive is the gift of God's love. It is this love that fills the hungry heart.
  5. Hearts are so hungry. They look for all kinds of things to satisfy them.
  6. How many times have we wanted something and when we receive it, we are left empty inside and look for something else?
  7. Only the love of Jesus fills the starved heart.
  8. Jesus shows us how much He loved us by suffering the crowning to His most precious head. He is the King of all kings. They crowned Him with a crown of sharp piercing thorns.
  9. His Heart is surrounded by thorns for the indifference of men this day.
  10. When men are focused on self, when they are thinking only of themselves, they are not giving as He wants us to give. He is calling us to love God and love each other.

Jesus Carries His Cross

  1. Jesus shows us how He carried His cross. He wants us to carry our crosses this day with joy.
  2. It is hard for the youth to talk about Jesus. Many times we are laughed at by our peers. We must pray to the Holy Spirit. He will guide what we say.
  3. God is one God in three Divine Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. When we are baptized and in the state of grace, They live within us in a special way.
  4. Many times we feel alone, but we are never alone. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are with us in a special way if we are in the state of grace.
  5. Mary loves her precious little children! She wants her children to know the love of her Son, Jesus.
  6. Mary looked into the eyes of her beloved Son on the way to Calvary. She saw His head crowned with thorns and His eyes covered with blood.
  7. Jesus wants us to think about the walk on the way to Calvary. By thinking about this walk, we will realize that He gave Himself because He loves us.
  8. He is a personal God. He is alive this day. He wants to live in our hearts. Let us pray that we receive grace to let Him into our hearts.
  9. Jesus carried the cross with joy. He wants us to carry our crosses with joy. The world tells us that we should fill ourselves with pleasures. Jesus tells us that we should fill our hearts with His love.
  10. All through the day, let us walk with Jesus and Mary. We are never alone. They are with us in all of our trials and all of our joys.

A special meditation before the Glory Be:

Many times we fall, but Jesus forgives us and our sins and asks us to come to Him and tell Him that we love Him. We should tell Him we are sorry for offending Him with our sinful ways.

The Crucifixion of Our Lord on the Cross

  1. See Jesus as He hangs on the cross, His hands and feet pounded with the nails.
  2. We go our willful ways. We think that we are right. We think we should justify ourselves. Jesus, the Son of God, hangs on the cross with the most loving, kind, and humble Heart.
  3. He calls us to offer ourselves to the Father in union with the sacrifice of Himself on the cross.
  4. What pleases God the most is the gift of His Son, sacrificed for love of us.
  5. We do not know the sufferings of Jesus. We do not know the sufferings of our brothers. Our brothers do not know how we suffer. Let us ask Jesus to help us to have a kind and generous heart, a heart that is like His, that we may see how to love more and more like Him.
  6. The world tells us that we should not have problems. Jesus shows us His body as He hung on the cross. Our true peace is in doing what the Father asks us to do.
  7. Song: I Love You Jesus
  8. The Mass is special-we give ourselves in greatest love to Jesus.
  9. Jesus gives Himself to us. Look how He is treated in the Holy Eucharist. He comes to us, Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. This is the time when we can unite with Jesus.
  10. Let us vow everyday to ask God to help us grow more deeply in our life and our love with Him.

  

  

SORROWFUL MYSTERIES
FEBRUARY 1, 1996

The Agony in the Garden

  1. Let us open wide our hearts and let Jesus and Mary work in our hearts to draw us ever closer to Their Hearts. Their Hearts are filled with the greatest love for us.
  2. This is a rosary about the love of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
  3. Let us be so close to Jesus, be with Him as He kneels in the garden. Feel the suffering within the Heart of Jesus.
  4. Do we know how it is to love someone? Someone special? To love them so much. When they speak harsh or cruel words to us, they wound our hearts. The words wound because of our great love for them. Jesus loves us with the deepest love. In the garden, He saw before Him all of those that He loved so dearly. He felt the pain of rejection. He felt such sorrow for those He loved so much that would hate Him.
  5. Do we know what it is like to have heartache, to be bent over, to scream out in pain? Jesus loves with the most perfect love. We see in our world today how He is treated with such indifference and such negligence. Think of how it is when you love someone so dearly. When they are cruel, their words wound. Think of how it was for Jesus Who loves perfectly to know all the neglect and indifference He would receive today. It is there in the garden that He suffered so much pain to His most Sacred Heart, for His great love for men.
  6. He appears in many pictures with His Heart surrounded with thorns. Tomorrow is First Friday. He wants us to help make reparation to His Sacred Heart on this day. He is treated with indifference and disrespect. His name is used in vain by some of those He loves.
  7. He spread His arms and He gave His all on the cross. Jesus saw before Him all that He would suffer. His greatest agonies were not the agonies He suffered to His body but the agonies He suffered to His Heart. With the deepest love for men, He experienced so much pain to His Heart, knowing He would be rejected by His chosen ones.
  8. We think, how could the Apostles have slept? Why weren't they with Jesus? Jesus waits for us today. He is as present today in the tabernacle as He was the day He was in the garden and He is forgotten. He is waiting, longing, and thirsting for us to come and to tell Him of our love for Him.
  9. Oh Jesus, if I could see You, with eyes unveiled, in the tabernacle, I would fall to my face. You are truly the Almighty God, All-powerful, All-magnificent. I do not appreciate the great gift that I am given. You remain and are truly present here with us in the tabernacle.
  10. The Thursday before First Friday is a very important day to Jesus. He loves for us to tell Him of our love. It was during His bitter Passion that He was comforted by the acts of love that we give to Him this day. Thursday before First Friday is a very important night to Him. Let us in this rosary, give our love to our beloved Jesus. Let us love Him with our whole heart. He gave Himself for us.

Jesus Is Scourged at the Pillar

  1. My dear, dear Jesus, how I love You. I think of You tied to the pillar. I see Your unmarred body, and then they begin to beat You. I cry when I picture your wounded body and the deep wounds that You suffered for love of me. Help me, my dear Jesus, to not offend You. I do not wish to cause You pain. I love You, Jesus. Help me to love You more. Give me the grace to give my love to You.
  2. Be there with Jesus as He was whipped at the pillar. Stand there. How do you feel in the pit of your stomach as you watch the men with their angry faces raise their arms and whip our beloved Jesus?
  3. His greatest agonies were not those to His body, but to His Most Sacred Heart that suffered so much anguish because of His great love for men.
  4. Do you see the gash in His arm, the deep gash the men inflicted on our beloved Jesus? As you stand there by Jesus, you are unable to help Him.
  5. It is in meditating on His Passion that we realize His immense love. He suffered for love of us. He would suffer more for His love is endless.
  6. We do not fully comprehend His love. We do not understand the mystery of God's love. Let us pray to Him to outpour greater graces, that we will understand more the mystery of God's love.
  7. Let us thank God for all the great graces that He is giving to us continually.
  8. We give our hearts to Jesus and Mary in the Junior Shepherds of Christ Movement. The more we do this, the greater will be our union with Him. We will go deeper and deeper into His Heart. He wants us to tell Him how much we love Him.
  9. Mary and Jesus want us to consecrate our hearts to Their Hearts. Dear Sacred Heart of Jesus, I give my heart to You. Dear Immaculate Heart of Mary, I give my heart to you.
  10. He calls us to love one another. If I realize that Jesus was beaten at the pillar for my brothers, how should I treat my brothers today? Jesus loves them so much, He withstood torture for them. If I realized how much Jesus loved my brothers, would I treat them differently?

Jesus Is Crowned with Thorns

  1. When we have a problem and we cannot solve it ourselves, Jesus wants us to come to His Heart. He wants us to leave the problem with Him and tell Him of our love.
  2. Satan tries to trick us. He gets us to think about things in our minds that keep us upset. When this happens, Jesus wants us to tell Him of our love.
  3. Sometimes we are so focused on a problem, we do not understand how we can let go of it. But when we look at Jesus, crowned with the crown of thorns, we know how He suffered for love of us.
  4. Many of the sufferings He allows us to endure are mental torments. Let us look at Jesus with the crown on His head and see the blood as it comes down His face. We should ask Him to help us change our thoughts. We should say, " Jesus, I love you!"
  5. He is the King of kings. He sat on a throne and they crowned Him with a crown of sharp piercing thorns.
  6. They clothed Him in a dirty purple robe. They put it over His open wounds and it made them burn.
  7. They spit on Him and they hollered at Him. How Jesus suffered and how we whine when someone says the smallest thing to us. Help us, Jesus, to grow to be more like You.
  8. He knows that we fall. He asks us to tell Him that we are sorry and that we love Him.
  9. When I picture Jesus covered with blood and crowned with thorns, covered with a purple robe, my sufferings do not seem so great.
  10. Kings of kings, help us to always treat You with the greatest respect of love and adoration.

Jesus Carries His Cross

  1. They stood around Jesus. His hands were tied. The crowd hollered, "...'Crucify him!'" (Mk. 15:13)
  2. This is our beloved Jesus that loved us so much that He came into this world. He took on a human body and He withstood this treatment. At any moment, He could have stopped it. In compliance to the Father's will and in greatest love for us, He endured the Passion.
  3. They gave to Him a heavy cross that they put on His back. He scarcely could move with the cross.
  4. He fell to the ground and His chin hit the ground. Do we see Jesus on the ground when we are suffering? Do we know how He suffered for love of us? Jesus shows us the way. The way to Him is the way of the cross. For it is in enduring our crosses, that we share in His life. We share in the Pascal Mystery of death-resurrection. We suffer and we share more fully in His life.
  5. The world tells us that we should not suffer. We see Jesus; we see Him as He walks on the way to Calvary.
  6. Jesus' eyes are filled with blood as He looks at His Mother. Her eyes are red with tears. No expression could show the anguish she felt.
  7. Let us look into the blood covered face of Jesus. Let us kiss His blood covered cheek and tell Him of our love. Let us see Him through the eyes of Mary. She saw Him suffer for love of us. She has come to tell us to go back to her beloved Son.
  8. The Mother of God is most pure and holy. Let us go to her holy heart and dwell there that we may love Jesus with more tender and pure love. Oh, Immaculate Heart of Mary, we consecrate our hearts to you.
  9. He fell and He fell again. We too fall and fall, but what He wants is our love.
  10. Let us be humble and contrite in our hearts. We must tell Jesus how sorry we are that we have offended Him and tell Him how much we love Him.

The Crucifixion

  1. Song: See the Eyes that Look at Mary
  2. Song: Little Baby Hands and Feet
  3. The greatest act that we can perform on this earth is the act of loving God. We were created to know, love, and serve God.
  4. The Holy Eucharist is His sacrament of greatest love. He gives Himself to us today in the Holy Eucharist.
  5. It is a great act of intimacy when divinity unites with humanity.
  6. Let us offer ourselves as a sacrifice to the Father in the Mass united with Jesus. This is a most pleasing sacrifice offered to the Father. Let us die to all of those things that are not like God.
  7. We should offer everything we do everyday to the Father in the morning offering. The morning offerings are available in Appendix A of this book. Cards for adults and children are available from Shepherds of Christ Ministries. We unite all of our actions all through the day with Jesus, in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass being offered throughout the world. This act magnifies everything that we do.
  8. The greatest act of love is when God gives Himself to man. I picture Him hanging on the cross. His face is covered with blood. His arms are spread wide open. This is the love that God has for us. He gave Himself as a sacrifice that we would partake in His life.
  9. The price that He paid is His life that we would share in His divine life. How do we treasure the gift that is given to us by our beloved God?
  10. He was taken down from the cross. His body touched the hands of His beloved Mother. His flesh touched her flesh. This was her Son and now He was lifeless in her arms. These are the Hearts of Jesus and Mary that give to us such love. As Mary walked beside Jesus all through the Passion, she walks forever by our sides in all of our sufferings. She is always taking us deeper and deeper into the Heart of her Son. Let us go to the heart of Mary and dwell there that she may take us to the deepest recesses of His Heart.
      
          

   

SORROWFUL MYSTERIES
FEBRUARY 8, 1996

The Agony in the Garden

  1. Be with Jesus in the garden. Kneel beside Him and feel the pain in His Heart.
  2. How tenderly He loves us, that God came to this earth and gave Himself for love of us.
  3. Jesus is a Person. He loves each one of us with a most personal love.
  4. He is a Divine Person. He loves us more than any human person could love us.
  5. Jesus saw before Him all His suffering.
  6. He knew the sins of all men from all time.
  7. Because of His great love for us and for all men, His Heart was in such pain.
  8. He knows us more than we know and love ourselves.
  9. He is alive this day and He lives in our hearts.
  10. He wants us to love Him at every moment, but He is forgotten and ignored and He is God.

The Scourging at the Pillar

  1. Jesus saw in the garden all the events that would happen and He suffered so He sweat blood.
  2. They led Jesus away as a criminal and they tied Him to a pillar.
  3. At any moment Jesus could have stopped the men, but because of His great love for us, He allowed them to whip Him.
  4. Jesus did this, allowed them to whip Him for me.
  5. Jesus felt alone at the pillar.
  6. Many times when others are cruel to us, we feel alone and very hurt.
  7. Many times when we pray and talk about God in the world today others treat us cruelly.
  8. God is almighty; He controls everything. Our every breath and heartbeat depend on God.
  9. God first loved us and commands us to love Him.
  10. The greatest commandment of all is to love God with our whole heart, our whole soul, and our whole mind.

The Crowning with Thorns

  1. God commands us to love Him first and to love our neighbors.
  2. He suffered for us and paid for our sins by the price of His blood.
  3. Why are men so willful, so full of pride that they ignore the Almighty God Who gives them their very breath?
  4. Look at Jesus, crowned with thorns, His face covered with blood. He suffered because He loves me.
  5. God is offended by the willfulness of men today.
  6. Whether we go to heaven or hell depends on whether we love God and love one another.
  7. Jesus shows us how to love by giving Himself for love of us.
  8. Jesus was crowned with thorns. He was whipped; His body was torn. He suffered this that we would share in His life and go to heaven someday.
  9. Our life here will end soon and we will be somewhere forever and ever. Let us love God and love one another. Then we will share in the great gift He gives us, the gift of eternal life in heaven.
  10. Think of the men that whipped Jesus and crowned Him with thorns. Think how cold their hearts were.

Our Lord Carries His Cross

  1. They stood around Jesus and they hollered at Him, "...'Crucify him!'" (Mk. 15:13)
  2. They gave Jesus a heavy cross laden with all the sins of men from all time. They put it on His shoulder. They made Him carry the cross.
  3. It was so heavy that Jesus could not carry it any longer. He collapsed and fell to the ground.
  4. He got up and tried to move. He saw the red, teared, covered face of His beloved Mother.
  5. She looked into Jesus' tender gentle eyes covered with blood.
  6. This was the little baby that she carried. Now she saw Him covered with blood and wounds.
  7. Mary loves Jesus with the most tender love.
  8. It is in going to the heart of Mary that we will learn to love our beloved Jesus.
  9. The Holy Spirit is the Spouse of Mary.
  10. The Holy Spirit works within the heart of Mary to make us more holy, more like our beloved Jesus.

Jesus, the Son of God, Dies on the Cross

  1. Jesus was nailed to the cross.
  2. Jesus hung on the cross for three hours.
  3. His Mother, Mary, stood beneath the cross in excruciating pain. She watched her Son die.
  4. Before He died, He gave His Mother, Mary, to us as our Mother.
  5. Our Mother, Mary, loves us so much.
  6. She saw Jesus hang and die on the cross. She knows the great love that Jesus has for us.
  7. She wants to mother us. She will help us to love Jesus.
  8. It is important that we give ourselves to her, to her motherly care.
  9. If we want peace and joy in our lives, we must give ourselves to Mary and to her Son.
  10. Mary said at Fatima that she wants us to give our hearts to her and to the Heart of her Son. Mary said at Fatima that she wants us to pray the rosary everyday. If we do this, we will have peace in the world.

  

   

SORROWFUL MYSTERIES
FEBRUARY 24, 1996

The Agony in the Garden

  1. This is a rosary from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary for the youth.
  2. Let us be quiet and focus only on our hearts. Let us think about how God loves us.
  3. Let us go to the garden with Jesus and see Jesus as He kneels there in such pain.
  4. Jesus is a Person. He loves us so much that He came to this earth. The Son of God came to this earth and took on a human body for love of us.
  5. As we think of how Jesus suffered, we will know more and more how much He loves us.
  6. Jesus knelt in the garden. His Heart was in such pain, for He knew all the men, from all time, that would neglect Him and would not even think about Him.
  7. Jesus saw in the garden all the sufferings that He would undergo. He knew clearly everything He would suffer.
  8. Look at Jesus in the garden, His face covered with blood. He was in such agony. He loved all of us and He would be forgotten. He sweat blood.
  9. Do you know how it is when you love someone so much and they are cold and sometimes nasty to you? Think of how Jesus loves us and how He is so forgotten by so many today.
  10. Jesus suffered such agony in His Heart for those that would neglect Him. He received such comfort from the love that we show Him today. Let us open our hearts and let Jesus touch us with His love during this rosary.

Jesus Is Scourged at the Pillar

  1. They led Jesus away and tied Him to a pillar.
  2. Be there with Jesus. See Him so clear. Do you see Jesus? See Him stripped of His clothes and tied to a pillar.
  3. Look at the faces of the angry men with their whips in their hands.
  4. They began to beat Jesus and they whipped Him raw.
  5. Jesus is present this day, the same as the day that He was whipped at the pillar. He loves us so much that He remains with us in the tabernacle.
  6. He waits endless hours for us to come and to be with Him in front of the tabernacle.
  7. Do we realize that this same Jesus is present today in the Holy Eucharist? He is present as the day He walked the earth. He remains under the appearance of bread and wine.
  8. Jesus wants us to look at His scourged body. He would have suffered more for love of us.
  9. His greatest sufferings were not the sufferings He experienced to His body. His body was whipped, crowned with thorns, and hung on the cross. His greatest sufferings were to His Heart from those He loved that forget Him and do not tell Him of their love.
  10. How He loves the youth of this world. How He loves to hear the youth tell Him that they love Him and they want to be close to Him!

Jesus Is Crowned with Thorns

  1. God is love. Jesus is love. He asks us to love Him and to love each other.
  2. Every act that we do toward each other should be an act of loving each other and seeing Jesus in each other.
  3. Do we act like Jesus?
  4. Jesus showed us the way. He shows us how He suffered in the Passion. He still loved to His death.
  5. Think of how it hurts you when someone says something cruel about you.
  6. It is so hard sometimes to love the person that has hurt us. Jesus shows us His Passion. He shows us how He was whipped, stripped of clothes, and crowned with thorns. He shows us how He loved those men that did this to Him.
  7. Jesus shows us His Heart crowned with thorns. When we love, many times we are rejected.
  8. Jesus came, the Almighty God, and gave Himself. He teaches us His ways of love.
  9. The world tells us that we should not suffer, that we should try to make ourselves always feel good. Jesus shows us that He suffered and that He died-the way to Him is through suffering.
  10. Everyday we go through little trials. Everyday these are little sufferings. If we go to Jesus and talk to Him about these trials, we will grow more and more in our life with Jesus.

Jesus Carries His Cross

  1. He asks us to carry the little crosses that we go through everyday. Jesus asks us to love others even though we feel suffering inside.
  2. His message is a message of love. He shows us His Heart. Mary shows us her heart.
  3. Their Hearts were crowned with thorns for the neglect and the indifference that man shows to God today.
  4. Our very life depends on God. He controls our every breath.
  5. When we were baptized, we received a sharing in God's divine life.
  6. If we remain in the state of grace, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit live within us in a special way.
  7. All through the day, Jesus wants us to realize that He is alive in our hearts.
  8. When we are given little crosses throughout the day, when others are cruel to us, when things do not go the way we want them to, Jesus wants us to know that He is alive in our hearts.
  9. In all of the darkness in this world today, Jesus wants us to know His life alive inside of us.
  10. Jesus fell under His cross and we fall too. When we fall, Jesus wants us to tell Him that we are sorry.

Jesus Is Crucified and Dies on the Cross

  1. Jesus wants us to look at the cross and to see Him with His arms outstretched and the nails in His hands. Jesus gave His all because He loved us so much.
  2. Jesus wants us to know that He loves us. He loves us if we are good and he loves us if we are bad. He loves us. He wants us to ask Him for forgiveness for anything that we did wrong and to continue to love Him and to love others.
  3. He was beaten, bloodied, and crowned with thorns. He hung on a cross. His hands were nailed to the cross. His feet were nailed. His greatest agony was not His wounds, but His aching Heart because He loves us so much and is forgotten and ignored.
  4. We must turn to Jesus. He gave His life for us.
  5. Jesus gives us Himself in the Holy Eucharist this day. He wants us to be so close to Him in the Holy Eucharist.
  6. He wants us to think about receiving Holy Communion. We will be with the Person we love so much, Jesus.
  7. As He gave Himself on the cross, He gives Himself to us in the Holy Eucharist.
  8. How it delights Him to have the youth come to Communion and to love Him so fervently.
  9. He wants us to stay with Him after Communion and after Mass and talk to Him.
  10. During this Lent, let us open up our hearts and let Jesus give us His grace that we will grow more and more in His life.

       

    

SORROWFUL MYSTERIES
MARCH 14, 1996

The Agony in the Garden

  1. Do we know that Jesus suffered so much in the garden for love of us?
  2. Jesus saw before Him all the sufferings that He was about to undergo.
  3. Jesus was in so much agony, He sweat blood.
  4. He saw all the sins of all men from all time.
  5. He knew that He would be rejected by those He loved so much.
  6. How tenderly Jesus loves each one of us.
  7. He loved us so much that He came to this earth and took on a human body.
  8. God loved us so much that He took on human flesh.
  9. Jesus is alive this day and He wants us to love Him.
  10. God created us to know, love, and serve Him.

Jesus Is Scourged at the Pillar

  1. Jesus allowed His flesh to be beaten for love of us.
  2. The most important thing in our lives is how we are in our hearts.
  3. Jesus allowed His body to be beaten raw.
  4. We must get in touch with our hearts and our souls.
  5. Jesus' body was covered with wounds and blood, but His Heart was vibrantly filled with burning love.
  6. They whipped and whipped Jesus and He withstood all the treatment.
  7. His way is always love.
  8. His greatest agonies were not the agonies that He suffered to His body, but to His Heart for all those that would reject and hate Him.
  9. Jesus, I want to comfort You with my love. I want to make reparation for my sins and the sins of men.
  10. Let us give Him all our love to help ease some of the pain from those who hate Him.

Jesus Is Crowned with Thorns

  1. Jesus could have stopped the treatment they gave to Him. He is all-powerful and almighty.
  2. Jesus endured the suffering because He knew the Father wanted Him to endure it.
  3. It is in all of the suffering that Jesus rose to new life.
  4. Jesus allows us to suffer today and it brings us closer to Him.
  5. Jesus loved us so much that He was beaten, crowned with thorns, and crucified on a cross for love of us.
  6. Think of how it is when someone does something just for you. Jesus allowed Himself to be beaten, crowned with thorns, and crucified for us.
  7. He comes and He shows us His wounded head and His face covered with blood. He asks us to give Him our love.
  8. When we see all that He suffered for us, can we say "no" to Him and refuse to give Him our love?
  9. Jesus is a Person Who loves us with greater love than any human person can love us.
  10. We cannot fully understand the immensity of God's love.

Jesus Carries His Cross

  1. The mob stood around Jesus and cried out "...'Crucify him!'" (Mk. 15:13)
  2. They gave Him a heavy cross that they placed on His back.
  3. His Heart was filled with such pain to be treated this way by those He loved. What sorrow to see all the men who would treat Him with such hatred when He loved them so much!
  4. In His great pain, He looked into the eyes of His Mother and He was comforted by her deep love for Him.
  5. We comforted Jesus during His Passion with our great love that we give to Him today.
  6. His Mother Mary walked beside Him all through His Passion. She suffered during His Passion. When He fell to the ground, she felt the pain and watched Him.
  7. When they poked at Him, when He bled, she felt the pain.
  8. Mary could not lift a hand to help her Son. Her heart was filled with such agony.
  9. Jesus was covered with wounds and blood. Mary suffered deeply within her heart.
  10. There is such love between the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Let us be focused on the love of Their two Hearts.

Jesus Is Crucified and Dies on the Cross

  1. Imagine what it would be like to have nails pounded into your hands against the wood cross.
  2. Jesus spread His arms for love of us.
  3. Jesus held nothing back. He gave His all, His blood, His flesh, His life.
  4. He gives Himself today in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. We receive the Body and Blood of Jesus.
  5. Graces are released at every Mass.
  6. There is so much grace given through the Eucharist.
  7. Jesus wants us to give Him our hearts.
  8. Jesus loves us with such love that He gave Himself as a sacrifice on the cross.
  9. Jesus wants to take care of us. We must give ourselves to Him.
  10. Let us ask Him to fill our hearts with His love.
        

                                          

SORROWFUL MYSTERIES
JANUARY 26, 1995

The Agony in the Garden

  1. Be with Jesus as He kneels in the garden of Gethsemane.
  2. Be there in the night. Hear the sounds of the night. See Jesus as He kneels in such agony. He sees before Him all the sufferings that He is about to undergo.
  3. With greatest love for each one of us, the Father sent into this world His only-begotten Son.
  4. Jesus took on a human nature with greatest love for each one of us. He now kneels in the garden, His Heart in such anguish. He, Who is love, sees before Him all the souls from all time who would neglect Him and treat Him so indifferently. They would treat Him so indifferently despite all His suffering and love that His most tender Heart has for each and every soul.
  5. He saw before Him all the souls that would be condemned to eternal damnation despite the fact that He suffered and died for love of each soul.
  6. The anguish that He suffered in the garden, the agonies that He suffered in His Most Sacred Heart, were far greater than the physical wounds that He would soon bear throughout His entire Passion. He is love, with a Heart burning for love of all souls: the souls that neglect Him, the souls that do not even think of Him, and the souls that go through their lives, have nothing to do with Jesus, and then are condemned forever and ever to the fires of hell.
  7. Jesus remains with us this very day, the same as the day that He knelt in the garden. He remains with us in His divinity and humanity. With greatest love for each one of us, He longs, He thirsts, He waits for us to come and be with Him in front of the tabernacle.
  8. His suffering in the garden was so great that His sweat became as great drops of blood upon the ground.
  9. He went to the Apostles and asked them, "Had you not the strength to stay awake one hour?" (Mk. 14:37) How many times does Jesus ask us this day if we do not have one hour to spend with Him? There are twenty-four hours in a day, but how many times during the day do we say "no" to Jesus and that we are too busy? His Heart waits and waits for us. At every second, His Heart is an endless, burning furnace of love. Whether we think of Him or not, He is always ablaze, on fire for us, loving us, and waiting for us to allow Him to be our constant companion.
  10. God, grant to us the grace to know and to love You more so that we can more fully realize that You truly are God-made-man in Jesus Christ. You come to this earth in greatest love for each one of us. You long and wait for our love. You want to give us Your love.

The Scourging at the Pillar

  1. His Heart is on fire for each one of His precious souls. He longs for us to come and be with Him. As He suffered all through His Passion, the greatest agonies were not the agonies that He suffered to His body, the scourging at the pillar and the tearing of His flesh. The greatest agonies were those that He endured to His most tender Heart, which is a Heart of love waiting to share with each and every one of his precious souls. He calls us this day to spread His love to the world that is in pain. He calls us to be His soldiers, to spread the love of His Most Sacred Heart to the souls that are suffering and in pain. We are His mighty warriors in a world that is cold and has forgotten God. We must be strong soldiers, for this world will persecute us as they persecuted Him. He is sending us into the world, armed with hearts filled with His love, to spread His love along the highways and the byways in every corner of this earth.
  2. They tied Him to a pillar and they beat His flesh. His once unblemished back was now an open wound. He was full of blood, but His worst agony was the agony that He endured in His Most Sacred Heart, the Heart which gives us a sharing in His divine love and His divine life, is rejected by many and is treated coldly.
  3. He loved Judas so dearly and Judas betrayed Him with a kiss. How many of His dear souls come to Him with hearts that are hot and cold? He wants us to come to Him with hearts full of love. We must have hearts that will unite with His, that will become one with His, and that will give to this world His love for our hurting brothers. He was scourged at the pillar for love of our brothers. Listen to the blows that they gave to Him. They are the blows that He suffered for our brothers. How can we treat our brothers badly when they tore His flesh, and out of greatest love He withstood all this treatment for our beloved brothers?
  4. He gave His all. He stood there. He was beaten. He was bruised. He was bloodied. He came to show you the way, the way to love. They persecuted Him. He loved those who persecuted Him. We must be kind in our hearts. We must give love. He is a burning furnace of endless love. His power never goes out. His love is never spent. Come to His Most Sacred Heart and He will fill your heart with endless love.
  5. Song: "Lord, let me walk that last mile in Your shoes, under the weight of the wood..."
  6. See in the dim light as He stood at the pillar. See the men with their angry faces, with hatred in their hearts, as they pound His flesh.
  7. When they persecute us and hate us because we are not of this world, we must endure all out of greatest love. His way is always love. He came to show us the way, the way to eternal happiness. It is only in loving one another that we will merit eternal life. He asks us for two things. He asks us to love God and to love one another.
  8. We must go to His Eucharistic Heart! It will radiate to all those that we come in contact with, for the power of the Almighty God is a power that cannot be contained. It will radiate from our beings to all those we touch.
  9. When He walked from the pillar, the earth was marked by His bloody footprints.
  10. As the earth was marked by His bloody footprints, I ask you to make a mark on this world, to spread to this world the love of His Most Sacred Heart.

The Crowning with Thorns

  1. His body was battered, bruised, and bloodied. They covered Him with a dirty purple robe that they put on top of His wounds. He held a scepter and they crowned Him with a sharp crown of piercing thorns.
  2. Do you know what it is like to get a little splinter in your hand? They pounded into Jesus' most precious head thorns that were thick and piercing until the blood ran down His face, into His eyes, and into His ears. His hair was matted. This was truly the King of kings, the Son of God! He was crowned with a crown of piercing thorns!
  3. Song: "Only this I want, but to know the Lord, and to bear His cross, so to wear the crown He wore..."
  4. They spit on Him and they hollered slanders at Him. He sat, as they did this to Him, in silence.
  5. He truly came into this world, the Son of God, to show us the way. He sat in silence. Think of how we respond to those who come to us with hatred in their hearts. His way is the way of love. We must love all of our brothers as He has loved.
  6. The Father created each and every child-so precious, so unique-with such love.
  7. He loves us this day.
  8. Think of how it is to love so much and to be neglected.
  9. Pray to the Spirit to open your heart to the fire of His love.
  10. We are blind men! We do not see the love that He outpours to us. We see little incidental things. His Heart is overflowing with divine love and with divine life. He wants to give us His life! He gives us Himself in the Eucharist. Nothing on this earth can compare to His divine love and His divine life that He wants to give to us!

The Carrying of the Cross

  1. See Jesus with His hands tied, with a look of perfect peace on His face. See those men who are surrounding Jesus, with their sharp instruments poking at Him, with anger and hatred on their faces-such anger and hatred that they condemned Jesus to death on a cross!
  2. They gave to Him a heavy cross that they put on His most precious shoulder. He carried the weight of the sins of the world on His back. This is the love that He has for each and every man, that He carries the cross with our sins on His back.
  3. He is no less present in the Eucharist this day than the day He walked to Calvary with His cross on His back. "Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had said the blessing he broke it and gave it to the disciples. 'Take it and eat,' he said, 'this is my body.' Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he handed it to them saying, 'Drink from this, all of you, for this is my blood, the blood of the covenant, poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins." (Mt. 26:26-28)
  4. He peered into the eyes of His beloved Mother and she peered into His eyes. There was joy at the meeting of the eyes, but such sorrow deep within each of Their Hearts. They knew each other deeply in Their Hearts and how she had held Him and loved Him! He saw her in such suffering! He saw her face with tears. He saw His most precious Mother torn so deeply in her heart. It is the love of Their Hearts for us that has led us to this place. We must spread His love throughout the world. He would carry His cross this day for us because He loves us so dearly. God came to earth and was born a man out of greatest love for us! We do not see clearly. We do not come to His altar to receive the life that He wants to outpour to us. We are so blind! Pray for grace! Pray for His life, to know and love all that we do not see. We do not see because we do not come to His altar, because we do not spend time with Him!
  5. Mary comes to lead us to His most tender Heart. He asks us to answer the call, the call of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to be joined ever closer to Their Hearts brimming over with love for each and every soul.
  6. Jesus fell under His cross. The weight was so heavy! He did not give up His cross. He willingly carried this cross for love of us!
  7. It is in living in the Father's will that you will be the happiest. To His very death He followed the will of the Father.
  8. Song: See the Eyes that Look at Mary
  9. See through the eyes of Mary. She peered into Jesus' eyes on Calvary. See through her eyes the love of her precious Son, Jesus Christ. See that He truly walked to Calvary, that He was truly scourged and crowned with thorns, and that He did it for greatest love of each of us. He calls us to come and be with Him and to spread His love to this world.
  10. Song: Little Baby Hands and Feet

The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus

  1. See the little hands of Jesus. See the little feet of Jesus as Mary holds Him as a baby. Now she stands and watches as they pound nails through His most precious hands into the cross. The anguish in her heart is so deep! "and a sword will pierce your soul too-so that the secret thoughts of many may be laid bare." (Lk. 2:35)
  2. Mary does not bear the wounds and the blood, as Jesus does, but Mary's heart is torn to see her beloved Son, battered, bruised and bloody, and now hanging on the cross!
  3. Be there! The sky has turned dark as Jesus hangs for three agonizing hours on the cross. His body is humped over and He is so weak! He gives His blood. He spreads His arms. He gives His all for love of each and every one of us. He truly gives His flesh. He gives His blood because He loves us so much! He was born a human! He was born on bare wood in a stable and now He hangs on a cross!
  4. His blood was spent so that we could inherit eternal life.
  5. As He gave His life on the cross, so He gives us His life this day in the Eucharist!
  6. Song: "I am the Bread of Life. He who comes to Me shall not hunger and who believes in Me shall not thirst. No one can come to Me unless the Father beckons, and I will raise you up, and I will raise you up, and I will raise you up on the last day."
  7. He gave the last beat of His Heart. He gave His last breath. He gave His all. His hands were punctured with nails. His head was pierced with thorns. He gave the inside of His body as well as the outside of His body! He asks us, in greatest love, to surrender ourselves to Him, for He truly gave His all for love of us. If He loved us so much that He gave His body, His blood, His all for each and every one of us, would He not give us from His abundance this day? He comes with such love. He is truly Jesus Christ, the Son of God, in our midst this day in the Eucharist, waiting for us to come and be with Him. He truly loves with a Heart of divine love. He truly has divine life that He outpours to each and every soul. He wants so much to share Himself with each one of us! If we come to Him, He will give us His divine love and His divine life. He loves us so dearly! We should come for His love and give this love to the world. A heart fixed on the love of God can move a mountain. We should live in the Father's will, to spread His love throughout the world. If we say "no", this world will suffer. We are His chosen ones, each and every soul. We must come, be filled with the love He pours out to us, and love our fellow men. We must love our brothers when they hate us and persecute us. We must love them as He loved those who put Him to death. We must open our hearts, rid ourselves of all impurities, and to pray to the Spirit to sanctify our hearts and clean out the debris of hatred and anger. We must come to His tabernacle with hearts that are open and pure so He can fill us with His divine love. It is in uniting with Him that He can operate from us and love this world as He so desire. This is His calling for us this day. Can we say "no"? See Him hanging on the cross. This is how He loved us!
  8. Mary stood under the cross and she saw Her beloved Son as He took His last breath.
  9. Jesus gave His life for each and every soul. Mary wants them to know His love. It is only in His love that we will find what our souls craves.
  10. They gave to Mary the lifeless body of her precious Son. As she held His baby body tenderly in her arms, she, so weak, now holds His lifeless body in her arms, covered with blood.
      

  

Jesus speaks:    These mysteries are for little people and elderly.
    


  

SORROWFUL MYSTERIES
MARCH 20, 1999

(Between decades sing A Song from Jesus)

The Agony in the Garden

  1. Jesus suffered in the garden because men did not obey God.
  2. Jesus took the Apostles Peter, James and John with Him.
  3. Jesus suffered so much, He sweat Blood.
  4. The Apostles slept when Jesus told them to pray.
  5. Today there is much evil in the world.
  6. We must pray.
  7. God listens to our prayers.
  8. God is Almighty.
  9. Jesus is God the Son.
  10. Jesus gives Himself to us in the Mass.

The Scourging at the Pillar

  1. The angry men arrested Jesus.
  2. These men condemned Jesus to death for telling the truth.
  3. The men tied Jesus to a pillar.
  4. The men hit Jesus with whips.
  5. Jesus bled.
  6. Jesus shed His Blood for us that we would be saved.
  7. Jesus loves us so much.
  8. Jesus suffered so much anguish to His Heart.
  9. When you love someone so much you want them to love you, too.
  10. God created us. He wants us to love Him.

The Crowning with Thorns

  1. Jesus is the King of heaven and earth.
  2. Jesus is the most loving King.
  3. The Son came to earth to save us.
  4. The men did not honor Jesus as King.
  5. The men beat Jesus and spit on Him.
  6. The men dressed Jesus in a scarlet robe and made fun of Him as a King.
  7. The men made a crown of piercing thorns and, pounded it into Jesus’ head.
  8. Jesus suffered for our sins.
  9. Jesus paid the price for our sins.
  10. We must tell Jesus we are sorry when we sin.

The Carrying of the Cross

  1. They gave Jesus a heavy cross to carry.
  2. The men told Jesus He had to die.
  3. Jesus accepted the cross willingly.
  4. Jesus did this because it was His Fathers will.
  5. Jesus did this because He loves us so much.
  6. Jesus’ pain in His Heart was worse than His pain in His Body.
  7. Jesus wants us to love Him.
  8. Jesus shows us that we will suffer in our lives.
  9. We must do what God wants us to do. Sometimes we suffer in our lives.
  10. Jesus wants us to love Him more than anything on earth.

The Crucifixion

  1. Jesus went to the hill of Calvary.
  2. They stripped Jesus of His clothes.
  3. They used gigantic nails and nailed Him to the big cross.
  4. They raised up the cross.
  5. Jesus hung on that tree for a long time until He died.
  6. Jesus gave His life for us.
  7. When we are lonely, we should look at Jesus on the cross.
  8. Jesus loved us so much, He died for us.
  9. Jesus wants us to love each other.
  10. Jesus is love.

    

  

THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES
MARCH 20, 1999

Sing the song A Song from Jesus in between decades. (refrain only)

The Agony in the Garden

  1. Jesus is God, He comes to save us.
  2. Before Jesus rose from the dead, He had to suffer so much.
  3. Jesus suffered for us. He loves us so much.
  4. Help us Jesus to realize Your love."
  5. An angel appeared to Jesus to comfort Him.
  6. Jesus knew He would die.
  7. Jesus knows all things, He is God.
  8. Jesus knew all He would suffer.
  9. Jesus went willingly to His suffering and death on the cross.
  10. Jesus asks us to accept our sufferings.

The Scourging at the Pillar

  1. The men bound Jesus at the pillar.
  2. Jesus could have broke the bonds.
  3. It is silly to think they could tie God down.
  4. God has all the power.
  5. When we try to see Jesus being beaten at the pillar, we will know more about His love for us.
  6. The men tore His flesh.
  7. Think of someone you love being beaten.
  8. It is awful to think of how they treated Jesus.
  9. Many times people treat us mean.
  10. It hurts us a lot when people are mean to us.

The Crowning with Thorns

  1. The precious head of Jesus was crowned with thorns.
  2. Kings wear crowns.
  3. Jesus is the King of heaven and earth.
  4. The men didn't believe Jesus was a King.
  5. The men made fun of Jesus and crowned Him with thorns.
  6. Many times our friends say things that make fun of us.
  7. Sometimes others laugh when others are mean.
  8. It is very hurtful when people laugh at us.
  9. We do not like people to hurt us, we want to be loved.
  10. We must not say mean things to others.

The Carrying of the Cross

  1. See Jesus carrying a big cross on His back.
  2. The men gave Jesus the cross and made Him carry it.
  3. The cross Jesus carried was heavy with the sins of the world.
  4. Jesus gives us crosses to carry.
  5. Many crosses we must carry are heavy.
  6. We cannot have everything we want.
  7. Many times we suffer as little children.
  8. Sometimes people do not understand our feelings.
  9. Sometimes we are sick and need something and they do not understand.
  10. This is a cross,when we hurt in our heart and can't change it.

The Crucifixion

  1. The men hung Jesus on a cross.
  2. "Above him there was an inscription: 'This is the King of the Jews'." (Lk 23:38)
  3. Jesus willingly gave His life for us.
  4. Jesus paid the price for our sins.
  5. On the cross, Jesus forgave the men who hurt Him.
  6. As Jesus hung on the cross, He gave us His Mother to be our Mother.
  7. Mary stood beneath the cross with His Apostle, John.
  8. Jesus loved John very much.
  9. Jesus loves us so much, He died for us.
  10. See Jesus hanging on the cross and thank Him for His love for us.

  

  

THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES
APRIL 18, 1999

The Agony in the Garden

  1. Jesus sweat Blood.
  2. Jesus saw all men's sins.
  3. Jesus knew all the hatred in their hearts.
  4. Jesus was willing to suffer for men.
  5. Jesus allowed Himself to be handed over.
  6. Jesus knew all the suffering of the Passion.
  7. His Apostles slept.
  8. Jesus knew Judas would betray Him.
  9. Jesus was comforted by the angel.
  10. Jesus is one with the Father and the Holy Spirit.

The Scourging at the Pillar

  1. Jesus was whipped.
  2. Jesus was hated by those He loved.
  3. Jesus suffered in His Heart.
  4. Jesus suffered for the sins of men.
  5. Jesus allowed Himself to be bound at the pillar.
  6. Jesus allowed Himself to be scourged for our sins.
  7. God has all the power.
  8. (John 3:16)
    For this is how God loved the world:
    he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.
  9. Jesus is Lord.
  10. Jesus is King. He was beaten for our sins.

The Crowning of Thorns

  1. Jesus was crowned with thorns.
  2. Jesus was mocked as King.
  3. Jesus was spit on.
  4. Jesus was given a purple robe.
  5. Jesus was given a reed.
  6. Jesus was laughed at.
  7. Jesus was ridiculed.
  8. Jesus allowed this treatment.
  9. Jesus has all the power.
  10. Jesus is King.

The Carrying of the Cross

  1. Jesus is the humble Servant.
  2. Jesus came to serve.
  3. Jesus washed their feet.
  4. Jesus knelt down to do this.
  5. Many men today want to be on top of everyone.
  6. Jesus was stooped over with the cross on His back.
  7. Jesus is humble.
  8. Mary is humble.
  9. Jesus fell to the ground, three times.
  10. Jesus has all the power. He allowed Himself to be treated this way.

The Crucifixion

  1. Jesus is the King of heaven and earth.
  2. The King of kings.
  3. Jesus mounted the throne.
  4. Jesus gave Himself as the Sacrifice.
  5. It was the Blood of the innocent One that was shed.
  6. Son-of-God, Son-of-Man, was put to death.
  7. Jesus, the Victor, wore a crown of thorns.
  8. Jesus, the New Adam, dies.
  9. Jesus was stripped of His garments.
  10. Jesus born bare in a stable dies on the bare tree.
    He was nailed to the cross.
    He was stripped bare.
    He looked as if He had lost, but it was the greatest Sacrifice offered.
    The Son of God dies on the cross.
    It was the Blood of a Divine Person that was shed.
    ALLELUIA - GOD IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD. ALLELUIA.
    DEATH HAS NO POWER OVER JESUS.

  

  

THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES
APRIL 19, 1999

Sing between decades: A Song From Jesus; refrain

The Agony in the Garden

  1. Jesus sweat Blood in the garden.
  2. Men sin. This offends God.
  3. We must make reparation to God for our sins and the sins of men.
  4. Jesus loved us so much He gave Himself as a Sacrifice for us.
  5. Jesus knew the sins of all men in the garden.
  6. Jesus knew He would suffer.
  7. Jesus prayed in the garden.
  8. ...My Father, he said, if it is possible, let this cup pass me by. Nevertheless, let it be as you, not I, would have it. (Mt. 26:39)
  9. Again, a second time, he went away and prayed: My Father, he said, if this cup cannot pass by, but I must drink it, your will be done! (Mt. 26:42)
  10. Jesus suffered so because He loves us so much.

  


    

The Scourging at the Pillar

  1. The men beat Jesus.
  2. The men wanted to hurt Him.
  3. The men acted in hatred.
  4. Jesus loved them even when they hit Him.
  5. Jesus wants us to love everyone.
  6. We can hate the sins of others.
  7. But we must love the sinners.
  8. Always, always love.
  9. The men beat Him and tore His flesh.
  10. But Jesus’ greatest pain was to His Sacred Heart.
      

  

The Crowning with Thorns

  1. Jesus is the King of heaven and earth.
  2. Jesus was given a crown of thorns.
  3. Jesus suffered when the thorns were pounded into His head.
  4. Many people today sin with their heads.
  5. Talking against people in hatred is not Gods will.
  6. Lying is a sin.
  7. Hitting someone’s body in hatred is not right.
  8. Wanting someone to suffer persecution is wrong.
  9. Looking at bad movies is wrong.
  10. Willingly listening to others that are disrespecting God is wrong.

  

 
  

The Carrying of the Cross

  1. God does not want us to constantly criticize each other.
  2. God wants us to live our life loving each other.
  3. Many times people sin.
  4. We should carefully choose our friends.
  5. We should try to avoid sin.
  6. When children act sinfully, if we can, we should walk away.
  7. Jesus wants us to be holy.
  8. There are many untruths in the world.
  9. Ask Mary to lead us to Jesus.
  10. We must pick up our cross and follow our Master.

  


  

The Crucifixion

  1. Jesus hung on the cross.
  2. Jesus hung a long time before He died.
  3. Jesus was patient.
  4. We must suffer our crosses in patience.
  5. Jesus wants us to be patient.
  6. And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, Eli, eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? (Mt. 27:46)
  7. The men divided Jesus’ garments.
  8. The men had Jesus put to death.
  9. Jesus was buried in a tomb.
  10. Mary wept outside the tomb.

  

  

THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES
APRIL 29, 1999

The Agony in the Garden

  1. Jesus took the Apostles, Peter, James and John with Him to the garden.
  2. The Apostles slept.
  3. Jesus knew He was going to die.
  4. Jesus wanted the Apostles to be awake and with Him.
  5. The angel appeared and comforted Him.
  6. Jesus asked them if they couldn't stay awake one hour.
  7. The Apostles still slept.
  8. Jesus knew every whipping and cruelty that would happen.
  9. Jesus suffered so much that His sweat was Blood.
  10. Jesus' thoughts were for us.

The Scourging at the Pillar

  1. Look at the beaten Body of our beloved Savior.
  2. Look at His hands and arms.
  3. See the wounds on His flesh.
  4. See the Blood go into the air.
  5. Some days we feel we are beaten.
  6. Life is a struggle.
  7. We want to be happy.
  8. We must learn to deal truthfully with our world.
  9. We must try to not sin.
  10. We must obey the Ten Commandments.

The Crowning of Thorns

  1. See the Blood come down His face.
  2. See the pointy thorns go into His head.
  3. Feel the robe on your flesh.
  4. Listen to the men mocking Our Lord.
  5. See men spitting on Jesus.
  6. See Jesus accept all the treatment.
  7. Stand with Jesus and experience the abuse.
  8. Hear the noisy, loud, men laughing as they beat Jesus.
  9. Hear the men laugh and mock Jesus.
  10. Whisper to Jesus how you love Him.

The Carrying of the Cross

  1. Feel the heavy cross on your back.
  2. Feel the deep love He has for each and every soul.
  3. Be there, stand beside Mary.
  4. Look at Mary as she suffers.
  5. Is her face red?
  6. Does Mary look weak?
  7. Do you want to help her?
  8. Look into Jesus' face with Mary.
  9. Do you want to help Jesus?
  10. Whisper words of love in His ear.

The Crucifixion

  1. See the BIG CROSS.
  2. See the beaten Body of the Lord.
  3. We also suffer in our bodies.
  4. Take time to get the proper rest.
  5. The devil will try to divide us from those we love.
  6. Jesus died for all.
  7. We are His beloved ones.
  8. Be at the crucifixion, see the darkened sky.
  9. Here crying about you.
  10. Tell God we are truly sorry for offending Him and others and ask Him for forgiveness for our sins.


    

    

Stations of the Cross
FEBRUARY 22, 1995
  
The First Station
JESUS IS CONDEMNED TO DEATH

Jesus: My dear child, with angry hearts and hatred on their faces, they poked at Me and condemned Me to death. I stood so silent, My hands tied, in perfect peace, because I knew the Father's love. I knew the Father's Will. You too will stand your trials in perfect peace, the more you realize the immense love the Father, Son and Holy Spirit have for you. Pray to the Spirit to transform you more and more into My image and, through this transformation, you will be led ever closer to the Father. Oh, how I love you!
   
  
The Second Station
THEY GIVE JESUS THE CROSS

Jesus: They gave Me a heavy cross, laden with the sins of the world. They placed it on My shoulder. It was so heavy I felt as if My shoulder would break. I ask you to carry little crosses, to experience little pains. I could not remove this cross from My shoulder. The weight was unbearable. It is through My suffering and death that you receive new life. It is through your sufferings this day that you will grow in your life with Me. Oh, child, I loved you so much that I took up the cross of salvation. I love you. Please realize that I am talking to you here. To My death I loved you. Oh, how I love you!
  
  
 The Third Station
JESUS FALLS THE FIRST TIME

Jesus: The cross was so heavy I could hardly walk. I held on to My cross for greatest love of you and in compliance with the Will of My Father. It became so hard to walk! The cross was so heavy! I fell. I fell and the cross fell on Me. They poked at Me, they struck Me, they demanded I get up. The pain from the instruments they used to poke Me and strike Me was so great! I somehow managed to get up.

When you fall under the weight of your cross, come to My Eucharistic Heart. I am no less present in the tabernacle and in the Eucharist than on the day I carried My cross. I wait with the same love that I had for you when I carried this cross and suffered such agony. Oh, how I love you!
  
  
The Fourth Station
JESUS AND MARY MEET

Jesus: I saw the face of My beautiful Mother. She was weak, her face reddened and full of tears. I saw her tender heart, her love, her anguish, her pain. I saw My dear Mother Mary. My Heart was comforted by the sight of her, but torn by her suffering.

Mary: As I looked into the eyes of my beloved Son, I saw His love. His head, bleeding and wounded. His body weak. His clothes covered with blood. I looked into His eyes and I saw His love for you. I call out to you today. I appear today with a face full of anguish and tears. I appear to call you back to the love of my Son. See through my eyes, as I peer into His eyes, the love He has for you this day to give of Himself for you. Oh, He loves you so much, my little children. See through my eyes the love of my Son. Oh, how He loves you!
  
  
The Fifth Station
SIMON OF CYRENE IS FORCED
TO HELP JESUS CARRY HIS CROSS

Jesus: The cross was so heavy I could not move. My persecutors became angry and forced a man to help Me. The cross was so heavy the two of us could barely move it. How is your cross today? Does it seem so heavy you cannot go on? I am forever watching you. When you are suffering the greatest, I am very close to you. It is in immense suffering that you realize My great love for you. Pray for grace to do always the Father's Will. Pray for grace to grow in your knowledge and love of Me.
  
The Sixth Station
VERONICA WIPES THE FACE OF JESUS

Jesus: My face was covered with blood. From the crowd Veronica came forward with a cloth to wipe My face. On the cloth I gave to you an imprint of My bloodied face. This, My children, remains with you this day as a sign of My immense love for you. But more than any cloth, look beyond the visible consecrated host. I, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, remain with you, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, in the Eucharist this day, waiting and longing to be with you. Oh, how I love you!
  
The Seventh Station
JESUS FALLS THE SECOND TIME

Jesus: Oh, dear ones, the road became harder and harder to walk. The cross was becoming heavier, My body weaker and weaker. My shoulders and arms hurt so much! My head throbbed as I walked. The blood came from My body, from My head to My feet. I was covered with open wounds. I could not go any farther. I stumbled and fell. Again they poked at Me, only harder, and with such hatred they kicked Me. Such vileness in the hearts of men! My greatest agony was not the agonies of My body, but the agonies of My heart for the love I have for all My precious souls. I loved them so dearly. I loved those who persecuted Me. Oh, how I love you!
  
The Eighth Station
JESUS MEETS THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM

Jesus: The women came to Me with their children, their tender hearts crying and wanting to comfort Me. I saw their love, their care. I saw the coldness of men's hearts for all time, the hatred, the anger, the sins, all the souls that, despite all of My sufferings and death, would be condemned to eternal damnation. I told the women to weep not for Me, but for themselves and their children. My greatest agonies were the agonies of My Most Sacred Heart. Oh, how I love you!
  
The Ninth Station
JESUS FALLS THE THIRD TIME

Jesus Falls the Third Time
Jesus: I fell hard the third time. I was so weakened I could not go on. My body collapsed under the cross from such exhaustion! My child, My child, My greatest agonies were not the wounds to the body. They were the wounds I experienced to My heart. Do you know a little more now how I love you? It is in meditating on My Passion and death that you will realize My immense love for you. When you fall, when you struggle, I give you the grace to get up. I never give you more than you can handle. Your strength will come from Me. Come to My Eucharistic Heart. I am waiting for you this day. Oh, how I love you!
  
The Tenth Station
JESUS IS STRIPPED OF HIS GARMENTS

Jesus: They took Me to the hill to crucify Me. They angrily stripped Me of My garments. They took off My clothes to whip Me. They had covered My bloody wounds with a dirty purple robe. Now, total surrender-they took off My clothes. I showed you the way to surrender, always complying with the Will of the Father. It is in living in His Will that you will have peace and joy, and life eternal some day. Oh, how I love you!
Photo of Eleventh Station   
The Eleventh Station
THEY NAIL JESUS TO THE CROSS

Messenger: See Mary as she holds the little Baby Jesus. See her as she washes His tender hands and feet. See her now as she watches as they pound into those same hands and feet the gigantic nails that fix Jesus to the cross.

Mary: Oh, my dear ones, my heart was torn in my chest as they nailed His hands and feet to the cross. I ask you this day to walk the Passion with me and see through my eyes the love He has for you. He truly was nailed to the cross.

Jesus: They pounded the nails into My first hand, then they stretched My body and nailed My other hand. The blood poured from these wounds that went totally through My hands. My pain was so immense, but then they nailed My feet! You do not know what pain I suffered, My child. My children, My children, for each one of you I suffered this pain. Oh, how I loved you!
  
  
The Twelfth Station
JESUS DIES ON THE CROSS

(Silence.)

Messenger: He hung for three agonizing hours on the cross against the darkened sky. His greatest agonies were not the agonies of His body, but those of His Heart for the great love He has for each and every soul.

Jesus: I gave Myself to you, My dear ones. I gave My all. I hung with My arms spread in total surrender. My head was punctured; My hands and feet were nailed to the cross. I gave Myself to you. I give Myself to you this day in the Eucharist. I give Myself to you. I, God, give you Myself! What more do you want?

Song: Oh, burning Heart, oh, Love divine, etc.

Messenger: They pierced His Heart with a lance and what flowed forth was blood and water, the sacramental life of the Church, water for Baptism and blood for the Eucharist. His life, death and resurrection live on in the Church this day.
  
  
The Thirteenth Station
JESUS IS TAKEN DOWN FROM THE CROSS
AND PLACED IN THE ARMS OF HIS MOTHER

Messenger: His totally lifeless body was placed in the arms of His most loving Mother. As she had held the little baby body in her arms, she now received His bloodied, bruised body in her arms. This is how He obeyed the Father's Will. Jesus gave His life for us. The Father gave His only Son because He loves us so much. Mary, His Mother, our Mother and the Mother of the Church, is forever by His side. See Jesus in the arms of His loving Mother under the cross. This is love.

Mary: I held His lifeless body in my arms. See through my eyes the love He has for you this day. He gives Himself to you today in the Eucharist. He loves you so much!
  
The Fourteenth Station
JESUS IS LOCKED IN THE TOMB

Messenger: His enemies rolled the stone up to the tomb and were pleased to have buried Jesus. Mary, outside the tomb, wept bitterly. The cold reality that He was dead! But death has no power over Jesus for on the third day He rose, triumphant, from the tomb! We are partakers in His divine life. Death has no power over Jesus. He is with us this day. He comes to bring us life to the full. He loves us so much!

  

THE SEVEN SORROWS OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
AT A SHEPHERDS OF CHRIST MEETING
FEBRUARY 22, 1995

The Prophecy of Simeon
Mary, Joseph and the child Jesus went to the temple. Simeon, the prophet, inspired by the Holy Spirit, met them and told Joseph and Mary of the great sufferings of Jesus and Mary. He told Mary that a sword would pierce her heart. From that point on, Mary ever remembered the prophecy of Simeon whenever she beheld her child. When she looked at His little body, even as an infant, she knew He would suffer. Every time she clothed Him and watched Him at play, her heart was torn in her chest as she knew what He would suffer. And a sword, too, shall pierce your Heart, O Mary!

The Flight into Egypt
Joseph was told by the angel to flee. Joseph, Mary and the child Jesus had to flee because of what might happen to Jesus. They had to pack for a long stay. The child Jesus was so small! They left on their journey, hearts full of fear, trying to protect Jesus. They were forced to flee into Egypt.

Jesus Is Lost, In the Temple
Imagine the sufferings in Mary's heart when she realized the child Jesus was not with them. Think of how it would be to lose your child and not know where he was or if anything happened to him. With sorrow in their hearts, Mary and Joseph returned to Jerusalem to look for the child Jesus. And a sword, too, shall pierce your heart, O Mary!

Jesus Carries His Cross
Song: See the eyes that look at Mary, her tender infant child. See the child's Heart beat so tenderly, the Savior of the world!
See the eyes of Jesus and Mary as they met on Calvary. Mary's Heart knew Jesus' Heart so well! From the first moment of conception and throughout His life, Mary was so connected with Jesus and now she peered into His eyes. The crown of thorns adorned His Head! Blood ran down His face! A heavy cross on His back! Wounded, His whole body covered with bleeding wounds! And her whole life flashed before her, the life that she had spent with Jesus. This was the beloved child that she had held in her arms when Simeon told Mary that 'a sword, too, shall pierce your Heart, O Mary!'

Jesus Dies on the Cross
Mary stood under Jesus' cross as He was put to death. The child that she had held in her arms as Simeon prophesied, And a sword, too, shall pierce your Heart, O Mary! Now Jesus is dead on the cross! He gave His flesh, He gave His blood so that we might be with Him forever in heaven. He held not back. He gave His all. He calls out to us this day to see through the eyes of His mother as she appears and calls out with a Heart of great love, "Return to the love of my Son! He is with you this day. He remains with you, no less present than the day that He hung on the cross, in the Eucharist. He longs for you to come and be with Him. He is in your brother. How can you not love your brother when Jesus died for your brother?"

Her Heart was pierced with a sword. His Heart was pierced with a lance. What came forth was blood and water, the sacramental life of the church. He lives with us this day in the Church. He gives to us His sacraments, the source of His life! He gives to us the Sacrament of Penance whereby any sin that we commit can be taken away through the priest. He wants us to be so close to Him! He gives us everything to be close to Him. But we see with such limited vision only those things that are right before our face, when the true reality is that which we don't see with our eyes, the reality of the invisible divinity of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, in the consecrated Host! This is reality! This is our life! This is our power! This is God! And a sword, too, shall pierce your Heart, O Mary!

Jesus Is Taken Down from the Cross
If we ever doubted for one second that we were loved, we could visualize the picture of Mary as she sat beneath the cross with the lifeless, battered, bruised and bloodied body of her Son in her arms, the same child that she held when Simeon prophesied her suffering. He gave His last breath. He gave the last beat of His Heart. He gave His all! This is the way He complied with the Will of the Father. He came to show us the way. He died in perfect peace. To His death He was in peace because He knew the Father's love. The Father loves us so much that He gave His only begotten Son for love of us! The Spirit descended upon the Virgin Mary and the Word was made flesh! The love of the Two Hearts! Such immense love beating for us!

In all love there is suffering. Her Heart was pierced with a sword. His Heart was pierced with a lance. And a sword, too, shall pierce your Heart, O Mary!

Jesus Is Locked in the Tomb
And now Jesus, His body lifeless, is locked in a tomb! What cold reality for Mary to realize that His body is now gone! A stone separated her from her Son!

He gave His last breath! He gave the last beat of His Heart for love of each one of us! And she comes to us this day with her sweet, beautiful voice and she asks us to go to her Son and love Him! How can we refuse Jesus who spread His arms and gave His life for each and every one of us? How can we not trust Him when He loved us so much that He allowed them to tear His flesh, to crown Him with piercing thorns and, lastly, to hang Him on a cross? He truly gave His life for us! He, truly God, is with us this day, the same as the day He died on the cross, in the tabernacle! And we take it so lightly! Death has no power over Him! Locked in the tomb for three days, He rose triumphant on the third day as He had foretold. He comes to give us life. He gives us the sacrament of Baptism that initiates us into His life, that makes us children of God and heirs of heaven if we remain in the state of grace. He asks two things: love of God and love of one another! He came to show us the way and His way is love. To His death on the cross He loved each one of us! He calls out to each one of us here today to be His soldiers, to march on a world that has forgotten God, that has forgotten what it is like to love! It is a battle to live in this world. But the battle is won with hearts that are filled with His love, empowered by the grace and might that He pours out in the Eucharist. He calls out for us to come to the Eucharist and to the tabernacle and be fed with His very flesh and blood. To feed on Divine Life, the greatest nourishment, the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God! This is the love He gives. This is the love He asks us to share.

         

  

March 3, 2003 message continues

Messenger:         Jesus told me to put on the glorious mysteries 

                                tomorrow.

                            Tomorrow will be the glorious mysteries.

                            We must see the connection between death -

                                resurrection.

                            This is the paschal mystery.

    

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