Mary has requested that the daily message be given each day to the world. It is read nightly at the prayer service from her Image Building in Clearwater, Florida, U.S.A. This is according to her request. All attempts will be made to publish this daily message to the world at 11 p.m. Eastern time, U.S.A.


We acknowledge that the final authority regarding these messages rests with the Holy See of Rome.


I appear my children on this former bank building in Florida, Our Lady Clothed with the Sun.

March 8, 2000


A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul

Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.


Messenger: Include Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center in 6:20 prayers.


MARY'S MESSAGE - MARCH 8, 2000

MARY SPEAKS: MY CHILDREN, I CRY TO YOU.

PLEASE UNITE AS A BODY AND PRAY THIS LENT.

I BEG YOU TO PRAY THE 6:20 PRAYERS SOMETIME DURING THE DAY, EVERYDAY, AT 6: 20 IF POSSIBLE - UNITE AS A BODY.

PRAY THE MORNING OFFERING.

GO TO MASS AND COMMUNION AS OFTEN AS YOU CAN, DAILY IF POSSIBLE.

PRAY THE ROSARY.

CONSECRATE YOUR HEARTS.

TAKE THIS JOURNEY WITH ME AND JESUS TO A GREATER LIFE IN HIM ON EASTER.

HELP TO CHANGE THE WORLD.

I COME TO TEACH YOU TO PRAY.

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Mary's Message from the Rosary of August 27, 1996

Mary speaks: I stood beneath the cross of my Son, and my Heart was in such pain for I saw Him before my eyes. I saw Him covered with blood. I saw Him die. My Heart, my children, my Heart to watch my Son, but my Heart, my Heart, how I suffered for my little children of the world that give in to this world and give up the love of my Son. O my little children of light, I give you this message. Carry this light into the darkness for your Mother Mary, for I stood beneath the cross and I cried. I cried for the little ones. I cried for the young ones, the ones that do not care and will lose their souls. How do I make you see for you will not listen to me? What can I do? I come. I appear. I beg. I plead. I give you these gifts from my Son, and you reject me. I do not deliver messages very often anymore for I have been ignored. The message is the same. You do not read the messages I have given to you. Please help me. Help the little children. I appear. I appear. I appear, and I am ignored. I stood beneath the cross, and I cried. I cried, and my Heart was in such anguish for my little children, for I am searching for them this day as I searched for the Child Jesus. Please, please help me. I cannot hold back the hand of my Son any longer. I am Mary, your Mother. I ask you to help my children. You are my children of light.

Song: O Lady of Light, shining so bright, be with us this day, guiding our way, O Lady, O Lady of Light.

Mary speaks: I appear to you as Our Mother of Sorrows.

(End of Mary's Message)


Jesus speaks: The entry placed in yesterday's message was only a portion of the full message.

Today I present this whole message in its entirety.

THIS IS NOT A DUPLICATE OF YESTERDAY'S MESSAGE; PART II FOLLOWS TODAY. I REQUEST YOU PRINT THE MESSAGE IN ITS ENTIRETY.

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM ME FOR LENT.


Message given on March 7, 2000 in its entirety

A Day to Come

Messenger: It is a day when the air touches our cheeks like the stroke of a silk fabric and the birds chirp and all is well. It is a day of the Lord. It is a day when we can trust everyone and our wounds are healed for we are filled with His grace and His love, we are embraced by God. It is a day when there is no confusion, where justice and peace will kiss, where God's word will be planted in the hearts, where God is openly proclaimed as their God and they live united as His people. It is a day where children can play in open ground and all children are pure in their hearts loving and serving God, taught by parents and teachers who have made God the King and Center of their hearts. It is a day when God reigns in the hearts of men and in the land, in all places and towns, churches, byways, highways, bungalows and cities, homes and dry land, wetland, all land. It is a time when the Sacred Heart of Jesus is the King and Center of all hearts, when His Heart reigns in all places, for they are dwellings that exist to serve God.

It is the time when her Immaculate Heart will triumph. It is the new Eden, a garden filled with children of the New Adam and the New Eve. It is a garden where there are men that love as Abel and the devil's deadly influence will be no more.


Genesis 4:6-7

Yahweh asked Cain, 'Why are you angry and downcast? If you are doing right, surely you ought to hold your head high! But if you are not doing right, Sin is crouching at the door hungry to get you. You can still master him.'


Messenger: What is consecration to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart, but surrendering our tainted imperfect hearts to the two perfect Hearts. Mary, Mother of God, conceived without sin; Jesus, the Son of God, God-made-Man, come to this earth to show us the way and save us from our sins.

A day when the wind kisses our cheeks, every tear is wiped away and men live according to God's way.

And Jesus has given us this Movement to help bring about the reign of His Sacred Heart.


1 Corinthians 15: 25-26

For he is to be king until he has made his enemies his footstool, and the last of the enemies to be done away with is death, for he has put all things under his feet.


Messenger: Men must surrender their wills to God and live under His feet.

Who is Jesus' family?


Matthew 12:46-50
The true kinsfolk of Jesus

He was still speaking to the crowds when suddenly his mother and his brothers were standing outside and were anxious to have a word with him. But to the man who told him this Jesus replied, 'Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?' And stretching out his hand towards his disciples he said, 'Here are my mother and my brothers. Anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.'


Messenger: A story, Adam and Eve, the struggle with the will. A fallen human race for doing their own will.

Jesus, Who died on the cross doing the will of the Father.

Mary, the New Eve, living as the most perfect human person conformed to the WILL of God.

And so it is a lesson of authority and will which He teaches us.

Children learn obedience in the family.

We learn obedience in the Church.

Obedience is attacked.

Jesus Christ is persecuted today.

Obedience is attacked by the devil.

He wants the garden all over again with willful children.

Consecration helps all be in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary which are the Hearts of pure love. Jesus is God. He did the Father's will. Mary did God's will.

I see the beauty of the handmaid in our Shepherds of Christ handmaids.

They live to serve God as His spouse and bride.

He is their end, He is their espoused.

I see that life modeled in both our handmaids and servants that live to do His will and serve Him, like Mary. They walk in His name, not their own, their purpose is to do whatever He wants them to do because it gives Him pleasure.


Luke 1:46-55
The Magnificat

And Mary said:

My soul proclaims
the greatness of the Lord
and my spirit rejoices
in God my Saviour;
because he has looked upon
the humiliation of his servant.
Yes, from now onwards
all generations will call me blessed,
for the Almighty
has done great things for me.
Holy is his name,
and his faithful love extends age after age
to those who fear him.
He has used the power of his arm,
he has routed the arrogant of heart.
He has pulled down princes
from their thrones
and raised high the lowly.
He has filled the starving with good things,
sent the rich away empty.
He has come to the help
of Israel his servant,
mindful of his faithful love
--according to the promise
he made to our ancestors--
of his mercy to Abraham
and to his descendants for ever.


Messenger: This is so unlike the world that tells you to get your way and be over everybody else.

In fact, we must be under His feet to be as God wants us to be.

Authority is a blessing. In the Church the power flows from God, to the Pope, to the cardinals, bishops, to the priests, to the people. Jesus Christ is the Head of His Church, we are His brides.

He gives Himself to us in the Eucharist. He gives us His Body and His Blood. He remains with us. He is truly present in His Divinity and Humanity. The grace He outpours in this Eucharist is so tremendous. We become one in Him the New Adam. His wants become our wants, we want to help save souls.

Oh I cry to teach the lessons He teaches me, and yet the world with the influence of the devil, with the media, television, devices to appeal to all senses, has engrained the imperfect ways of the world into the souls.

His way is the only way, we must follow the Good Shepherd. Our shepherds in the Church must lead the way. They must speak the same words of the Good Shepherd. His Life He outpours to us in the Mass, in His word.

Now I say this to you, envision yourself approaching the altar, a bride bedecked in jewels, a white dress, a beautiful veil, signifying the great purity of the one approaching the altar of such a King. He is a King of all kings, He is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. He is the Lamb, the One sacrificed for the sins of His beloved souls.

Oh, she walked to the altar and He waits there dressed in bridal attire of black, Shepherd of the Flock, a God of ages past and present. A Supreme Being, One Who gives Himself, gives His divine perfect holy love to His beloved soul.

A gift surpassing all others. A union of the Divine God to His spouse, the SPOUSE of the LAMB.

Lent ends with Holy Week. Lent is a time to purify our hearts. We want to reach Him with purity. Giving ourselves in consecration means we surrender our wills to His. We work to walk in His name and not our own.

We realize doing what He wants pleases Him and we get great pleasure in this, more than in decorating our way, doing our thing, promoting ourselves. We realize that every act that we perform that is not His will affects everyone around us and everyone in the body of Christ.

Jesus speaks: My spouse, I am the Bridegroom, you are under Me. You are the cohorts in My army, the gentle breeze of a bride that is fearless as she fights for purity in the Church and the world, but recognizes she is a sounding gong if there is not purity in her own soul.

When you have a problem, why hide it? People have relationship after relationship, after relationship and they fail. And they continue to blame those in the relationship for their problems that are life long, every time blaming the other, cutting themselves off from others because they will not admit the truth about themselves. Every time you die to old habits that have adversely affected your lives with others, you grow in greater holiness and more perfected ways of loving. You will advance this way, if you listen to the valid observations from those around you. Many people who have a problem, just blame another, thinking they are perfect and move on to another victim who can either put up with the imperfect ways, if that is even possible, or must leave because the pain is too great to live with such a person.

In My Movement, I want oneness. It is the purpose of My Movement to lead the world into oneness. It is because of your imperfections you cannot get along.

There is a perfect love between the Persons of the Trinity. I am God. The Father, Myself the Son, and the Holy Spirit communicate most perfectly. We are love.

You do not unite properly because of your imperfect ways of loving.

In this Lent, I ask you to review your old significant love relationships and write about them. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you to write. Look at yourself and see how you have hurt others. It is easy to focus on others and blame them, they were always wrong, you were always right.

If you were in a relationship, no matter how horrible it was, you either grew to be more loving and like Mary and Myself, or you stayed the same or got worse.

In relationships, you see your imperfections.

If all stayed to themselves, they may think they are perfect.

In relationships, you grow in more perfected ways of loving.

In relationships, you learn to be loving.

I want oneness in My Movement, in My Church, in the world.

In the Blue Books I taught you about My personal love for you.

Love is enhanced by working through your imperfections and loving one another.

I am not saying you should sacrifice your quiet time, all need private time with Me.

You do not take a vacation from the way of life of praying I have taught you. It is your daily routine.

Sometimes, it is necessary to take several hours (3) before the tabernacle. This helps renew a very damaged spirit.

On Tuesdays I give tremendous graces for spiritual healing for those who unite in prayer at 6:20.

I want you to more and more live My way of life and live by the messages.

I give these messages to lead you into the Reign of the Sacred Heart.

This Lent I want you to focus on your relationship as My spouse. Focus on doing what I ask of you because it pleases me, on dying to patterned ways of acting in relationships that cause division with others.

Quit blaming others for your bad moods and the anger within you.

Some people are very angry from unmet needs.

The anger keeps coming up, little wounds trigger this anger that sprays out on others.

I want you to look into the hidden corners of your hearts and examine your consciences this Lent.

Live as My spouse to please Me.

Focus on the job I have given you.

The devil leads you off many times from doing God's will because you are trying to please others. You should try to love others, but always do God's will.

A story:

A mother of four spent her days ministering to all the needy and her children were not fed.

In marriage one should mature in more perfected love as each mutually gives of himself to grow.

Some marriages are most difficult depending on the parties.

In the most difficult relationships there can be great growth in handling the difficulties.

I want oneness. I ask you to pray the Our Father and to think of the words. You must forgive one another your trespasses. To feel you are always right, to think you must be perfect, to not forgive others will cause tremendous blocks to advancing in holiness and purity.

I end with this story.

A man cheated on his wife and another woman conceived the man's child. The man divorced his wife after 30 years of marriage. The husband's wife was devastated. The anger ate at her, she lost sleep at night, she didn't want to eat, she "jumped on" every person that talked to her.

After almost being confined to bed because of a stroke, a friend told her she should forgive him. Angered at the friend, she hated her and became more ill.

She is your friend, how can you help her?

My child, there are people all over the world that have been wounded and are angry and filled with bitterness. I give you these graces of healing on Tuesday at 6:20 especially. Tell everyone to pray then. Many angry people don't know they have a problem, they think everyone else has violated them.

Look inside, shine a light in there this Lent.

You do not live in a little vacuum.

You are a person. You were born, you have lived in relationships from the first touch of your cheek.

The more you know My love, the more you will be able to love others.

I love you. You are looking for unconditional love, acceptance, you want to know others approve of you.

You are God's creation, no matter what others think, get filled up by Me and live to spread My love to all.

Some people are so wounded, they do not even know that they feel rejected by people that are not even thinking about them at all.

The devil will work more and more in these voices that tell you negative things about yourselves. The devil wants you to not feel your great worth to Me.

I fill the hungry soul. There is a world of souls out there searching to fill their starved souls with something. They have been stalking the barren earth.

LIVE TO LOVE. ONLY YOU CAN CONTROL THE SMILE ON YOUR FACE, ONLY YOU CAN CONTROL HOW YOU HANDLE A SITUATION. I TELL YOU TO DISCIPLINE YOUR WILL. I TELL YOU TO CONTROL THE NEGATIVE TAPES IN YOUR HEAD. I GIVE YOU MY BLUE BOOKS. THEY ARE MY LETTERS OF LOVE. KEEP THEM WITH YOU ALL THE TIME. I AM YOUR SPOUSE AND I LOVE YOU. FORGIVE ALL WHO HAVE OFFENDED YOU. FORGIVENESS IS THE KEY TO PEACE. SAY YOU ARE SORRY REGARDING THOSE YOU HAVE OFFENDED. BE DOCILE, LOVING AND OF GOOD WILL. I AM GOD.

I AM LOVE - I CONTROL THE UNIVERSE. YOU ARE MY SPOUSE - LIVE TO PLEASE ME. I AM JESUS THE SON OF GOD.

 

Song from Jesus - Refrain

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 speaks: Stations of the Cross are on PDF files for printing on a single 8 1/2 x 11 page.

MARY SPEAKS:

PLEASE PRAY THE 6:20 PRAYERS. IF NOT DAILY AT 6:20, SOMETIME DURING THE DAY.

Jesus speaks: I wish you to work on your spousal union with Me in Lent, you can read these entries after Communion each day as you feel moved or before the tabernacle. Read one after Communion if you desire.

I wish the picture of China be placed here. A FULL SIZE PICTURE.

I wish the following entries to follow:

February 17, 1999 - Internet Spousal Entry - February 25, 1998
March 1, 1999 - Internet Spousal Entry - March 1, 1998
March 5, 1999 - Internet Spousal Entry - March 5, 1998
March 6, 1999 - Internet Spousal Entry - March 6, 1998
March 7 , 1999 - Internet Spousal Entry - March 7, 1998

I wish all to appear as The Spouse of the Lamb book.

I do not wish the reference to the Internet listing. List the entries on the dates received in Lent 1998.

More will be added to this booklet through Lent.


The Spouse of the Lamb book


Ash Wednesday, February 25, 1998 - 1st Day (Excerpt)

Jesus speaks: Do you think I acted on your soul less when I gave you the experiences of hell?

I give to you the greatest graces to know My love. I act directly on your soul. I am the Bridegroom of your soul.

Messenger: Oh Jesus, He took me to the heights of ecstasy in Him in realizing how He is the Initiator and acts on my soul. How foolish I am indeed to think it is I who control the workings of God on my soul, when in fact He is the Bridegroom of my soul.

I see Him look at me with the greatest love, as I did once in the study, when I knew He looked at me and loved me so. I sat with a white dress and my Bridegroom looked with love on me, thinking me so beautiful to Him, me the little child of the Father in all my faults, and looking on me with such love. He stood above me as a Bridegroom dressed in black, tall and handsome, and He looked down with the most loving eyes upon me and I knew the love of the Divine Creator.

Today I knew how it was, how He acted on my soul.

I see how it is when someone really acts in love and does something for me because that person loves me.

I see myself as open, letting go, putting myself entirely in the hands of the Creator, the God I love, and the Bridegroom comes with the greatest love and His grace. He gives me Himself. My job is to be, just to be, a soul, waiting for the Bridegroom to just give me Himself in the greatest love. I am, I know it is He who acts, and when He acts His presence overtakes my soul. I am, I let go and I reminisce about all the times He just overtook my soul.

Little do I do, for it is the Bridegroom loving me, loving my soul and acting most intimately on my soul.

I sit and surrender myself entirely to Him. He is the Initiator. He is the One Who acts with His grace and NOTHING - no intimate experience, nothing here can fill the soul with this love and satisfaction.

For the Bridegroom acts and the soul is satisfied, the only desire is that it will never end. Sometimes there is such a longing and realizing the temporariness of it all. Sometimes He gives my soul such satisfaction, comfort and love, and I am filled with the greatest peace and satisfaction with less awareness of the temporariness, just peace.

Jesus speaks: I give you the peace of the Sacred Heart of Jesus when He acts on the soul of His spouse. I am the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. I am the Spouse of your soul. I give you this satisfaction so that you will write to Me after Communion for My Mass Books for the world. This book will be entitled the Spouse of the Lamb. I will act on your soul most intimately.

And what My child is the key, but total surrender as a spouse who knows her spouse loves her and takes the love given. You, child, pray for this grace, to be possessed by the Lamb, the Bridegroom of your soul. What lesson did I teach you this day but that it is I who act upon you, you do not control My love given to you in any way. A grace is given, a grace is received.

Your total surrender is the way to most optimally allow the Bridegroom, the Lamb, to act on your soul.

Total yielding, so that you will allow yourself to be IN ME.

Messenger: Oh my God - how to explain that which happens when You act on my soul and what I experience. Are there any words that could do this justice when the Almighty God finds favor with me most intimately, and gives Himself to me?

Jesus speaks: My child, I act, you are passive, empty and open. Surrender and I will possess your soul with the lights of heaven so you can experience your Divine Lover most intimately. Surrender, surrender, surrender, a state of being and surrender to live in Him at the point of greatest intimacy in the Mass.

You will know days of darkness and joy as the shadows and lights fade in and out of your life and I reveal Myself most intimately to you.

I am Jesus Christ, the Bridegroom of your soul. Your hand must record these experiences for the marriage of the Lamb to the soul.

I act upon your soul most intimately.


March 1, 1998 - 5th Day

The Marriage of the Lamb

Messenger: What do I write today? Since that day, February 25th I have experienced the Bridegroom as He stands above me and strengthens me in this trial I have experienced. It has been a hellish experience to do the Father’s will, to stand firm for the truth when it would have been so much easier to laugh and to play as the world danced and I cried inside to stand behind the truth in this "Godless" world.

They danced and played and whistled a tune on the flute and the Bridegroom was ignored at His own wedding. How indeed would it be if at the marriage the bridegroom was treated as if he were not present?

We went to the altar, we received Him, the Lamb, the Bridegroom of our souls and then we ignored Him and went to laugh and play. We ignored Him and fed our faces.

The tenderest love Our Divine Captain gives to us in giving Himself in the Mass. The Almighty God, the King of heaven and earth, gives Himself to us in the deepest spousal relationship and what happens here? We ignore Him and talk to mere humans with God in our breast.

Let us make reparation to Him, Our Savior, for the ingratitude and indifference given to the King, the Lamb of God, Who was slain for our sins. They now have roped off my pew with a red chord and asked me to move my jacket as I prayed. Several ladies stand at the end of my pew and talk openly in church of the bishop to come in this church today. All the priests, the royal bridegrooms, anointed by the Lord, came out immediately after Mass and talked to the people, right in church. There was conversation and laughing at the beginning of Mass and at the end. A royal banquet, the Lamb was slain for our sins, now sacramentally made present here and who pays Him heed?

They worship Him with fan-fare and trumpets, flutes and tambourines, but when the banquet is served, they all get up and rush from the table. Little focus is given to the King and royal Bridegroom of the soul. He is really ignored. Oh precious King, we love You, we worship You, we adore You, forever.

I was unable to be intimately connected to Him today in a way that gave me happy feelings, but in my heart I know in the suffering there is no place to go but to Him.

Preparation must be made. Time must be set aside for a person who is important in our lives. Time must be set aside to prepare for the Lamb, the Bridegroom of our soul. It begins with acts of surrender, saying the "Prayer for Union with Jesus", the consecration, and the "Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass".

I love You, Jesus. In this suffering, I unite in You, passion and death. I love You, my Divine Lord, the Bridegroom of my soul.


March 5, 1998 - 9th Day

Messenger: My dear Bridegroom,
I see now the plan of the Father and that we are all children in His holy family. This is how we must see the world. It is His, we are one, He is our Father. We would not talk about our brother, we would love him. Always love him, as a brother in the holy family of the Father. We must keep our family pure. Each family is a little family of the Father's family, we are all related as the children of Eve, but this life in the Spirit, this relationship is all in the Spirit. If we understand generations and blood lines, we should clearly understand the connections of this family living as children of God. As we read in John 1:13, "who were born not from human stock or human desire or human will, but from God Himself."

He is the Initiator. We are the ones responding to His initiative. He is the life. He is the light.

John 1:3-8
Through him all things came into being,
not one thing came into being
    except through him.
What has come into being in him was life,
life that was the light of men;
and light shines in darkness,
and darkness could not overpower it.

A man came, sent by God.
His name was John.
He came as a witness,
to bear witness to the light,
so that everyone might believe
    through him.
He was not the light,
he was to bear witness to the light.

Thus it states: The witness of John (John 1:23)

So he said, 'I am, as Isaiah prophesied:

A voice of one that cries in the desert:
Prepare a way for the Lord.
Make his paths straight!'

All division will be finished, the hills leveled, the valleys filled in for there will be one flock and one Shepherd, one family of the Father.

The Son, the Word, reveals the Father, thus: John 1:1,3 he begins,

In the beginning was the Word:
the Word was with God
and the Word was God.

Through him all things came into being,
not one thing came into being
    except through him.

Zachariah was struck dumb for not believing, John was the voice to prepare the way of the Lord.

I saw John the Baptist in Conyers, Georgia April 14 or 15, 1993. I had experienced the loss of my voice, I was struck speechless.

The voice that came forth was His to prepare the way for the Lord of Hosts.

His voice speaks in these teachings, the voice of the Good Shepherd in Father Carter's and my revelations.

Here is John's testimony: '...Look, there is the lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.' (John 1: 29)


March 7, 1998 - 11th Day

Messenger: My dear Spouse,

You take us to Your mountain top and show us Your light and the world slumbers and sleeps and the throng below the hill shakes the tree and the dead fruit falls, but they do not see it.

We hear the voice of the Father speak, "This is My beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased." and we hear the voice of the Good Shepherd speak as He reveals His Father to us and His plan for the salvation of all men living according to His will.

The voice of the Good Shepherd will be heard as men listen to Jesus in the Shepherds of Christ Movement. This is what the Father said in His messages delivered in January 1997. Especially January 18, 1997, where He says, "My dear children, I am the Father. My plan is unfolding through you, My beloved priest, Father Carter, Rita, and the core group in the Shepherds of Christ."

"My Son has revealed Himself as never before in history in His tremendous love for men and you treat Our gift with indifference."

"I am talking through these messages given by My Son and Mary to tell you how to accomplish this task of carrying out My plan."


March 19, 1998 (Excerpt)

Passion

Messenger: Passion is a way the devil can lead a holy soul to death. Jesus calls us to holy love. He calls us to brotherly love, love rooted in God.

Passion is a way the devil uses to drive a holy soul to death.

When appropriate, for example at certain times when we pray together, Jesus wants us to hold hands, to join in unity and to touch one another in a proper way. Satan works in the thoughts of holy souls to create passions and desires that are not to God's liking.

Jesus gives us the Commandment, "Thou shall not commit adultery." He asks us to relax and be one and then asks us to be on our guard. He asks us for love as the Virgin Mary had for St. Joseph and for others. Holy love is holy. It is not rooted in passion and desires, it is rooted in love of God and Godly love for each other. If one truly loves himself and another, he would not put himself and the other in an occasion of sin that could lead to the death of the soul. One that loves would not wish the other to sin.

Time spent before the tabernacle is to give honor and glory to God. God is the focus of this time before the tabernacle. God is there to unite hearts to Himself and to others.

God gives us the Commandment to love God and one another. We are to love in holy love.

Satan can create passions, lights, feelings that will lead a holy soul into sin. Satan creates appetites within the soul to be improperly satisfied with food, alcohol, sex, indulgence. Jesus does not want us to be fearful. He wants us to help to bring about the Reign of the Sacred Heart. You must ask yourself, does this relationship have as its primary purpose to give honor and glory to God? Anything that would lead to anything sinful is not giving honor and glory to God.

I state clearly. Satan will try to lead some astray with passions. Our role is to help bring the world into oneness in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Satan can trick a couple engaging in prayer by passions and feelings. We must focus on the work at hand. Being led away by Satan harms the whole Movement. Be diligent, thrifty, and loving, praying always for the gifts of the Spirit.


Reading from Today's Mass

Joel 2:12-18

A call to repentance

'But now -- declares Yahweh --
come back to me with all your heart,
fasting, weeping, mourning.'
Tear your hearts and not your clothes,
and come back to Yahweh your God,
for he is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger, rich in faithful love,
and he relents about inflicting disaster.
Who knows if he will not come back,
    relent
and leave a blessing behind him,
a cereal offering and a libation
to be presented to Yahweh your God?

Blow the ram's-horn in Zion!
Order a fast,
proclaim a solemn assembly,
call the people together,
summon the community,
assemble the elders,
gather the children,
even infants at the breast!
Call the bridegroom from his bedroom
and the bride from her bower!
Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh,
stand weeping between portico and altar,
saying, 'Spare your people, Yahweh!
Do not expose your heritage
   to the contempt,
to the sarcasm of the nations!
Why give the peoples cause to say,
"Where is their God?" '

YAHWEH'S ANSWER

Then, becoming jealous over his country,
Yahweh took pity on his people.


Messenger: Jesus wishes that we give our hearts to Him and Mary. 

The following Valentine can be given to Jesus and Mary any day of the year. It is an act of love that would greatly please Him.

Use the following Valentine to fill in your name and the date you gave it to Him.

MY VALENTINE FOR JESUS AND MARY
AND THE WORLD

I _________________ give my heart to
You Jesus and Mary on this day

_________________
I promise to help spread the devotion to
the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

          


Question for married couples and others in intimate relationships:

Q: What can I do to help us be more united?


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