Shepherds of Christ          Daily Writing

March 8, 2009

 

Mass - March 13th at 10:00 a.m.

 

Mass- March 10th at 12:00 noon

Mass - March 11th at 1:30 p.m.

Mass -  March 12th at 1:30 p.m.

 

Retreat in China

March 10, 11, 12 & 13th

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We are trying to reprint Fr. Carter's Response to God's Love

and the Mass Book for the

next priestly mailing.

Here are a few comments we have received from

the pope, cardinals, bishops in the past month or so.

 

 

Responses received just lately from the Priestly Mailing

1. Merry Christmas 2008. Pope 1/2009

2. ...Received the book: "Light, Happiness & Peace" by Fr. John Pasquini. We are hereby asking permission of the publisher or the author to translate it in _____ and publish it as it is an outstanding, comprehensive and practicle manual of traditional Catholic spirituality very needed these days.

Please inform us of the procedure. We are willing to publish it as an Archdiocesan publication or through one of the religious publishing houses in ____.  2/28/2009

3. Thank you for your beautiful reflections on priests and their ministry. I always appreciate your materials and publications.  US Bishop 2/9/2009

4. Thank you very much once again for your letter enclosed with a copy of the Shepherds of Christ Ministries Prayer Manual and handbook and a book entitled "Focusing on the Word". Your kind gesture is deeply appreciated.  Philippines Archbishop 2/3/2009

5. Thank you very much for the copy of Guiding Light: Focusing on the Word. Bishop appreciates your thoughtfulness in remembering him with this gift. US Bishop 1/29/2009

6. Thank you for the kind remembrance you sent during the Christmas Season. Your thoughtful message was appreciated. US Archbishop 1/28/2009

7. Thanks for the beautiful Christmas card, as well as for the book and the other information that you sent to me. I pray for a lot of blessings on you during 2009. Republica Dominicana Archbishop 1/28/2009

8. Thank you for thoughtfully remembering me during this Christmas Season, when we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. May our God bless you and your loved ones abundantly with His peace, joy and infinite graces during 2009. Grateful for our belief that "Nothing is Impossible with God". Many thanks for the Shepherds of Christ Associates Spirituality Handbook and Prayer Manual, the song "A Priest is a Gift from God," as well as the book Guiding Light: Focusing on the Word. US Bishop 1/2009

9. Please accept my thanks for your letter, for spreading devotion to Our Blessed Mother and for the enclosed gift of Fr. Joe Robinson's Homilies: Guiding Light: Focusing on the Word. Your heartfelt words and generosity are very much appreciated. US Cardinal 1/27/2009

10. Thank you for sending me a copy of Guiding Light and the other enclosures. Asking God to bless you and Ms. Rita Ring in your ministry. US Cardinal 1/25/2009

11. Thank you for your kind letter by January 15th and for the book with the homilies by Father Joe Robinson. At this occasion I wish you and all of your collaborators all the best for the New Year. Belgium Archbishop 1/23/2009

12. Thank you for sending me the recent mailing. With cordial and prayerful wishes. US Cardinal 1/21/2009

13. Remembers you, thanks you, and sends his best wishes to you for a very Merry Christmas of 2008. Burma Msgr. 1/2009

14. Thank you very much for your kind letter of December 13th last, enclosing your brother's homily book and the handbook for the Shepherds of Christ Associates. Vatican Cardinal 1/19/2009

15. Best wishes in the Lord. Vatican Cardinal 1/2009

16. I am very grateful for the book of homilies which accompanied your good wishes. Your prayers and support are indeed a great encouragement to me. Please know that you will be in my prayers that this New Year of 2009 may bring you and your family many graces. Vatican Cardinal 1/16/2009

17. You do marvelous work in support of priests. Thank you so much for the initiatives you are taking or have taken. I also appreciate the message you have shared with me. US Archbishop 1/14/2009

18. Thank you very much for your very kind Christmas greetings and for the books that you sent to me in order to nourish me spiritually in my priestly and Episcopal ministry. US Bishop 1/7/2009

19. I received your beautiful card with Christmas greetings. Thank you for your remembrance of me at Christmas and most especially for your prayers. US Bishop 1/6/2009

20. I received your letter dated December 13, 2008 with the book of homilies by Fr. Joe Robinson and the handbooks for the Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I thank you very much for the presents and especially for your beautiful letter. I will pray every day for your initiative. You are near my heart and I will be near yours. Poland Cardinal 12/20/2008

21. With my deep gratitude for your blessings at Christmas! Love - Peace - Joy. God bless you! Vatican Cardinal 1/2009

   

 

March 8, 2009

                    See through the eyes of God —

                    We are loveable because God has clothed
                us in His beauty. Proper self-love is
                a virtue. In love for the self we rejoice
                at how we have thus far participated
                through grace in the greatness of God;
                in love for the self we develop further
                this divine image.

                    Selfishness where a person is not
                loving to God or others is not selfless
                love. The person really hates the self,
                Fr. Carter says, since it is totally
                opposed to the true good of the
                individual — life according to God.

                    We are to love the true self — the self
                created by God, possessing the Christic,
                Trinitarian image. This self desires
                to live according to God's plan.
                Part of our plan is the same as others,
                part of the plan is because of our
                own unique person.

                    Love of self involves growth of
                achieving self-identity —
                achieving an ever greater self-knowledge —
                a greater knowledge of who I am as
                this unique, Christic, individual,
                an ever greater awareness of what
                God wants me to do with my life.

                    Love of self involving acting
                according to God's will.

                    Self-knowledge is not all that easy.
                I do not know myself as well as I think.
                Others tell me things about myself
                I do not recognize. I may think
                I have a talent for a certain thing
                I don't have at all. I may possess
                talents I do not even recognize.
                To have incorrect self-evaluation
                is to hinder growth in self -
                knowledge.

                    We may wear masks acting like
                we have certain talents we don't have.
                I have different masks for different
                occasions — and different views
                of myself.

                    I can identify myself with my
                mask and failure in that profession
                can lead me to devastation.

                    I am always learning about
                myself — my capabilities and
                weaknesses — Proper, self -
                knowledge — not living in a
                vacuum — interacting, but most
                of all my relationship with God.

                    It is through my relationship
                with God that I grow in achieving
                self-identity.

                    God knows all things — God
                overwhelmingly loves me and He wants
                me to know I am precious to Him.

                    If I open myself to prayer, He
                will continue to reveal Himself
                to me and also He will reveal
                myself to me.

                    I want God to lead me to the
                center of my being — I want to
                know about the self in His image.
                Deeper insights into Himself and
                myself will come to light. I am
                to love myself —

                    The real tragedy concerning
                human suffering is not that there
                is so much of it, but that
                apparently so much of it is wasted.

                We can suffer

                    (1) correctly
                    (2) incorrectly

                A person in a wreck

                    (1) can become more loving —
                willing to cope with suffering —
                Progress in love

                    (2) Become bitter — hating

                Our purpose here on this earth is to
                realize how much God loves us
                and respond to that love —

                    Simplicity in the spiritual life
                is unity — life united to God — life
                in the Spirit — ORDER —

                    Unity comes from correct Christian love.
                We seek the truth about ourselves
                as seen through the eyes of love.

                    The Christian life is a participation
                into God's own life — Seeing
                through God's eyes His Plan for
                us — not telling us about ourselves
                by seeing unreal things about
                ourselves — playing negative tapes
                parents taught us about ourselves —

                    We love ourselves at our core
                as God created us and loves us not
                from parents and others.

                See through the eyes of love.

                    We all have an "inner child" of the
                past — This little child of the past
                wants us to live as we lived at
                home — We try to put our present
                life into these things that resemble
                the past at home as a little
                child — We want, what is familiar —
                This was how we learned, we
                were secure in this — Looking
                at our past life in growing
                up — we can see how we keep
                acting out with this little child
                of the past — this was our
                reality when we were little —

                    The little child of the past — trying
                to live in the familiar, their reality
                which they grew up in, can keep
                trying to reproduce this reality
                with the people around them
                today —

                    Why are we doing things a
                certain way - when we really
                don't want to?

                    The little child of the past
                wants their way — it may be
                a battle between this little
                child and the adult we are
                trying to be today —

                    The feelings of this little child
                of the past must still be
                contended with — we are the
                same person — we must recognize
                these things about ourselves.

                    A person can overlook their past
                and act out in adult life like
                this little child in intimate
                relationships — expecting others
                to listen to the demands of this
                little child and expecting adults
                in these relationships to stroke
                them and make them feel secure —
                Unfinished, unsecure business
                of this environment must be
                reckoned with —

                    The little child may want their
                way, want attention that is
                childish and pouts to get it —
                Games can be played as people
                act out from the past expecting
                others to meet these childish
                demands that make NO SENSE
                in the adult setting.

                    In the little child of the past
                acting out and trying to twist
                and turn others in their present
                setting to what was once familiar,
                and learned by them in reality —
                they further in letting their
                childhood feelings rule them —
                act out a reality that is almost
                impossible to reckon with —
                Also the person is always acting
                out unfinished business — trying
                to "have a happy ending"
                so to speak —

                    If they were trained — "men
                ruled" and were aggressive
                demanding of women — and they
                never looked at themselves
                religious communities, marriages —
                anywhere where a family setting
                of intimacy is lived may
                contend with a person who
                sees themselves as "RIGHT"
                acting from feelings of
                childhood — with dominance
                of the one in charge and
                trying to heal their own wounds
                of the past —

                    A person in living the
                Christian life and making themselves
                responsible for their actions —
                living in the here and now —
                is set free of these chains
                that can keep them stuck —
                if they are trying to create a
                reality out of their present
                situation where they can
                act out childhood feelings —
                unmet needs of the past —
                unfinished business
                and expect another or others
                to see sanity in this to live
                in this setting —

                Couple all this with the fault
                of the wounded human nature —
                seeking dominance for dominance
                sake, jealousy, envy, lust,
                greed, etc.

                We are on a work-board
                We have relationships and they help
                    us see our imperfections

                The adult entering a religious community
                or a person wanting to be married
                and acting out their childhood
                feelings — putting others in the
                role of being under them —
                or sisters and brothers relationships
                acted out on adults near them now —
                can be a mess for unity —
                if pride enters in and they expect
                to get away with this —

                Who could stay married if a "baby"
                    is acting out or punishing
                    others for unmet needs from
                    their feelings as children.

                We have the Hearts of Jesus and
                    Mary.

                Mary gives us her pure and Immaculate Heart —

                We must parent ourselves —
                Go to the Pure and Holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary

                We are responsible for lies and
                    ways we twist things to get
                    dominance

                A character defect becomes us when
                    we keep acting passive-aggressively
                    to put our rules into practice —

                The little child if left to their way —
                    "Wants their way"

                    A person in a community can
                use force to get others to go along
                with the behavior that is familiar
                to them —

                    If they had an angry dad or mom —
                they learned dad got his way
                with anger — abusive talk —
                they can see it their way —

                    They have been trained

                    Now they are the adult — their
                behavior MUST be accepted they
                think — mom and dad taught them
                in childhood — they were taught
                before they could talk — so it is
                the way and they work - not
                on the mission, the marriage, but on
                their kingdom in which they rule
                and have it their way. 

                    The unspoken rules
                    The familiar
                    The feelings of childhood
                        not met

                    Concupiscence

                    Seeking dominance for
                        dominance sake —

                    I remember taking voice lessons
                and I went to my teacher and he
                said "you don't breathe right"
                And I thought — the nerve of him —
                I have been breathing my whole
                life, but Jesus had told me to
                take these lessons — He wanted me
                to communicate His words in
                song and I had to learn —
                I did as my instructor told
                me and soon I learned so
                many things and had so much
                breathe — it never was a problem
                with my singing again —

                I knew Jesus sent me there to learn —

                    Jesus gave us Mary as
                our spiritual Mother —

                    Jesus came Himself the
                "Son of God" —

                    When Jesus was baptized —

                Scripture says 

Matthew 3: 17

                        ...‘This is my Son, the Beloved; my favour rests on him.’

                    At the transfiguration - the
                voice was heard.

Matthew 17: 5

‘This is my Son, the Beloved; he enjoys my favour. Listen to him.’

 

                    I saw this vision on January 21, 2008.
                To the left the black got blacker and
                blacker — so black I couldn't hardly
                imagine it.

                    Jesus was illuminated in light —
                coming out from the cross — lighter
                and lighter and I knew this was
                the Son of God — we were to follow
                Him —

                    On March 5, 2009 — Jesus and
                Mary appeared to me — Jesus said
                over and over again

                    "Follow Me"
                    "Do not be afraid"
                    "Follow in My footprints"
                    "Do not be afraid"

                We are here to follow the footprints
                    of Jesus —

                Jesus came to show us the way —
                The Blue Book writings are the
                Mighty Medicine — He in His love
                letters teaches us — I heard Him
                delivering each Blue Book writing —
                look at Jesus teaching us so
                sweetly and with such love —
             — teaching us about the pure and tender —
                love of His Heart —
             — teaching us how we are to love
                God and love others purely

                Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and
                    Mary

                    — feeding our hungry souls
                        created for God

                    — Meditations from Their pure and
                        tender Hearts

                On December 17, 1996 — Mary appeared
                    like this on the building

July 5, 2000

                It is interesting there is a Mother
                    and child.

                Mary appeared there

                    7 1/2 years

                    7 is that perfect number

                7 years

                And the book Rosaries from the
                    Hearts of Jesus and Mary left
                    the printer

                    December 17, 1996
 

shipped from the printers December 17, 1996

Mary appeared December 17, 1996

 

                Now lets look at the first reading —
                    first reading of Lent

Genesis 9: 8-15

    God spoke as follows to Noah and his sons, ‘I am now establishing my covenant with you and with your descendants to come, and with every living creature that was with you: birds, cattle and every wild animal with you; everything that came out of the ark, every living thing on earth. And I shall maintain my covenant with you: that never again shall all living things be destroyed by the waters of a flood, nor shall there ever again be a flood to devastate the earth.’

    ‘And this’, God said, ‘is the sign of the covenant which I now make between myself and you and every living creature with you for all ages to come: I now set my bow in the clouds and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I gather the clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds, I shall recall the covenant between myself and you and every living creature, in a word all living things, and never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all living things.

    

Psalm 25

ADORATION I offer, Yahweh,
to you, my God.

BUT in my trust in you do not put me to shame,
let not my enemies gloat over me.

CALLING to you, none shall ever be put to shame,
but shame is theirs who groundlessly break faith.

DIRECT me in your ways, Yahweh,
and teach me your paths.

ENCOURAGE me to walk in your truth and teach me
since you are the God who saves me.

FOR my hope is in you all day long—
such is your generosity, Yahweh.
GOODNESS and faithful love have been yours for ever,
Yahweh, do not forget them.

HOLD not my youthful sins against me,
but remember me as your faithful love dictates.

INTEGRITY and generosity are marks of Yahweh
for he brings sinners back to the path.

JUDICIOUSLY he guides the humble,
instructing the poor in his way.

KINDNESS unfailing and constancy mark all Yahweh’s paths,
for those who keep his covenant and his decrees.

LET my sin, great though it is, be forgiven,
Yahweh, for the sake of your name.

MEN who respect Yahweh, what of them?
He teaches them the way they must choose.
NEIGHBOURS to happiness will they live,
and their children inherit the land.
ONLY those who fear Yahweh have his secret
and his covenant, for their understanding.

PERMANENTLY my eyes are on Yahweh,
for he will free my feet from the snare.
QUICK, turn to me, pity me,
alone and wretched as I am!

RELIEVE the distress of my heart,
bring me out of my constraint.
SPARE a glance for my misery and pain,
take all my sins away.

TAKE note how countless are my enemies,
how violent their hatred for me.
UNLESS you guard me and rescue me
I shall be put to shame, for you are my refuge.
VIRTUE and integrity be my protection,
for my hope, Yahweh, is in you.

Ransom Israel, O God,
from all its troubles.

 

1 Peter 3: 18-22

Christ himself died once and for all for sins, the upright for the sake of the guilty, to lead us to God. In the body he was put to death, in the spirit he was raised to life, and, in the spirit, he went to preach to the spirits in prison. They refused to believe long ago, while God patiently waited to receive them, in Noah’s time when the ark was being built. In it only a few, that is eight souls, were saved through water. It is the baptism corresponding to this water which saves you now—not the washing off of physical dirt but the pledge of a good conscience given to God through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has entered heaven and is at God’s right hand, with angels, ruling forces and powers subject to him.

 

Mark 1: 12-15

And at once the Spirit drove him into the desertland he remained there for forty days, and was put to the test by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and the angels looked after him.

                Not by bread alone does man live,
                    but on every word that
                    comes from the mouth of God —

                The Word and the Eucharist is the
                    Bread of life —

                The sign is the rainbow of
                    Our Lady of Clearwater —

                Clearwater

                Baptism - water

                Covenant with God

                Man had become so corrupt
                    God flooded the earth

                Mary appeared at Fatima —

                    The Queen of Peace

                    Mary promised this era of
                        peace at the beginning
                        of the century

Excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima

July 13, 1917

    But in the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph, the Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, Russia will be converted, and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world. ⁽¹³⁾
   

---

NOTES:

13. For background material on Fatima, I am particularly indebted to
        Our Lady of Fatima's Peace Plan from Heaven 
        (Rockford: TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., 1983).

 

                At the end of the Century

                    December 17, 1996

                    Rosaries with Rainbow
                        from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary

                Fr. Carter's messages

                    (1)

                    (2)

July 5, 1994 6:30 p.m.

I was told to go to Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center to pray the rosary with my children. There were people in the front of the church, so we decided to pray the rosary in the back before the Sorrowful Mother statue. I had the following vision at the end of the rosary.

The statue of the Sorrowful Mother was lit up as if she had fire around her. The light was very bright. Her whole gown was all-white, but the statue's gown is blue and pink. She was all aglow. It looked like the glow that comes off of a fire. Her face kept changing but remained totally sorrowful-the sorrow of an older woman. She was in such pain and sorrow! (It was hard to explain how she looked-extremely pained!) Her face looked as though she was in such pain that she could hardly bear it.

The vision remained like this for about ten minutes, having begun during the last Hail Mary of the Sorrowful Mysteries of the rosary. She was holding something-it was all bright white-the brightest light ever!

end of excerpt from the Red Rosary Book

                    (3)

August 1, 1994

Pray For The Success Of The Priestly Newsletter - Shepherds of Christ

Messenger: The following is the first official message I received before the statue of Mary at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center. It is a personal message for Father Carter.

Mary: (in front of the glowing statue of Our Lady of Sorrows) I am the Immaculate Heart. My Heart is glowing for love of all my beloved children. I am your most loving Mother. I am with you this day. Pray for the success of the priestly newsletter Shepherds of Christ. I am guarding your way. You will receive such graces to accomplish this task! Grace from God is so abundantly bestowed on you and will lead to the success of this endeavor! Pray for this cause at the Center. The priests will lead the people to the love of My beloved Son. This is no little task. It will take many prayers and graces. Pray hard, little one. Your prayers will change many hearts.

I am Mary, your Immaculate Mother. I bring this message to My beloved priest-son.

end of August 1, 1994

                    (4)

October 13, 1994

    "I wish to share with you part of a message which Jesus gave us on October 13, 1994. The message tells us about the expansion of the Shepherds of Christ movement:

    'My beloved priest-companion, today I come to you with another mission. I am asking you to establish Shepherds of Christ Ministries. At My request you have already begun the priestly newsletter, "Shepherds of Christ", and the prayer chapters, Shepherds of Christ Associates...

    'I am giving you this message on this day, the 77th Anniversary of the Great Apparition at Fatima, because of the close connection between the Shepherds of Christ movement and the Fatima message. The Fatima message is centered in devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart, especially in consecration to Our Hearts. Shepherds of Christ Ministries is also centered in devotion to Our Hearts. I will use Shepherds of Christ Ministries as a great instrument in helping to bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. When this occurs, My Church and the world will be experiencing the great era of peace promised by My Mother at Fatima.

    'Today, then, October 13, 1994, the 77th Anniversary of the Great Apparition at Fatima, marks the birth of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I pour forth the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock.'

    "Jesus has told us that Shepherds of Christ Ministries includes: the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, Shepherds of Christ Associates prayer chapters, various publications, including books, whatever else Our Lord directs us to undertake.

    "As members of Shepherds of Christ Associates, you are an extremely important part of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. You have given great joy to the Heart of Jesus by responding to His invitation to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. As He draws you closer to His Heart and to His Mother's Heart as Associates members, He will fill you with an ever-increasing experience of His love, peace, and joy."

- From In the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, Newsletter of Shepherds of Christ Associates
by Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J., Volume 1, No. 1, 1995. p. 2.

                    (5)

Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus

My dear fellow Associate Members,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. For the spread of the devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary culminating in the reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of the Immaculate Heart.

2. For the Pope.

3. For all bishops of the world.

4. For all priests.

5. For all sisters and brothers in the religious life.

6. For all members of the Shepherds of Christ Movement, and for the spread of this movement to the world.

7. For all members of the Catholic Church.

8. For all members of the human family.

9. For all souls in purgatory.

end of Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart message

                    (6)

Age of the Two Hearts

Jesus:  "My beloved priest-companion, I have allowed you to experience in extraordinary fashion the riches contained in My Heart and My Mother's Heart. I desire that you tell all My people about these riches. I desire that My people consecrate themselves to My Sacred Heart and to Mary's Immaculate Heart. My people are living in the beginnings of the age of the Two Hearts.

    "After the time of the purification is completed, this new era of the Church and the world will become firmly established. This era will be characterized by the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. All those who consecrate themselves to My Heart and to My Mother's Heart will help to establish this glorious new age. I am Lord and Master. Please listen to My urgent request. Within Our Hearts you will experience the love and security, the peace and the joy, which you all desire. I love My people with a tremendous love, and in My love I give them this message!"

Reflection: This is the Age of the Two Hearts! The surest road to sanctity in these our times is through consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. In making this consecration, and striving with God's grace to live it as best we can each day, we are contributing to the establishment of the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and to the arrival of the reign of the Sacred Heart.

end of excerpt from Tell My People

                All this at the end of the
                    2nd Millennium

                Mary appeared at Fatima
                    beginning of 2nd Millennium

                Mary appeared at Lourdes
                    end of 19th century

                From Fatima

Excerpt from Spirituality of Fatima

by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

Tell everyone that God gives graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Tell them to ask graces from her, and that the Heart of Jesus wishes to be venerated together with the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Ask them to plead for peace from the Immaculate Heart of Mary, for the Lord has confided the peace of the world to her. (24)
 

At the center of veneration of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary is the act of consecration to the Heart of Jesus and to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

A statement by Archbishop R. Arulappa further reveals how the message of Fatima centers in the act of consecration to the Heart of Jesus and to the Immaculate Heart of Mary:

In connection with the apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima, Sister Lucia, one of the seers, still alive, has been saying that on the 13th June 1929, Our Lady requested (as sister herself records in Memoirs and Letters of Sister Lucia, published in 1973), as follows: "The Good Lord promises to end the persecution in Russia, if the Holy Father will himself make a solemn act of reparation and consecration of Russia... as well as ordering all the Bishops of the Catholic world to do the same."

On March 21, 1982, Sister Lucia further explained to the Apostolic Nuncio, and two other witnesses, that the Pope must select a date on which to order the bishops of the whole world to make a solemn act of reparation and consecration of Russia to the most Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, each in his own cathedral and at the same time as the act effected by the Pope.

There are actually two versions of the vision of Our Lady on 13th June 1929, but they are essentially the same. In the better known version, Our Lady says: "The moment has come for God to ask the Holy Father to make, in union with all the Bishops of the world, the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart. He promises to save Russia by this means." The special mention of "Russia" in this Act of Consecration is to be noted.

When Sister Lucia asked Our Lord why He would not convert Russia without such an act of consecration, He replied:

"Because I want my whole Church to recognize this consecration as a triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, so as to extend its cult later on, and to place devotion to this Immaculate Heart beside the devotion to My Sacred Heart." (25)
 

The above Fatima messages clearly demonstrate that the overall Fatima message centers, and is summed up, in consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. The collegial act of consecration of Russia will occur, according to Sr. Lucia "when a sufficient number are complying with the message of Fatima." (26)

In other words, when a sufficient number are living the Fatima message, as centered in consecration to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart, then the collegial consecration of Russia to the Sacred Heart and to the Immaculate Heart will occur.

end of excerpt from Spirituality of Fatima

 

                Jesus told Fr. Carter
                    and then me to
                    spread these writings —
                    the Priestly Newsletter
                    to the Bishops

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Please inform us of the procedure. We are willing to publish it as an Archdiocesan publication or through one of the religious publishing houses in ____.  2/28/2009

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                My writings —
 

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                From Response to God's Love by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J. - Chapter 2

                                                         The Christian's Personal  Uniqueness

                                                        Obviously, we all assimilate the mystery of Christ in basically the same way. There are, however, significant differences in how each person puts on Christ that result from the uniqueness of each individual. Each person is a unique expression of God's creative love. Each person can truthfully say that there has never before been anyone like himself or herself, there is now no one like him or her, and there never will be.

       The personal uniqueness of each human being increases in proportion to one's assimilation to Jesus. That is to say, the more I put on Christ, the more I lose myself in Christ, the more I become myself. This is true because grace perfects nature, and, consequently, the more I grow in grace, the more perfect all dimensions of my person become—and this includes uniqueness. We see, then, how fallacious is the reasoning of those who think that the more they give themselves to the practice of religion, the more their personalities will be subdued. Actually, the opposite is true—the more one grows in Christ, the more his or her unique personality emerges in all its attractiveness.

       As I grow in the realization of my own uniqueness, I should also grow in developing a sense of self-identity and self-acceptance. If God in his tremendous love for me has created the uniqueness that I am, should I not rejoice in who I am and avoid morbidly comparing myself to others? Should I not have a healthy self-image? Of course, self-acceptance does not mean self-complacency. Honest self-reflection will always reveal to me that there are weaknesses that must be further curbed and strengths that must be further developed.

       As God gives each person his or her uniqueness, he attaches to it a unique mission or role that is to be accomplished. Cardinal Newman tells us: "Everyone who breathes, high and low, educated and ignorant, young and old, man and woman, has a mission, has a work. We are not sent into this world for nothing; we are not born at random. . . . God sees every one of us; He creates every soul, He lodges it in a body, one by one, for a purpose. He needs, He deigns to need, every one of us" (Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations, pp. 111-112).

       Because of the uniqueness of each Christian's existence, he or she presents Christ with a unique opportunity. Each Christian has the vocation to offer Christ his or her humanity so that Jesus can re-incarnate himself in a new way. Jesus wants to continue his redemptive work through the not-to-be-repeated newness that is each Christian's uniqueness. To the extent that an individual Christian offers his or her humanity to Jesus, he or she has a unique opportunity to continue the redemption—an opportunity that no one else can offer him or her. Likewise, to the extent that an individual Christian fails to offer his or her humanity to Christ, Jesus loses the opportunity that is this Christian's uniqueness.

       Each of us, consequently, no matter what his or her occupation or status in life might be, has both the great privilege and the great responsibility to properly utilize his or her life according to God's Christic design. No one else can fulfill your unique mission, and, in turn, you cannot accomplish the unique mission of another. At times we can become somewhat fearful or anxious about the task that God has entrusted to us as we more deeply realize what it demands. We can feel the same reluctance that Jeremiah the prophet voiced when Yahweh called him:

       The word of the LORD came to me thus:
       "Before I formed you in the womb I
               knew you,
               before you were born I dedicated
               you,               
                                                   —Jer 1:4-5

end of excerpt

Matthew 11: 25

At that time Jesus exclaimed, 'I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to little children.

                Lourdes        1858

                Fatima          1917

                Rita              1994 (Messages began 1991)

                Clearwater    1996

                People ignored Clearwater

                On December 17, 1991

                    I saw a vision of Jesus' Heart
                        on fire after communion —
                        He said — I didn't know
                        how this Heart would
                        lead people to His
                        Sacred Heart

                5 Years LATER

                December 17, 1996

                    Mary appeared in Clearwater

Mary appeared
December 17, 1996

                    Red Rosary book left printer
 

shipped from the printers
December 17, 1996

                God tested Abraham

                Covenant

                Today's Readings

Genesis 22: 1-2, 9-10, 13, 15-18

                God tested Abraham

                Transfiguration

                        end of excerpt

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