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. |
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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.
Mary speaks: My children, I am Mary your Mother and I write to you. Mt. St. Mary's Seminary was the building that was turned into "My House". From this seminary came forth many priests. In the sixties one could see the priests-to-be singing Vespers in the Rosary Chapel where I appeared. Many priests were ordained each year. The seminary was crowded. Today there are many priests still alive, many of them in Cincinnati, who came from Mt. St. Mary's Seminary. Every year now fewer and fewer priests are ordained. How is it that in the sixties so many were ordained, seminaries were full, and now a dwindling number are ordained, some of them older men?
In my convents, they do not realize the seriousness of the factors causing a dwindling number of members. In the sixties many young women entered the convent and took vows to become sisters. Now there are so few that come to the convent to be sisters.
Catholic high schools focused on religion, more sisters and priests were there teaching the young. The emphasis was placed on vocations. Schools taught the children of their Mother and the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. The focus was on receiving the Sacraments and receiving Jesus. The children were told of their First Communion and the focus was on Jesus. Today, my children focus less on their relationship with me their Mother. How can I teach my children when the schools are not focused on teaching them about me as their Mother? The Church needs her Mother. The priests must teach the people how they are a family and that the heavenly Father is their Father, I am their heavenly Mother, and Jesus is their best friend. Jesus, the Almighty God, is truly present and waits for them. He wants a loving, personal union with them.
My children, you are brothers and sisters in the Father's family. I am your Mother, Jesus is your Brother. He loves you, He is the Son of God, you are children of God.
It is the responsibility of parents today to teach the children of their role in the Father's family. The father is acting under the authority of the heavenly Father, the mother under God's authority. This authority of the parents is made clear in the Commandments and the Bible. You are the children of Eve. I am the heavenly Mother, Mary.
Malachi 1:6
'The son honours his father, the slave stands in awe of his master. But if I am indeed father, where is the honour due to me? And if I am indeed master, where is the awe due to me? says Yahweh Sabaoth to you priests who despise my name. You ask, "How have we despised your name?"
Mary speaks: You are to offer a most holy sacrifice to the Father. He gives you the perfect Sacrifice, the LAMB of God, the all holy, perfect Sacrifice to offer.
My children, you have cluttered your mind with computers, sports and T.V. Your focus is on money. Fatima was a gift from heaven to lead men into a deeper loving union with their God. You ignored me, my children. You still do not listen to my message of Fatima, and when my Son Jesus sends messages to lead the world into renewal, to pray for the priests and the Church and your world, you block every message He sends because you insist on doing it your way.
How many priests and sisters are being brought forth into the world today? Communities are not focused on the burning love of Jesus. Many sisters and priests have become worldly, having worldly jobs and little time to pray, living in apartments. My Son wants a burning spousal relationship with His religious. You are the Father's family, you are to live in intimate love.
For almost five years, my Son's Shepherds of Christ Ministry has prayed fervently for the priests. The Movement has spread to the far ends of the earth. The Movement has distributed world-wide the newsletter for the priests, written by my Son to lead the priests to the burning love of my Son Jesus through consecration to Our Hearts.
The Ministry begun by my Son to lead the flock into oneness through consecration to Our Hearts has been blocked at every turn by men that will not hear my message from Fatima. What are you doing to reach the children with the rosary and consecration? Why do you make the messengers suffer? Who will tell the children?
When will you begin praying the rosary as a family? Will you pray for the world that is sick? Do you think about my Son Jesus and how He loves you? If the priests do not tell the people of their relationship in the Father's family, if there are fewer and fewer sisters to tell the members of the Father's family in Catholic schools about the burning love of Jesus, who will do it?
You fail to do it yourselves and you burn the bridges for my Son's Movement, Shepherds of Christ. How well do you walk on a burning bridge? The first remark of many priests that heard that God is giving messages is to stay away from them. My children, how will it change?
You will not listen to me, you will not listen to my Son. I appear because the heavenly Father has permitted me to appear on the building in Florida and you do not help my people to give you the message I wish to deliver.
My children, I appear for a reason and I cry out to you. I am your Mother, please listen to me, my children. So many years after Fatima, after so many other apparitions, I appear on a busy corner, my image permanently fixed on a building in Florida, and my children disfigured my face with acid. The acid has been healed and you still do not see.
My children, do you see me there? I am amongst the bustling traffic and I permanently appear. My Son, truly present in the Eucharist, remains with my children. Many churches are closed on His day, but millions and millions go to sports games on Sunday, or would never miss them on the television.
My children, Jesus Christ is your God. Sunday is His day. What does it mean to keep holy the Sabbath Day? Do you sit and pray with your children and tell them about God? Would an earthquake even shake you? When the town of Falmouth was flooded, messages from heaven were given to start prayer chapters there. There was not one Shepherds of Christ Prayer Chapter begun, and to this day the people of Falmouth do not pray the prayers.
I appeared at Fatima and after miracles and apparitions, did the sun coming toward you change your hearts?
On October 13, 1917, there were more than 70,000 people gathered in the Cova da Iria in Fatima, Portugal. They had come to observe a miracle which had been foretold by the Blessed Virgin to three young visionaries: Lucia dos Santos, and her two cousins, Jacinta and Francisco Marto. (1) Shortly after noon, Our Lady appeared to the three visionaries:
As the Lady was about to leave, she pointed to the sun. Lucy excitedly repeated the gesture, and the people looked into the sky. The rain had ceased, the clouds parted, and the sun shone forth, but not in its usual brilliance. Instead, it appeared like a silver disc, pale as the moon, at which all could gaze without straining their eyes. Suddenly, impelled by some mysterious force, the disc began to whirl in the sky, casting off great shafts of multicolored light. Red, green, blue, yellow, violet--the enormous rays shot across the sky at all angles, lighting up the entire countryside for many miles around, but particularly the upturned faces of those 70,000 spellbound people.
After a few moments the wonder stopped, but resumed again a second and a third time--three times in all--within about 12 minutes. It seemed that the whole world was on fire, with the sun spinning at a greater speed each time.
Then a gasp of terror rose from the crowd, for the sun seemed to tear itself from the heavens and come crashing down upon the horrified multitude.... Just when it seemed that the ball of fire would fall upon and destroy them, the miracle ceased, and the sun resumed its normal place in the sky, shining forth as peacefully as ever.
When the people arose from the ground, cries of astonishment were heard on all sides. Their clothes, which had been soaking wet and muddy, now were clean and dry. Many of the sick and crippled had been cured of their afflictions. (2)
The above describes the great miracle which brought to conclusion the series of apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima which took place six times, from May to October 1917. The Miracle of the Sun was the sign God gave to the world in proof of the authenticity of the apparitions. The event was reported in newspapers around the world.
With one exception, Mary always appeared on the 13th of the month, above an holm oak tree in the valley named Cova da Iria. The only deviation from the 13th was the August apparition. During this particular month, Mary appeared to the children near the village of Valinhos on August 19. The children were in jail on the 13th of that particular month. The mayor, in an attempt to stop the events, had had the young visionaries kidnapped and imprisoned, but fearing violence on the part of the people, he soon released them.
(Taken from The Spirituality of Fatima and Medjugorje)
Messenger: 70,000 people witnessed the great miracle of the sun October 13, 1917, and despite the miracle we still do not obey Our Lady of Fatima.
She warned of the events of World War II, if we did not listen.
In reference to the apparition of Our Lady of Fatima, July, 1917, we read from Father Carter's book, The Spirituality of Fatima and Medjugorje, p. 14:
During this same July apparition, Mary 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.
The war (World War I, then raging) is going to end. But if people do not stop offending God, another and worse one will begin in the reign of Pius XI. When you shall see a night illuminated by an unknown light [January 2, 1938], know that this is the great sign that God gives you that He is going to punish the world for its many crimes by means of war, hunger, and persecution of the Church and the Holy Father.
Mary speaks: You want me to paint you a pretty picture. There is not a pretty picture to paint. I ask you to look at the devastating effects of World War II, look at the movies on Private Ryan and The Sinking of the Titanic. Do you see? No, you see what you want to see. You see the romance, you see love, but it isn't love according to the Father's will. Much of it is sin. Do you see the devastation of World War II? When I warned, you would not listen. Watch the documentary on Fatima with Ricardo Montalban. Show your children, "The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima". Your world is corrupt. The message my Son gave you yesterday, March 8, 1999, treats of serious matter.
The message I give you today is equally as serious. Look at yourselves, your seminaries and convents. Look at the religious life. My Son comes to renew His Church and this world and you persecute the messengers and continue your merry way. Only those who boarded the ark survived the flood at the time of Noah. I am the Ark, you must come through my Immaculate Heart. It is the plan of the Father, the Creator. If you continue to not listen, there will be more warnings, they will be strong. In the end you will be on your knees praying and all your televisions will no longer be your god. You will worship your true God. You will love Him, honor Him as the Father intended from the beginning. There will be priests celebrating the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass with hearts on fire for love of God. Many hearts are cold in their love of God, cold and clammy hearts pretending to love God.
Love is as my Son showed you at Calvary. He laid down His life for you. His flesh was torn, His Body beaten and His head crowned with thorns.
My priests, you are to be imitators of Christ. You are to live with His burning love alive in your hearts. You can ignore my message of Fatima, but in the end it will be as my Father intended.
In your stubbornness you will experience great suffering.
Look at the prayers my Son gives (Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual). You do not pray because you do not want to.
You come to see what is wrong with His Shepherds of Christ Movement. Your hearts are closed and this offends Him. You will suffer for not listening.
The prayers being prayed in the Shepherds of Christ have affected the whole Church and the world. To block people praying for priests, and the renewal of the Church and the world is foolish. If your hearts were open, you would join them. You do not know the crucial state your world is in.
Please, my children pray.
Messenger: Seminaries were once full and men wanted to be priests.
MT. ST. MARY'S SEMINARY, now Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center, was shaped like this:
Messenger: After the building corner collapsed:
Messenger: Included are two pictures taken after the corner of the building of the Holy Spirit Center collapsed and was repaired.
Notice the left wing, facing the building is missing.
Q: How can we deepen our love for each other by realizing our relationship with Him, our beloved Spouse?
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