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.

April 13, 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.

Christ seals the new covenant
with his blood

This makes him the mediator of a new covenant, so that, now that a death has occurred to redeem the sins committed under an earlier covenant, those who have been called to an eternal inheritance may receive the promise.

In all truth I tell you,
whoever keeps my word
will never see death.

The Jews said, ‘Now we know that you are possessed. Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead, and yet you say, "Whoever keeps my word will never know the taste of death." Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? The prophets are dead too. Who are you claiming to be?’ Jesus answered:

If I were to seek my own glory
my glory would be worth nothing;
in fact, my glory
   is conferred by the Father,
by the one of whom you say,
   ‘He is our God,’
although you do not know him.
But I know him,
and if I were to say, ‘I do not know him,’
I should be a liar, as you yourselves are.
But I do know him, and I keep his word.
Your father Abraham rejoiced
to think that he would see my Day;
he saw it and was glad.

The Jews then said, ‘You are not fifty yet, and you have seen Abraham!’ Jesus replied:

In all truth I tell you,
before Abraham ever was,
I am.

At this they picked up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself and left the Temple.

Messenger: One can see the lack of understanding of the people in this gospel concerning Jesus, and today many men do not understand about the life that goes on after death or they would amend their lives.

Sacrifice. Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son. In the Old Testament they offered sacrifice to please their God and to receive His favors. God did not make Abraham sacrifice his son, but He gave us His Son as a sacrifice. Today we offer ourselves to the Father in union with Christ His Son, the most perfect offering.

But now Christ has come, as the high priest of all the blessings which were to come. He has passed through the greater, the more perfect tent, not made by human hands, that is, not of this created order; and he has entered the sanctuary once and for all, taking with him not the blood of goats and bull calves, but his own blood, having won an eternal redemption. The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkled on those who have incurred defilement, may restore their bodily purity. How much more will the blood of Christ, who offered himself, blameless as he was, to God through the eternal Spirit, purify our conscience from dead actions so that we can worship the living God.

Messenger: We do not sufficiently realize that the human race as a whole has sinned and we must make reparation to God for our sins. We do not offer sacrifice only for our sins. We come as a member of the human race to tell God we are sorry as a race for offending Him and beg His forgiveness and mercy. God is the I Am. We offer sacrifice for our sins and the sins of all men. God is offended by our sins, we want to be reconciled to God. We say we are sinful and are sorry.

At the consecration I give myself totally to Him to unite in this holy Sacrifice, to be one with Jesus in offering this Sacrifice to the Father for my sins and the sins of the whole human race. I tell God I am sorry we have offended Him. I mount the altar of sacrifice and unite with Jesus Himself, Chief Priest and Victim, in offering myself to the Father. I beg, I plead, I want to be so pure, being united to Him in the Pure and Holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary to offer a most holy Sacrifice.

This is the most pleasing sacrifice we can offer to the Father, the sacrifice of His Son.

The emotion in our hearts swells, begging God to outpour grace and mercy on the earth.

I see the youth and all the needs of the people of God. I beg Him for grace and mercy.

Oh Jesus, I pray I can write more and more completely about this great gift you give in this Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

Oh that the children would know, the people in the nursing homes, know of this great sacrifice offered continually to our God and the great benefits derived from our recognition of how fully we can unite to it in our daily lives.

Oh God, help me.

Jesus speaks: Oh my daughter, I commission you to write as I have so directed, immediately, for the time is nigh. The people of the earth must dispose themselves to the offering of this most holy gift to their God and unite in their every waking moment, in every moment of their lives, to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

I commission you and your Founder to do this, to do this most assuredly through the priestly newsletter. I want people to partake more fully in offering sacrifice to their God.

Oh, My child, the flood gates of heaven will open wide as never before and the grace will rain on the earth when you pray as I have instructed you to pray.

My child, I commission you and your Founder to circulate the priestly newsletter in English and Spanish to all lands, to the priests, to the world. I commission you to circulate the Mass Books and that the second Mass Book be put together immediately.I BEG YOU DO NOT DELAY.I want the Mass Book I with Imprimatur published immediately and widely circulated. I do not want any more delays, this is a sword in your Father’s side. The sinful race offers to Him their God great sacrifice when they unite all day to the Mass.

Go to the ill, the nursing homes, tell them to offer up their suffering as a sacrifice to the Father in My name for grace and mercy to be outpoured on the earth. Pray in the Holy Spirit through the intercession of the Virgin Mary with all the angels and saints.

If this is too much for them to pray, tell them, to give their lives to God, make their lives an offering, united to the Mass, for grace and mercy for all souls of the earth.

Jesus speaks: I SAY THIS:

At the consecration UNITE AS A BODY telling God you are sorry for your sins and praying as one body with Me with consecrated hearts. Give your hearts to Our two Hearts. Beg for grace and mercy for your earth.

If you are reading this, I am calling you to be so united to Me in this Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. I call so strongly to you, My beloved members of My Church.

Help Me, My children, children of God, help Me, please help Me.

My world, help Me publish this material to reach the souls.

I am revealing as never before the secrets of My Heart. I am instructing you to offer a holy, pure Sacrifice to your God for your sins.

And you cry out in the LAMB of God. Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have MERCY ON US. HAVE MERCY ON US, GRANT US PEACE.

Plead and beg. I took all the sins of the human race on My back, I gave Myself for your sins.

You as a people have offended your God.

Only grace granted from God will help to change the earth.

You must pray as I have instructed. Pray My prayers given.

Unite in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

Pray the Morning Offering.

The Body of Christ, My Church, united in the Mass pleading this way to your God, making atonement for sins, will help bring down great grace for your world.

Only grace will help you. You must pray and unite as a body as never before, telling God you are sorry for your sins and offering sacrifice. You unite in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

I am the Chief Priest and Victim -- you unite to My Sacrifice offered. This is a most pleasing sacrifice offered to your God.

Excerpt from Priestly Newsletter Issue #1, 1999

"Through the Eucharistic Sacrifice Christ the Lord desired to set before us in a very special way this remarkable union whereby we are united one with another and with our divine Head, a union that no word of praise can ever sufficiently express. For in this sacrifice the sacred ministers act not only as the representative of our Saviour, but as the representative of the whole Mystical Body and of each one of the faithful. Again, in this act of sacrifice, the faithful of Christ, united by the common bond of devotion and prayer, offer to the eternal Father through the hands of the priest, whose prayer alone has made it present on the altar, the Immaculate Lamb, the most acceptable victim of praise and propitiation for the Church's universal need. Moreover, just as the divine Redeemer, while dying on the Cross, offered Himself to the eternal Father as Head of the whole human race, so now, 'in this clean oblation' He not only offers Himself as Head of the Church to His heavenly Father but in Himself His mystical members as well. He embraces them all, yes, even the weaker and more ailing members, with the deepest love of His Heart. (Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis AAS, XXXV, 232-233) ¹⁶

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¹⁶Pope Pius XII, Encyclical Letter, Mystici Corporis, AAS, XXXV, pp 232-233.

(End of excerpt from Priestly Newsletter)

And if you address as Father him who judges without favouritism according to each individual’s deeds, live out the time of your exile here in reverent awe. For you know that the price of your ransom from the futile way of life handed down from your ancestors was paid, not in anything perishable like silver or gold, but in precious blood as of a blameless and spotless lamb, Christ. He was marked out before the world was made, and was revealed at the final point of time for your sake. Through him you now have faith in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory for this very purpose—that your faith and hope should be in God.

Seek Yahweh,
all you humble of the earth,
who obey his commands.
Seek uprightness,
seek humility:
you may perhaps find shelter
on the Day of Yahweh’s anger.

But in you I shall leave surviving
a humble and lowly people,
and those who are left in Israel
will take refuge in the name of Yahweh.
They will do no wrong,
will tell no lies;
nor will a deceitful tongue
be found in their mouths.
But they will be able to graze and rest
with no one to alarm them.

From The Spirituality of Fatima and Medjugorje:

The angel came...bearing a golden chalice in one hand and a Host above it in the other. The amazed children noticed that drops of blood were falling from the Host into the chalice. Presently, the angel left both suspended in mid-air and prostrated himself on the ground, saying this beautiful prayer: “Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly. I offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifference by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and [the intercession of] the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of Thee the conversion of poor sinners.” ⁵

Sr. Lucia relates how the angel gave them Communion:

Then, rising, he took the chalice and the Host in his hand. He gave the Sacred Host to me and shared the Blood from the chalice between Jacinta and Francisco, saying as he did so:

“Take and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly outraged by ungrateful men! Make reparation for their crimes and console your God.” ⁶

5. Our Lady of Fatima’s Peace Plan from Heaven (Rockford: TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., 1983).  p.2.
6. Fatima in Lucia’s Own Words (Fatima: Postulation Center, 1976), p.62. Distributed in the U.S.A. by the Ravengate Press, Cambridge, MA., pp.64-65.

Jesus speaks: I ask you to include the Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. I ask you to include the Morning Offerings.

Let me be a holy sacrifice and unite with God in the sacrament of His greatest love.

Morning Offering

My dear Father, I offer you this day all my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings in union with Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world, in the Holy Spirit.

I unite with our Mother Mary, all the angels and saints, and all the souls in purgatory to pray to the Father for myself, for each member of my family, for my friends, for all people throughout the world, for all the souls in purgatory, and for all other intentions of the Sacred Heart.

I love You, Jesus, and I give You my heart. I love you, Mary, and I give you my heart.

Morning Offering (for Shepherds of Christ Members)

My dear Father, I offer You this day all my prayers, works, joys and sufferings, my every breath, my every heartbeat, my every thought, all my actions, in union with Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world, in the Holy Spirit. I pray the Holy Spirit is with me every second today, enlightening me to do the will of the Father and filling me with the fire of God's love.

I ask Jesus and Mary to be one in me in all that I do and I unite with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory to pray continually to the Father for these intercessions, in this prayer, for this day.

For myself, I pray for grace-abundant grace, to know and love God more and more and to follow the will of the Father. I pray to the Holy Spirit to transform me in the heart of Mary to be more and more like Jesus. I pray that I can forever dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. I pray for conversion of all those I hold dear who need conversion. I pray for each member of my family that they will be filled with Your abundant grace to grow in their knowledge and love of God.

I pray for all my friends that they will receive abundant grace to carry out the great plan of the Father, that they will grow forever closer to Jesus' Heart through Mary's heart, that we will all be led by the Holy Spirit to do His work, that we will, together, carry out the plan of the Father as He intends us to, to spread the love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary's heart to this world.

Jesus, I pray for myself so the Holy Spirit descends upon me and opens my heart to Your love so I will grow more and more deeply in union with You. I pray that I do not worry what other people think but try always to please the Father and do His will. I pray that I may help lead many to Your burning love.

I pray for the following people in particular that they will be filled with the Spirit and grow deeply in their union with You, that they will receive abundant graces to know, love and serve You more. (Include special friends by name...)

I pray for priests the world over, for the success of the Priestly Newsletter, the Chapters and for the finances needed for the Newsletter. I pray for the circulation of the Blue Book messages, rosary meditations and tapes. I pray for all those involved in the publication of these messages.

I pray that You will shower Your abundant graces onto the priests reading the Newsletter the people reading and hearing the Blue Book messages and Rosary Meditations and all of Fr. Carter's publications.

We pray for the intentions we hold deep within our hearts, for our families and friends, for those requesting our prayers. We pray for children the world over and for the souls in purgatory. We ask God to shower His abundant grace on us and the members of our Shepherds of Christ chapter so that we may grow more and more in our knowledge and love of God.

We consecrate ourselves to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. We pray for Father Carter, for Father Smith, for Rita Ring, and for John Weickert, for all leaders and helpers in the Shepherds of Christ Movement, for Shepherds of Christ Ministries, and Our Lady of Light Ministry. We pray for all those who are working in these ministries.

We bind ourselves and our children and our friends to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. We place the precious blood of Jesus on ourselves, and all we touch, so that we will be protected from the evil one. We pray to St. Michael to cast the devil into hell.

We love You, God, we love You, we love You. We beg that we may receive the grace to love You more and more deeply. We adore You, we praise You, our beloved Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Jesus speaks: I ask you to pray the Divine Mercy Prayers at 3:00 remembering the Masses going on and uniting to them and praying all prayers pleading from your heart. Think of all praying with you.

I ask you to pray 6:20 prayers uniting as a body praying with all your heart, united to the Masses offered at that time.