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 21, 2001

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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.

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

Messenger: WE URGENTLY NEED FUNDS TO PUT OUT THE NEXT NEWSLETTER, PRAY FOR THIS AND FOR THE NEWSLETTER AND ALL INVOLVED. 

WE ALSO NEED FUNDS FOR PRAYER MANUALS FOR THE 75,000 PRIESTS.

Messenger: Our Lord has asked us to pray for a special priest and three other special priests and His designated priests.

                  Please pray for the priestly newsletter and for the intentions on the prayer list at the end of the message.

Messenger: Please pray for an urgent intention, spread the blood of Jesus on them, consecrate their hearts, cast the devil far from them, and ask for a special outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

                  A second urgent intention is to pray for the mailing of the newsletter and all involved.  Please pray hourly if possible.

^{Rosary in Iowa - April 24, 2001.}

April 21, 2001

Messenger: When we keep ourselves too busy we don't get
                            time to really be with Jesus.
                       Ideally we would feel that presence as being His
                            Spouse at every second.
                       I had a very close relationship with Father Carter,
                            he was always there in a special way and our
                            hearts were so one in this mission to help save
                            souls and help to bring about the Reign of the Sacred Heart
                            praying for the priests, the Church and the world.
                       Jesus gave me messages and Father firmly believed
                            in the messages.
                      We obeyed the messages and watched the Movement
                            grow.
                       More and more we all united as a family following
                            the messages with a common goal of living
                            as a body united to help save souls.
                       More and more the reality of knowing that there
                            will be this great era of peace when men's
                            hearts will be so one wanting only God's will
                            and loving God as their Father. Men will live
                            as one loving and serving their God.

                       The love we have for each other must be pure love.
                            We cannot be attached to anyone.
                            We experience deep, deep bonds of love with
                            each other as we are one in Him, but our love is pure,
                            holy love according to God's will.
                       The key is God. What is His will for me?

                       The power comes in our connection with God.

                       I love the Blue Books. In opening the Blue Books, He is
                            always there and tells me exactly what I need
                            to hear.
                       In opening the Blue Books, I receive a personal love letter
                            from My beloved spouse. Jesus is this Personal.
                            Jesus is with me now.

                       When problems arise there can be tremendous suffering,
                            but in that suffering is a gift from God if we stay
                            connected to Him and endure the suffering,
                            always keeping our focus that we live for Him and
                            to help save souls.

                       I went to Mass at the Cathedral on Thursday and the priest
                            was so holy. I went into an ecstatic state and connected
                            so deeply with God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
                            To be so deeply united to God, so filled with such
                            deep love of God can produce such a state
                            of emptiness afterward. I feel I am brought back to earth.
                            It is like being in heaven and then being
                            "jerked" back to this earth where I do not feel
                            this intense love and connection.
                       I experience heights of ecstatic union where I exist
                            so deeply in Him and I want to stay there and 
                            never leave, but the reality of being here on earth
                            is soon made very clear to me and dealing with
                            my own imperfections and others can be 
                            a most severe suffering that I must endure.

                       I know love in its heightened form, I long for the
                            intenseness of a grace that He may give me and
                            take me so deep into Himself and yet the
                            time after the experience can be filled with
                            such emptiness because I want it to continue
                            in that deep level where I am so intimately
                            united to Him.

                       Shades of light, shades of darkness.

                       We know what it is to be so united in love to another and
                            we know what it is to be divided from someone we
                            deeply love so much. Our heart feels torn apart when we
                            are divided. The more we grow in oneness with others, 
                            the greater the suffering when we feel divided with them.

                       I know in praying the Shepherd of Christ Prayers, Our Lord
                            has promised to take us deep into His Heart and His
                            Mother's Heart. This is a promise He made to Father
                            Carter July 31, 1994. If I am one in Their Hearts
                            and you are one in Their Hearts, we are deeply 
                            united to each other in Their Hearts. I still remember
                            the words of Father Carter, those last 3 months he had
                            cancer. He ended every conversation with Our Hearts are
                            merged.

                       His depth of knowing love came from His deep love
                            and union with the Divine God.
                       This deep love of God and others is why Our God
                            chose him to be the founder of His Movement
                            Shepherds of Christ.
                       Every book in his library dealt with love and
                            the spiritual life.
                            Every book was centered around relationship.

                       We do not deeply unite to others if we spend
                            all our time trying to protect ourselves
                            so we never become intimately united to others.
                       It is in letting down our walls, in showing
                            others our real selves that many
                            times we see ourselves more clearly and
                            the areas we need to work on.
                       There can be such an attitude of perfection about
                            ourselves that we fail to even realize
                            how over emphasis on our physical appearance
                            can be a block to our spiritual maturity.
                       What will they think when they look at me?

                       The question is what is in the heart as we strive
                            ever more to live according to God's will at
                            every moment?

                       What were we created for? We were created
                            to love and serve Our God.
                       What is the focus of my life?

                       Is my physical appearance my god?

                       Do I care for myself because I want to love and
                            serve God and it is His will for me?    

                       How am I attached to others?

                       What wounds do I have inside from past loving
                            relationships that keep me stuck because
                            I won't look at them and face the truth?

                       Do I write to Jesus daily and tell Him how I
                            feel?

                       Do I realize how helpful the direction Jesus gave to
                            us about writing to Him really is?
                            He told us to share our feelings with Him and
                            open the Blue Books.

                       We can go along a long time keeping busy and not
                            really feeling bad, then we have intimate
                            dealing with each other or become divided
                            with someone we love deeply and then it
                            can be so painful if we haven't spent the
                            time to be connected with Jesus.    

                       Jesus is our Rock.
                       Jesus is the one we come and run to and He is always
                            there.
                       I see myself as His bride.
                       I see myself in white.
                       I see the Lord, my Master, I see Him so many
                            ways, I see Him covered with Blood, His
                            hands tied after they beat Him and I hear
                            Him say "I loved you this much, I died
                            for you."

                       I see Him His arms outstretched hanging on the
                            cross.

April 21, 2001 message continues

Messenger: I see Him say - "I gave My all for love of you."
                     We start to get close to someone and they
                            hurt us and we want to close our arms
                            and say “No one will ever stick me in that
                            wound again.”

                        Where would we all be if we get into what I call
                            the “turtle mode.”

                        We get hurt, someone says something so we
                            say, “Okay I am retreating to safer ground.”

                        LOOK at Jesus dripping with blood on the way
                            to Calavary, He carries a heavy cross on
                            His back, He walks to the bitter end.
                            He falls to the ground, they poke at Him, they
                            beat Him, they make Him bleed. He
                            got up and said “On with the show, to the
                            bitter end, I gave the last drop of
                            Blood for you My beloved”

                        We can’t put our trust in what others think of
                            us.
                        I opened the Blue Book and it said one day they
                            think this, the next day they think something
                            else.
                        We must constantly be ultimately looking at our
                            life in relationship to Him. We see Him,
                            we are strengthened, we know His love.

                        Do you realize that the Divine God is truly present
                            in the Eucharist. When we come to Him
                            before the tabernacle, God is with us, truly
                            present in the Eucharist, in His Divinity and
                            Humanity, no less present than when He
                            walked the earth.

                        So many of us spend our life judging our worth by
                            what others think of us.

Jesus speaks: I tell you a story. There was a man and he spent his
                            whole life trying to build a kingdom here below.
                        His emphasis was trying to win acceptance
                            and love from others.
                        His business dealings were focused on his desire
                            to be loved and accepted by all.
                        His children came second for inside he was
                            very insecure and needed the support and
                            acceptance of others or he didn’t feel
                            good.
                        He worked helping others for the credit he received
                            and didn’t work on himself.
                        He competed in sports to make himself look
                            good.

                        Look at Mary Lou. She was a child in a large family
                            and didn’t have much money. She vowed she
                            would never be poor again.
                            She spent her life trying to win fame and fortune.

                        Look at Felix that spent his life building an empire
                            of big buildings to get more and more wealth
                            to make himself powerful.

                        Look at the little old lady and little old men in the
                            Nursing homes that can help more souls with
                            My little card
                            than the man that selfishly builds building
                            after building after building for his
                            selfish gain.

April 21, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks: Are you blind? Are you self-focused? Do you
                            worship your own body? Are you living
                            to love and serve Me? Do you spend your
                            life working on your relationship with another
                            and then are devastated when they die in
                            a car wreck?

                        What do you have on your mind?
                        What is your greatest possession?
                        What is your motive?

                        Is it fame and fortune that moves you?
                        Is it acceptance?

                        Are you really afraid inside people will not
                            like you?

                        Do you know the power in My Shepherd of Christ
                            Prayers, I promise to take you to the depth
                            of My Heart and My Mothers Heart.
                            There you will find treasures. There you
                            will know more the Fathers
                            will for you.

                        Oh the riches in My Sacred Heart.

                        How can you count them?

                        It is love I desire, it is heartfelt union,
                            I want you to help each other like
                            brothers and sisters for My purpose.

                        Use my Blue Books all through the day. If you want
                            to help your world, help Me circulate My
                            Blue Books, they are My letters of love.

                        Do you build up a kingdom here that could
                            fall to the ground if a wind came
                            by and blew very hard.

                            I am your Rock.

                            I am your Fortress.

                            You must live according to God’s will.
                            There aren’t any short cuts.

                        They struck Me to the ground and I got up
                            time and time again for love of you.

                        So much doesn’t happen because of pride
                            and jealousy, selfishness and greed.

                        What is your motive?
                         Is it pure love?
                        Come into the inner chamber of My Heart and I
                            will refresh you.

Mary speaks: Unless a sufficient number of people consecrate their hearts
                            to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, you will
                            not have peace in the world. Oh my
                            cold hearts, your God is an endless vat of
                            burning love. You measure and treat each
                            other cruel. Many worship false gods. Do you
                            think that pleases Him.

                        I am Mary Immaculate, Queen of the
                            Universe.

Messenger:    Some times I feel abandon by the
                            many people that could help
                            us do what Jesus and Mary
                            asks us to do.

               They focus on me and don’t even see
                    the fruits of our labor or that God
                    is really speaking here.
                    It is sad.
                I am an imperfect human person, but
                    I am a messenger of God and
                    I love Him with all My Heart,
                    I want to please Our God and
                    deliver His message of Love.

                    WE NEED FUNDS!!

Messenger: Jesus asks us to pray for special things.
                Spread the Blood of Jesus, Consecrate their hearts,
                Cast the Devil far away, ask for the coming of the Holy
                     Spirit.

                1)  Pray for urgent intention and all involved.
                2)  Pray for Father Mike and Father Laurentin.
                3)  Pray for special Bishops and Archbishops
                4)  Pray for a special man and son,
                     and family and all involved.
                5)  Pray for all priests, Bishops and Cardinals
                     receiving the Newsletter.
                     Pray for grace for them to respond especially
                     by beginning prayer chapters.
                6)  Pray for the telephone operators.
                7)  Pray for communication and business in
                     general.
                8)  Pray for people to respond to fund letters.
                9)  Pray for money to circulate pictures.

              10)  Pray for funds and grace.
              11)  Pray for all Shepherds of Christ apostles,
                     handmaids, servants.
              12)  Pray for availability Prayer manuals.
              13)  Pray for second priestly Newsletter Book.
              14)  Pray for documentary and all involved.
              15) Pray for special intentions of our donors.

A rosary can be used to pray for healing. It is powerful to unite our prayers to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and pray through the powerful intercession of Our Lady of Clearwater.

In times of trouble, for special prayer, we can use our rosary and pray as follows.

A Rosary for Healing or for Someone with Cancer.

On one Hail Mary bead or as many as you desire, say: 

May God heal                     through the intercession of Our Lady of Clearwater in union with the Mass and all the Masses being celebrated around the world.

Pray the Hail Mary or Hail Mary's then pray this after the Hail Mary.

May the cancer be uprooted and thrown into the sea.

We believe with all our hearts.

After the Glory Be — pray the following petition.

May                     be healed through the intercession of Our Lady of Clearwater if it be the holy will of God.

Note: You can look at Mary on the image rosary while you pray this rosary.

Note: The above section can be printed out from a PDF file, and you can pray the rosary looking at the pictures.

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December 17, 2000, Mary speaks: Help me to circulate my red and blue     Rosary Books and the     prayers my Son gives to you. This is a gift we give you. All the revelations are gifts given to you. My Son is the Light of the World. He is Jesus born in a stable. Will you help me? He is the Light of the World. Help me, help me     reach my children of the world.

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