April 7, 2020

R. The devil works in this fear –
The devil has attached with
fear so men are so afraid
all over the earth they
have trouble praying –
Don't give into this!! Satan's
grip is paralyzing and crippling.
 

Excerpt from December 19, 1996

R. ...And the light shown in the darkness and the darkness grasped it not, but to as many as responded, they became the children of the light and from them His life flowed into the hearts that were cold and dark and slowly, very slowly, the light began to steal across the darkened sky and the moon was covered with blood. The blood was the blood of the Lamb. The blood represented the blood He shed to give us life. But the blind just saw ordinary blood and were scared to death. They responded with the greatest fright and lacked peace, but those rooted in God, those whose hearts were consecrated to Mary and Jesus, knew the sign was from God—that the time of reckoning was at hand. Many were punished and suffered a great chastisement. Many were left to death, but the children of light prayed the rosary and trusted in God... end of excerpt

   

Excerpt from December 22, 1996

Jesus:  ...And the moon will be covered with blood. It was the blood of the Lamb and it poured forth on a sinful world to cleanse them of their sin, and I give you My Body and Blood in the Mass and I am ignored... end of except

 

R. God is All Powerful.

    It would be helpful to read
Blue Book 13 December 5, 1996 up to
and including the Father's messages
in January 1997 – (Blue Book 14)

    We were trained by Jesus
to pray united to the Masses.
Shepherds of Christ members need to be
praying this virus goes away –
Spreading families, Church,
United States, world, Shepherds of Christ people
with the Blood of Jesus,
casting the devil into hell –
praying for the Holy Spirit and consecrating
hearts to Jesus and Mary.

    Please pray prayers on
Daily Message daily –

    Also Holy Spirit Novena and
Shepherds of Christ Prayers –

    We pray daily 12 - 3
live on radio and 6:20.
Please PRAY for
a miracle –
Spread the Blood of Jesus.
Use the Blue Books
    especially December 1996
                  January 1997.

Exodus 12: 7, 11-13

Some of the blood must then be taken and put on both door-posts and the lintel of the houses where it is eaten.

... You must eat it hurriedly: it is a Passover in Yahweh's honour. That night, I shall go through Egypt and strike down all the first-born in Egypt, man and beast alike, and shall execute justice on all the gods of Egypt, I, Yahweh! The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are. When I see the blood I shall pass over you, and you will escape the destructive plague when I strike Egypt.

 

R. They conquered satan with
    the Blood of the Lamb
    and the word of their
    testimony –

    Unite to Mass in Morning
Offering –

    Spread the Blood of Jesus
    Cast the devil into hell
    Consecrate hearts to
Jesus and Mary –

This is serious –
    before Mary appeared
    December 17, 1996 in
    Clearwater –
    Jesus appeared on the
    cross at the point of death
    December 5, 1996
    because He said
    "No one was listening."

 

March 21, 2020

Jesus: Crucifixes should be made available with image glass through Shepherds of Christ

This needs to be a wood crucifix, different sizes, with the image glass under the feet on the crucifix.

Mary says: I stood beneath the cross of my Son and my heart was in such sorrow for my little ones who would lose their souls forever.
 

Mary: Please help this happen that people have crucifixes and people pray in prayer with the image glass in their homes and Churches, schools.

The image glass comes from my broken image glass in Clearwater.

R. This Coronavirus is an invisible horrible enemy like the devil.

Pray for a miracle.

Intercession of Our Lady of Clearwater.

Fr. Carter

Little Child Jesus of Good Health.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
I place my trust in Thee.

Dear Father united to Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present, celebrated around the world, in the Holy Spirit. We offer up all we do united to the Mass. We unite in one mind and one heart as members of the mystical body of Christ, with Christ our head in the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary, through the powerful intercession of Mary with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory, and we beg for the saving grace, for our country, the United States. Please help us. We further pray for unity to always do the will of God in love. We spread the Blood of Jesus on the leaders and people of the United States and cast the devil into hell. We consecrate our country to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart and all our dioceses, and beg for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. God help us. We pray for our families, the priests, the Church and the world. In the Name of Jesus please hear us, we pray. We pray for our president and leaders. We pray that we are united as one nation under God to work together in love as God wants.  

March 12, 2020

R. Let’s all try to say our Morning Offering.

Dear Father we offer our prayers, works, joys and sufferings today. In the name of Jesus, in the Holy Spirit, through the powerful intersession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory - united to the Mass going on around the world - for the priests, the Church and the world, also for our country, leaders, family.

We pray for this virus going around, so it is terminated.

We pray united to our retreat in China and Florida today and tomorrow.
We are sorry for our sins, God.

I pray for Fr. Joe and all of us and all our intentions, for everybody that asked us to pray for them and everyone we promised to pray for.
We pray for the funds we need and all mailings God wants us to do.

Dear God help us.

Through the intercession of Our Lady of Clearwater.

All for the honor and glory of God.

Amen.

  

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.

March 16, 2020

                R. We need to pray for Consecration of
                    all the world and country to the
                    Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart.

                Remember

                    (1) Pray united to Mass.

                    (2) Pray Morning Offering.

                    (3) Consecrate world, Church, priests
                    to Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart
                    (Consecrate your families, homes,
                    Shepherds of Christ family)

                    (4) Spread the Blood of Jesus

                    (5) Ask for the Holy Spirit

                    (6) Pray for grace

            (7) Stay united to each other
                    praying.

                    (8) Cast devil into hell –
 

                We are the Shepherds of Christ we know how
                    to pray –

                    Do these things

                    Pray to the Father in the Name of Jesus,
                    with all the angels and saints, in the
                    Holy Spirit united to the Mass, through
                    the powerful intercession of
                    Mary, Our Lady of Clearwater.

                Use the Blue Books –

                Pray the Rosaries in the Blue Books,
                    Red Rosary Book etc. –

                Pray, Pray, Pray –

                Make everything you do a
                    prayer.
  

Novena to the Infant of Prague
(to be prayed hourly if possible)

          O Jesus, who said, "Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you," through the intercession of Mary, Your most holy Mother, I knock, I seek, I ask that my prayer be granted. 

          O Jesus, who said, "All that you ask of the Father in My Name He will grant you," through the intercession of Mary, Your most holy Mother, I humbly and urgently ask Your Father in Your Name that my prayer be granted. 

          O Jesus, who said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My word shall not pass," through the intercession of Mary, Your most holy Mother, I feel confident that my prayer will be granted.

 

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                R. We must consecrate the world to the
                    Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart.

 

                R. Use Waters

                Statue with glass. 

May 16, 1998 - Prayer to the Father

My Father,

        With my whole heart I desire to consecrate the whole world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I wish with my whole being for the salvation of souls and that man live according to Thy Holy Will. I pray my Father that we may be one in You and Your Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit that we may intercede to You for this cause.

        It is this burning desire within my soul to spread the consecration to the far ends of the earth, that the cries of Your children are cries of glory and honor and adoration, praising God as their God.

        My Father, at this moment a soul hangs on the edge of death. For all eternity they will go to a place. It is not the plot of this soul as it trods this barren land to decide on the edge of death. You created us that we would grow in our oneness with God, that we would mature more and more in our image and likeness to God.

        And so My Father, I pray with every cell in my body for this earth. In the name of Your Son Jesus I consecrate all the souls of this earth to the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the Holy Spirit in union with the Holy sacrifice of the Mass with all the angels and saints and the souls in Purgatory.

        I beg You Father for mercy.
        I beg You Father for assistance.
        I beg You Father to help us to spread this consecration to the far ends of the earth.

        Please help us. We are helpless little ones coming in the heart of our Mother, bleeding from our wounds and our sins.

        Your Son, Jesus Christ, shed the last drop of His Blood for the salvation of mankind. We wish to unite in this sacrifice, sacramentally made present in the Mass all over the world at every moment. Help us to make reparation to You for the sins of men.

        Please my Father, help us. Held in the heart of Mary and the Heart of Jesus we come as the children of Eve to beg for the Reign of the Sacred Heart and the Triumph of Mary's heart. Look upon our love, Your shepherds in the Shepherds of Christ, our sacrifices and devotion to You Our Beloved Father. Come by the means of the Holy Spirit and sanctify us and make us whole, that we are one in Your Son Jesus, praying to You, Father, in the name of Your Son Jesus in the Holy Spirit united with all the angels and saints, in the heart of Mary. We beg for help for special intentions concerning the Movement. We beg for help to reach the Churches to give these prayers of Jesus to them, to reach the schools and the family. Help we cry as poor banished children of Eve. Help us Father to do this work the Good Shepherd has entrusted to us. Help us to be one in You that we act as intercessors to help this world to be turned to God as their God, loving, honoring and adoring Him as the Lord of Host is truly present on His throne.

        We are Your children Father, we implore You to answer our prayer.
        We love You, we worship You, we adore You, we thank you and we sing from the bottom of our hearts, Holy God we Praise Your Name. Alleluia     end of excerpt
   
 

        Say Daily

A Prayer to be united more firmly to the Heavenly Family

Dear God the Father and Our Blessed Mother Mary, 

I recognize you as the Father and Mother of me and my family. I ask you to father and mother me and my family. I am completely dependent on you.

I love you so much. Holy Spirit descend on me and my family. My beloved brother Jesus, help me to be more like you and live as a son of God.

 

Prayer for Parents (pray daily)

O heavenly Father and Blessed Virgin Mary, help us to teach our children the right way you desire us to live, always living according to the Father's will. 

Help us be united as one and to teach them (our children) your ways and to act always in the name of Jesus in the Holy Spirit.

Help us to have unity in our family and live in God.

We give our family to you. We want to act as you desire us to, please help us.

We consecrate our hearts and the hearts of all our children and their children to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

We ask that ourselves and our family be spread with the Blood of Jesus.

We cast out Satan far from our family.

We beg for the coming of the Holy Spirit.

 

  Divine Mercy Chaplet

  Begin with:

  Our Father..., Hail Mary..., The Creed.

  On the five large beads:

  Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity
  of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ in atonement
  for our sins and those of the whole world.

  On the ten small beads:

  For the sake of His sorrowful Passion have mercy on us
  and on the whole world.

  Conclude with repeating three times:

  Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One,
  have mercy on us and on the whole world.

Jesus I place my trust in Thee.
 
 

  August 19, 1997

The Resurrection

R. And so we see Jesus came forth victorious from the tomb, but we do not realize that we are to live His life, death and resurrection in our life. One day it may seem as if we are dying inside, suffering from the greatest pain, and the next day the light steals across the sky and we see that the victory is won. The Father said, “the movement will blossom in the spring.” The phones are ringing off the hook and we cannot keep the people supplied with the materials. We do not have funds in order to do all the things that Jesus has asked us to do, and so many people are calling. Jesus has separated the sheep from the goats. Jesus gives us the truth. Jesus has rooted out the good and the bad fruit. The bad fruit has fallen from the tree and what remains is the good fruit – the fruit that knows that this is the truth.

    Alleluia! Hosanna in the Highest - for He has come and given us new life!

 

The Ascension

R. Jesus comes to us in the quiet of the darkest night and He lifts our ruffled feathers and He smoothes them out and we know His peace and His love. Where there was anguish and suffering and our screams were screams that were so deep within our soul that we thought we could not last but just screamed out, He came with His gentle and His soft touch and He wiped our weary brow and He relieved us of our suffering and pain. And He leaves us a garden filled with the most beautiful flowers and He gave to us a cool breeze and we were washed by the cool of the night and we felt His love deep within our hearts and we know that He lives and that He is alive this day.

Jesus: Come away with Me, My young ones. Come into the field and taste of the beauty of the air and the beauty of this day with the most beautiful flowers that I have created for you. Do you see the beauty in each petal of the flower, or are your eyes covered with mud that you do not see? I have lifted the veil for you today and I have showed you My way. My way is the way of trust and faith and I told you in the message on Sunday that you must have faith and endurance, for I took you to the darkest night to the pointiest tunnel, to the place where you thought that you would never return and at that point I opened up through a little hole the light of day and it came streaming in and you perceived and you felt My presence, which is greater than all the things of this earth.

    Wipe the grin off your face you silly earth, for you have ran after so many foolish things, when I stood there adorned in white before you, in the most glorious robes and you did not perceive that the Almighty God was alive and so I have called and I have told you and I have allowed you, My shepherds, to suffer, but the days ahead will be days of great victory, for I come to you clothed in white and adorned in a gold veil and you see that God lives and you will carry the white flag across this earth. You My shepherds, have won and the victory is yours.

    Did you fall in the mud and did you skin your knees, did you feel your head ache as Mine ached in the garden, did you feel the thorns poke deeply into your skull, and did you feel the ripping of your flesh as the sword went into your skin?

    I am Jesus, I am God, I will not be undone. I am Almighty and all powerful to the ends of the earth. You will know My might and you will not be afraid, but you will not know this if you do not trust, for I have told you the secrets in My messages, but you do not read as if you believe, you read half heartedly. You must believe with all your heart that I speak to you to be heard, for you truly are the shepherds that will go across this earth and carry the white flag, but you do not have this conviction within your heart, so therefore you do not do all that I have asked you to do, your belief is wishy-washy and you do not believe with a conviction of a strong heart.

    I am calling you My shepherds this night to renew your faith and your endurance to realize that I am God and I have spoken here to you this evening. I am alive, I am alive, I am alive and I am with you, I am your God.

    You wanted the light all the time and the light was not in the plan of the Father. It comes in light and it comes in darkness, it comes in death and it comes in victory, it comes in death and it comes in Resurrection, it comes in pain, and it comes in joy, but this world tells you today to look for only the joy and when you do not find it to do everything that you can to fill your selfish pleasurish whims that you have within you.

    I tell you that you must fall to your knees, that your knees will be scuffed and that you will suffer and your flesh will be torn and your head will be crowned with thorns, but you will come forth from the tomb with a veil of white across your face and you will say this is the victory that we have won because we have lived in Him.

 

Descent of the Holy Spirit Upon the Apostles

R. The Mass is the Sacrifice of Calvary, sacramentally made present. Every word is rooted in the truth and every word spoken must be that in which there is great feeling for it is the greatest way that we can share our immense love with God when we give ourselves to Him as we unite in a spousal union with Him.

    But many in the Church are blind for they do not comprehend what is going on at the Mass. From the beginning to the end it is this immense love affair that a soul has with the Almighty God. Many times when I go to Mass I am so wrapped in the presence of God and when the homily begins it is a homily that is rooted deeply in the head with lots of thinking and lots of facts. It is a homily that does not tie together anything about the relationship between me and Jesus – this personal love relationship, and this pulls me out of my heart as I am forced to listen to the loud speaking and to try to think and to follow with what he is speaking about. I know this so well, but I cannot express what I am saying in my heart. Day after day I go to Mass and day after day I am so excited to go in there and to share deeply in the mystery of His love and my heart is filled with the greatest joy to be there, to know that I will be so one with my Divine lover, and I go there, and I start to cry many times and I am filled up with such love and I know of the grace that I am receiving – the sharing in His life – and I hear the Word of God and I cry because every word rings within me and I feel the feelings, the words that are in the Scriptures, the feeling words that are used, the talking about the heart, the talking about despair, the talking about fear, the talking about all feeling words and the priest gets up and the priest begins to speak about facts – a train of facts, things that are following, line after line and then, when he speaks, many times he draws the people to finding God in other people and skipping intimate union with God – to go out and to do good works, when in the Mass, we are to be focused on our love relationship with God and it is so upsetting because it is almost like we should hurry up through the Mass and go out and encounter God in others and we ignore the connection that God is right there wanting to give Himself to us and wanting us to give ourselves to Him.

    There are so many things that happened at the homily at the Mass. Not that I am above him – what I am doing is accounting what Our Lord is saying and knowing what Our Lord is saying about the Priestly Newsletter and why it is important that we pray for the holy priests, why it is important that the priests give their hearts in consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary and be taken deeply into the Heart of Christ where they know God most intimately because now, as it is, is it love or is it on the surface with the head? For once they give their hearts to Jesus, especially saying this consecration from the Shepherds of Christ in which Jesus promised a great grace, once they give their heart to Jesus and pray this consecration, it takes them into His Heart and they join more and more in an intimate union with Him.

    It is so frustrating to go to Mass because I can be so connected in the Heart of Jesus and then the homily comes and I am just knocked out into whatever level the homily is at, talking about whatever – going out – doing good, and forgetting to make a connection at all that Christ is there. The priest this week said, “Christ is not here, we have to go out and find him in others” and I couldn’t believe it! I was all set in my heart to be so intimate with Jesus and then it was like the rest of the Mass was so hurried, let’s hurry up and get out of here and encounter Christ in one another. We have a job to do, given to us by Jesus Christ, to help lead the priests through this Priestly Newsletter in which we are using this as a teaching tool, through Fr. Carter.

    Humility is truth and that does not mean that we must hide the gifts that were given to us. The gifts that He gives to us is to be shared with this world and we are to be most grateful for these gifts. We must thank God from the depths of our hearts for allowing us to know Him more intimately, not that we know it all, we have an immense way to go for God is infinite, but He is unveiling the scriptures to us, He is taking us deeply into His Heart and letting us know Him more intimately and we must share this gift with others for the gift is not given to us to hide under a bushel basket – it is given to us to put it on a lamp-stand and let it shine to all in the house.

Jesus: It is in prayer, hourly prayer and begging for the funds, realizing that it is in your prayer, that it is in your endurance, that it is in your faith and your sacrifices that your prayers will be answered. You must pray hourly the Novena to the Infant of Prague and I will answer your prayers, and you, My beloved ones, will know the results when you pray.

 

Mary is Assumed into Heaven

R. Satan is working to try to block this. I know that all kinds of things go wrong. And, when it gets worse you kept trudging ahead with all the battle wounds all over you, but it is because I recognize that satan is working. If I didn’t recognize that I would feel like running in a corner and screaming out in despair. God is revealing to us what we need in order to move ahead, believe me, brothers and sisters - this is His mission.

    I know they say things about me - but it doesn’t make any difference for the truth is there. He is speaking here to us. He has separated the sheep from the goats. And He said the rotten fruit would fall to the ground and all that would remain would be the fruit of heaven.

    We should see substantial growth now that this has happened. Think of the 13th of September when Fr. Carter celebrated the Mass and last Sunday we got the card that has Father as the Pillar of Light and we could send it with that John Bosco vision - a Dream.

    This will make us stronger than ever because it will sound like, “you have been tested and you have been tried and you have been found okay”.

    Let us have the vision in our heart - the vision that Christ wants us to have that we are the apostles that will help to majorly spread devotion to the Eucharist throughout the land. And that is why He has given us all this immense love of Jesus in the Eucharist. You know how it is - you know how you love Him so much in the Eucharist – that is the grace He is giving to us so that we will spread this devotion to the far ends of the earth. Wait till you see what happens in the Shepherds of Christ Movement to lead the souls to the Eucharist!

    Believe and we will move ahead. There is only one place to go - it is to Him. “I am the way, the truth and the life” – and what He gives to us here, is the truth. It was somebody in our core group and they said, “oh it is really good,” And so He said, one day they wane in and out - one day one way and another day - another way. We don’t do it that way. We know the truth from the Mass, from the Eucharist, from the Scriptures. It is the same mind that writes.

 

Excerpt from the Priestly Newsletter July/August 1997

Thoughts on the Eucharist

St. Peter Julian Eymard, founder of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers, tells us:

“It is true also that the world does all in its power to prevent us from loving Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament with a real and practical love, to prevent us from visiting Him, and to cripple the effects of this love.

“The world engrosses the attention of souls; it finds and enslaves them with external occupations in order toeter them from dwelling too long on the love of Jesus.

“It even fights directly against this practical love and represents it as optional, as practicable at most only in a convent.

“And the devil wages incessant warfare on our love for Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament.

“He knows that Jesus is there, living and substantially present; that by Himself He is drawing souls and taking direct possession of them. The devil tries to efface the thought of the Eucharist in us, and the good impression made by it; for in his mind, that should decide the issue of the struggle.

“And yet God is all love.

“This gentle Savior pleads with us from the Host: ‘Love Me as I have loved you; abide in My love! I came to cast the fire of love on the earth and My most ardent desire is that it should set your hearts on fire.”7

7. St. Peter Julian Eymard, The Real Presence: Eucharistic Meditations, published by Eymard League, as in The Treasury of Catholic Wisdom, Fr. John Hardin, S.J. ed., Ignatius Press, p. 584.

 

Scriptural Reflection

    Why Should We Be Afraid? “Can you not buy five sparrows for two pennies? And yet not one is forgotten in God’s sight. Why, every hair on your head has been counted. There is no need to be afraid: you are worth more than hundreds of sparrows”. (Lk 12:6-7)

    The fear of financial insecurity, the fear of not being accepted by others, the fear of professional failure, anxiety concerning whether one is capable of handling an inevitable crisis, the spectre of academic failure, the fear of being rejected in love- these are a few of the myriad worries and anxieties which can burden people along the varied path of life which now twists and turns, now stretches out straight, now descends into the valley, now ascends where the horizon can be clearly seen. To encounter circumstances during the course of life which can give rise to worry and anxiety is to be expected. To allow various fears to conquer us and rob us of basic peace of mind is to react incorrectly. To face fears and worries with Christian courage and trust, and thus fundamentally control them, is to live by the words of Jesus.

    To react incorrectly to fear-causing occasions can give rise to all sorts of problems. It can obviously detract considerably from one’s joy. It can stunt personality growth, lessening our attractiveness to others. It can disturb mental and physical health. It can prevent us from being proper witnesses to the fact that we are the bearers of the Good News, of the fact that Jesus’ truth is meant to make us free from all sorts of enslavements, including morbid fear and worry.

    Why, then, don’t we decide once and for all to take Jesus at His word? He tells us not to worry. He tells us to flee from anxiety. He loves us. His Father loves us. The Holy Spirit loves us. They love us much more than we love ourselves. Their love can cut through the bonds of any fear, any worry, any anxiety. Yes, Their love can do this, if we so permit. end of excerpt
 

R. Do you hear the priests speak about the feelings in the Mass - about the things of the heart? This is the purpose of the Priestly Newsletter – to lead the priests into the hearts. Think about the Age of the Two Hearts in which men will be living from their hearts. It is through the Newsletter that the priests will be led into their hearts as Jesus teaches them. It is through consecration that priests are brought into their hearts.

 

Mary is Crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth

Excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima

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

    Because of the excitement caused by the apparitions, the civil authorities were so alarmed that they kidnapped the three young visionaries and put them in jail. The incarceration period included the day of August 13. Consequently, Our Lady did not appear to the children on this particular 13th. The authorities, fearing reaction on the part of the people, quickly released the children. Mary appeared to them on August 19 near Valinhos:

    She told them she was greatly displeased by the action of the mayor. As a result, the miracle promised for October would not be as impressive as originally planned. 15

15. Our Lady of Fatima’s Peace Plan from Heaven (Rockford: TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., 1983), p. 6.

R. Today is August 19th. Today is the feast day of a great saint that loved the Sacred Heart so. Today is the day that Mary appeared to the three children at Fatima. She appeared on the 13th of every month but she appeared on the 19th of August because they had been locked in jail.

    Jesus has taught us how to be people that can pray and that He will truly respond to these prayers. Jesus has given to us a great gift and a great suffering and now He gives to us a greater gift for He opened up the heavens and in all of our sufferings, He came forth all in white and in victory.

Jesus: Your Movement will spread forth to the far ends of the earth, but it is faith that I am calling you to My beloved ones, you must have faith in your hearts, for this is a sign that I give to you this day. If you do not believe, you will not be able to continue ahead, for you must move ahead in faith. It is the only way that you must operate. You cannot operate trying to logically think your way across this world. It is only in believing and obeying the messages that the job will get done. It is My might that will lead this Movement to the far corners of the earth. Open your pockets and let us see your money. Do you have the money to do the things that I have asked you to do? It is in prayer, hourly prayer and begging for the funds, realizing that it is in your prayer, that it is in your endurance, that it is in your faith and your sacrifices that your prayers will be answered. You must pray hourly the Novena to the Infant of Prague and I will answer your prayers, and you My beloved ones will know the results when you pray.

Song: This is Holy Ground

Jesus: I have given to you the greatest gift this day. I am Jesus, and I have come to you and I have asked you to open wide your heart and to thank Me for the gift I have given, for if the answer would have been different how would your hearts be this night, and how was it with the lepers, when I gave to them the great gift and they did not come and say thanks, but you are My holy ones that I am sending into this world and your hearts must be filled with joy. I have asked you over and over again to sing to Me with a heart that is filled with joy. I have given to you songs that I wrote Myself for you to sing of the love of My Heart. I am Jesus, the Son of God and you are the apostles of this new era. As you go out into the dark night the light will shine behind you and many will know the light of My Heart. Do not be discouraged, for the very hairs of your head are numbered and I am with you at this very moment, guarding and watching you, give Me your heart My shepherds. I have given to you a great gift this day, give Me your thanks and continue to pray. It is through prayer that you will accomplish all that the Father intends you to accomplish.

    I am Jesus, the Son of God. I have chosen you, I have called you and you will accomplish the work that the Father intends you to through prayer. Do not be discouraged, but encouraged for I am God and I am with you. Think of how it was before, when you did not share your love with so many others, but I have given you each other and I have bound your hearts in one heart and you come here because your hearts are filled with great joy. The more you love and the more the Movement spreads, the more will be the blessings, for as the love expounds and gets larger, the love is more full, for your love is rooted in Me and the more you love deeply the more full the love you will have. This is how it will be, one body in Me, and you will love many and you will know them deeply in your heart and your heart is full My shepherds, because I have taught you My ways of love and given you each other. You are My holy family and I love you. I have called you and so you say “why me?”, and I say to you “why this Saint, or that Saint or why the Blessed Mother, why were you called?”. You were called because I love you and I have given to you a great grace to be My shepherd in the Shepherds of Christ Movement.

  

August 20, 1997

Jesus Appeared on the Crucifix in Gold

R. Crying at the crucifix at St. Gertrude’s Church. He was so beautiful, adorned in gold and light on the crucifix.

Heard: “This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.” This was in late 1993.

When He appeared, hanging on the cross, His mouth was moving - December 5, 1996.

His head went from on his shoulder to straight forward.

(diagram: two crosses).

Adorned in light and gold - My heart was as filled as when He was transfigured before me. He was covered with light. The words, “listen to Him” ring in my ear.

Jesus appeared to me two times on the crucifix, at Holy Cross-Immaculata Church.

On December 5, 1996 I went to Immaculata to see Mary.

Mary appeared on the 5th of the month from July 5, 1994 - October 5, 1996. I did not go to Holy Cross-Immaculata in November. On December 5, 1996, I went there expecting to see Mary and instead Jesus appeared.