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April 30, 2006
Genesis Chapter 3
Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild
animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, 'Did God really
say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?' The woman
answered the snake, 'We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden.
But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, "You
must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death." ' Then the snake
said to the woman, 'No! You will not die! God knows in fact that the day
you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing
good from evil.' The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and
pleasing to the eye, and that it was enticing for the wisdom that it
could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some
to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of
them were opened and they realised that they were naked. So they sewed
fig-leaves together to make themselves loin-cloths.
The man and his wife heard the sound of Yahweh God
walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from Yahweh
God among the trees of the garden. But Yahweh God called to the man.
'Where are you?' he asked. 'I heard the sound of you in the garden,' he
replied. 'I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.' 'Who told you
that you were naked?' he asked. 'Have you been eating from the tree I
forbade you to eat?' The man replied, 'It was the woman you put with me;
she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.' Then Yahweh God
said to the woman, 'Why did you do that?' The woman replied, 'The snake
tempted me and I ate.'
Then Yahweh God said to the snake, 'Because you have
done this,
Accursed be you
of all animals wild and tame!
On your belly you will go
and on dust you will feed
as long as you live.
I shall put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
it will bruise your head
and you will strike its heel.'
To the woman he said:
I shall give you intense pain
in childbearing,
you will give birth to your children
in pain.
Your yearning will be for your husband,
and he will dominate you.
To the man he said, 'Because you listened to the voice
of your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat,
Accursed be the soil because of you!
Painfully will you get your food from it
as long as you live.
It will yield you brambles and thistles,
as you eat the produce of the land.
By the sweat of your face
will you earn you food,
until you return to the ground,
as you were taken from it.
For dust you are
and to dust you shall return.
The man named his wife 'Eve' because she was the
mother of all those who live. Yahweh God made tunics of skins for the
man and his wife and clothed them. Then Yahweh God said, 'Now that the
man has become like one of us in knowing good from evil, he must not be
allowed to reach out his hand and pick from the tree of life too, and
eat and live for ever!' So Yahweh God expelled him from the garden of
Eden, to till the soil from which he had been taken. He banished the
man, and in front of the garden of Eden he posted the great winged
creatures and the fiery flashing sword, to guard the way to the tree of
life.
April 30, 2006 message continues
Messenger:
We have weaknesses toward sin because of
original sin.
God is all perfect.
God gives us the sacrament of baptism
but we still have weaknesses toward sin.
The devil tries to use our weaknesses to
get in a door.
Jesus speaks:
What stops My work from being done
is: disobedience
people being pressed on by the devil
and giving in.
If a person gives into the devil and fails
to recognize old patterned behaviors
that are sinful, against God's will — the
devil advances in subtle ways at the
pace he can to try to steel more and more of
the person's commitment to be a
soldier in God's army.
Making a commitment and saying one is
sorry in confession means that they are
suppose to improve, avoid the near
occasions of sin.
People in dysfunctional relationships
try to force others, sometimes, to engage
in co-dependent behavior. One can
readily see a husband who is an
alcoholic or a drug addicted son
that tries to make their wife, mother, respectively,
responsible for their bad problem, while
they continue drinking/using. The wife
or mother's life is centered on the unpredictable
behavior of the alcoholic — i.e. in an
advanced stage she thinks "he needs me"
"he could fall down the steps drunk",
"he could have an accident" — all the
children (when there is a husband/wife
problem) also become sick — she may
keep them quiet not to disturb dad —
All do a dysfunctional dance —
Co-dependent behavior can occur
in any relationships where one is
dysfunctional dependent on the other
i.e. mother/son, mother/daughter, where
daughter and sons are adults and able
people or where parents are able people
and they are made co-dependent needlessly.
Sometimes people unrelated engage in
co-dependent behaviors or for example
mother/son, daughter/father, that is
dysfunctional and they are not even related.
Such relationships can disempower people
where without the relationship they
would be capable and empowered
in their lives.
But what about a person who
has lived alone, that uses passive/
aggressive behavior on mother or
anyone who has to work with them
and they try to get away with it —
Trying to force the other into acting out
their ways by provoking the other over
and over again — because they are
dysfunctional handling their own
deep-seated pain.
It is sad to watch people's lives
deteriorate when you are so richly
blessed and the sick co-dependent
gets sicker and the dance in the
system is like one dancing to a
disharmonious symphony.
My symphony plays the harmony
of life, that is how you were
meant to live by the Father —
But since Adam and Eve — people teach
and teach erratic ways of relating many times
and I showed you the way —
Obedience to God's will
Anything else brings disharmony and
sadness for all.
A lady wore one shoe to Church and
her pastor said — "Where is your other
shoe" she said, "My Mother always
wore one shoe so I do too"
If you could see how you wear
one shoe before My eyes and do not
know it and when those who
wanted intimacy with you shouted
"you have on one shoe"
you became arrogant and went to
live alone — rather than recognize
that your nature is wounded and
you act incorrectly. People
sin, they have the weakness from
original sin and they disobey
God's laws and sin.
But your world today says
"Oh you are perfect — don't
let anyone know otherwise"
And so you are stuck like a
woman sticking her head under the
front of an open car and closing
the hood. But she should not
act like anything is wrong with
her as her bottom hangs out and
she muffles a little sigh.
You are sinners. You have
fallen, many of you, into satan's
traps and when he attacks those
in religious life they may say —
"oh I am perfect, obedience is
taboo" and not even recognized
satan's attacks like the woman
hanging out from under the hood
of the car.
Satan comes — opens the hood
— tells
you to look and the car is yours —
you look and he lures you so much
under the hood you close the
hood on yourselves and then
deny you were attacked.
You blame others when your
hands are in the cookie jar and
you lie to yourselves, your
superior, whoever... because to
many of you, your god has become
proving to the world YOU ARE
SINLESS.
You don't fool Me and you hurt
yourselves and all others when you
sin. It is because of pride and
lies to yourselves and others you
stay stuck and block My work,
A lady had a horn blowing in
her ear and she learned to put
up with it.
My commandments shout out
as horns blowing in your ears and
you disobey them and you silence
your consciences.
Satan tells you lies about
yourself and you listen and give in.
Satan works on people's emotions —
then they act like someone with
googley eyes, sort of hypnotized, —
not even
realizing the Plan of salvation is at
hand.
If one continues to sin habitually —
they go deeper and deeper into darkness.
Excerpt from January 16, 2006
Here is a story a priest told —
A frog will jump in a boiling
pan of water and jump right
out because of the heat.
But frogs love warm water
and he will jump in and stay
and if the warm water is turned
up gradually to boiling — the
frog will not notice it —
stay in the water and he will
die.
April 30, 2006 message continues
Jesus speaks:
Freedom is found in the truth.
When one has sinned and lies
about it they can be on
a road to greater and
worse sins — it opens a
door to the distorted truth
they have now adapted —
to prove they are never wrong.
1 John 1: 8-10 - 2: 1-2
If we say, ‘We have no sin,’
we are deceiving ourselves,
and truth has no place in us;
if we acknowledge our sins,
he is trustworthy and upright,
so that he will forgive our sins
and will cleanse us from all evil.
If we say, ‘We have never sinned,’
we make him a liar,
and his word has no place in us.
My children, I am writing this
to prevent you from sinning;
but if anyone does sin,
we have an advocate with the Father,
Jesus Christ, the upright.
He is the sacrifice to expiate our sins,
and not only ours,
but also those of the whole world.
April 30, 2006 message continues
Jesus speaks:
A person that gives into satan's
attacks and blocks important
duties and then lies and tries to
prove others wrong for their behavior
has now started an avalanche
over their own head and the devil
has a big crack to keep widening
like a wedge, would do in the
crack. The devil whittles and whittles
widening the crack a little at a
time and the truth to the person
becomes more and more tainted as they
give in more and more to satan,
manipulating their sins through
pride and jealousy, lies,
7 Capital Sins
Pride, Greed, Envy, Wrath,
Lust, Gluttony, Sloth
Messenger: God is
perfect.
The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are one.
Sin hurts everybody — the sinner
and the innocent, the human
race, the body of Christ.
Our mission in the Shepherds of Christ is to help
bring the world into one mind
and one heart walking in the truth —
Jesus speaks: Keeping secrets from
those above
you is wrong.
The devil works in secrets —
A child may steal money for
candy for their friends, but
how is it done.
It is done secretly.
Stealing is wrong.
Lying is wrong.
Looking lustfully on another is wrong.
Jealousy blocking God's will is
wrong.
Anger hurting others unrelented
is wrong.
Ways of acting that are
wrong are passed on from
generations to generations —
Exodus 34: 6-7
Then Yahweh passed before him and called
out, ‘Yahweh, Yahweh, God of tenderness and compassion, slow to anger,
rich in faithful love and constancy, maintaining his faithful love to
thousands, forgiving fault, crime and sin, yet letting nothing go
unchecked, and punishing the parent’s fault in the children and in the
grandchildren to the third and fourth generation!’
Excerpt from NOW IS THE TIME by Fr.
Edward J. Carter, S.J.
47. The Human Condition
The Word became flesh
and made his dwelling among us . . .
(Jn 1:14)
Sometimes we are
tempted to think that the best way to be a good Christian would be to
withdraw as much as possible from earthly concerns. We think how
peaceful it would be to be alone with God in our own kind of hermitage,
as it were, and let the world with all its worries, anxieties, and
temptations pass us by. In moments of clearer thinking, however, we
realize this is a dreamy kind of thinking, unrealistic thinking,
thinking which does not correspond to the plan of Christic redemption.
Jesus, as man,
redeemed us within the framework of the human condition. Jesus' human
enfleshment placed him within the world of men, and he accepted the full
implications of his being human. He did not deny his humanity; he rather
lived it to the full. He lived a full human life not only when it was
pleasant to do so; he also lived human existence perfectly when this
meant being rejected, laughed at, spat upon, crowned with thorns,
scourged, nailed to a cross in excruciating agony.
All his human acts
helped redeem us. His teaching, his relationships with Mary and Joseph
and others, his taking meals with friends, his gathering the little
children in warm embrace, his healing of the sick, his thrilling to
nature's beauty, the sufferings of his passion—these and all the rest
of his human acts redeemed us.
As Jesus objectively
redeemed us within the framework of the human condition, so in like
manner we subjectively participate in redemption. We receive the life
Jesus came to give, and mature in this life, by living the human
according to God's will. We are saved, not by fleeing the human, but by
embracing it according to God's plan. Whether a person is a layman
involved most intensely with the secular city, or a Trappist monk within
monastery walls, that person is Christian by living the human in a
graced manner, or he is not Christian at all.
As did Jesus before
us, we also have to accept the bitter with the sweet. We cannot accept
the human condition only at those times when life rewards us with
intense joy, success, enthusiasm, and the beauty and tenderness of deep
love. When we experience failure or misunderstanding, when we taste the
bitterness of human existence, when life seems all too much for us, when
anguish and intense suffering make even one day seem endless, at these
times also we have to affirm our being human. In this way we are saved;
in this way we help others to be saved; in this way we follow Jesus, who
always accepted his state of being human in the fullest possible manner.
1 Corinthians 15: 20-28
In fact, however, Christ has been raised from
the dead, as the first–fruits of all who have fallen asleep. As it
was by one man that death came, so through one man has come the
resurrection of the dead. Just as all die in Adam, so in Christ all
will be brought to life; but all of them in their proper order:
Christ the first–fruits, and next, at his coming, those who belong
to him. After that will come the end, when he will hand over the
kingdom to God the Father, having abolished every principality,
every ruling force and power. For he is to be king until he has
made his enemies his footstool, and the last of the enemies to
be done away with is death, for he has put all things under his
feet. But when it is said everything is subjected, this
obviously cannot include the One who subjected everything to him.
When everything has been subjected to him, then the Son himself will
be subjected to the One who has subjected everything to him, so that
God may be all in all.
1 John 4: 1
My dear friends,
not every spirit is to be trusted,
but test the spirits
to see whether they are from God,
for many false prophets
are at large in the world.
April 30, 2006 message continues
Messenger:
St. Ignatius has his discernment
of spirits.
(1) We can get thoughts from our
own mind.
(2) The devil can tell us things
—
some people even hear voices.
(3) The Holy Spirit can inspire
us.
Discernment of Spirits is crucial.
Many act like a leaf in the
wind — if they start
to feel sad — they act
out and begin punishing
someone else —
A person was pressed on so much
by the devil they heard
voices from the devil,
said they were from God —
then charged others responsible
for their voices and
threatened to burn down their
building and do something
to the people threatening
their lives — if the voices
in their head didn't
stop.
They had slipped out of real,
reality to a place so
bizarre they were acting
out because of the voices in their
head.
You think this is sick.
Those assassinating a figure
in office - think
this way — they think
they are a hero many
times. I realized this
from a play I watched
on assassins.
If we do not discern the spirits —
if we think we are right —
if we innocently hurt others when
we feel bad — it
is wrong.
The virtue of justice bids
us to give to others what is
their do.
Romans 1: 18-32
The retribution of
God from heaven is being revealed against the ungodliness and
injustice of human beings who in their injustice hold back the
truth. For what can be known about God is perfectly plain to them,
since God has made it plain to them: ever since the creation of the
world, the invisible existence of God and his everlasting power have
been clearly seen by the mind’s understanding of created things. And
so these people have no excuse: they knew God and yet they did not honour him as God or give thanks to
him, but their arguments became futile and their uncomprehending
minds were darkened. While
they claimed to be wise, in fact they were growing so stupid
that
they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an imitation,
for the image of a mortal human being, or of birds, or animals,
or crawling things.
That
is why God abandoned them in their inmost cravings to filthy
practices of dishonouring their own bodies— because
they exchanged God’s truth for a lie and have worshipped and served
the creature instead of the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
That
is why God abandoned them to degrading passions: why
their women have exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural
practices; and the men, in a similar fashion, too, giving up normal
relations with women, are consumed with passion for each other, men
doing shameful things with men and receiving in themselves due
reward for their perversion.
In
other words, since they would not consent to acknowledge God, God
abandoned them to their unacceptable thoughts and
indecent behaviour. And
so now they are steeped in all sorts of injustice, rottenness,
greed and malice; full of envy, murder, wrangling, treachery and
spite, libellers,
slanderers, enemies of God, rude, arrogant and boastful,
enterprising in evil, rebellious to parents, without
brains, honour, love or pity. They
are well aware of God’s ordinance: that those who behave like
this deserve to die—yet they not only do it, but even applaud
others who do the same.
April 30, 2006 message continues
Messenger:
Into such a depraved condition
of mankind Christ entered, with
a full and generous heart, to
lead men from the depths of his
sinfulness to the vibrant riches
of a new life in Himself.
This Christ had become through
His enfleshment the focal point
of all history. All the authentic
hopes and dreams of all ages, now
overshadowed so deeply by the
ugliness of sin, came converging
upon this Christ. He would
gather them up in Himself, give
them a new luster and brilliance
and dynamism, and would
lead the renewed human race
back to the Father in the Spirit.
Christ came, then, for a
double purpose, or rather for a
single purpose with two facets.
He was radically to release us
from the dominion of sin and to
elevate us to a new level of
existence.
We are to love each other.
Jesus speaks:
To be in this Movement and
not be loving, loving Me and
each other is to not work for
the reason it exists.
Satan comes in lethargy,
selfishness — this self-focus
does not improve — if all one
thinks of is themselves, they will
not grow if they continue to
live a certain way.
Satan wants to take you
down and down and down —
Live to become more pure —
not more dark
Mary's call to conversion is for
world peace. Ignoring Our Lady
of Clearwater and her wishes as
Our Lady of Fatima in the
Americas is not going to help us.
We must overcome our
sinful ways with loving —
We must seek for holiness.
Living the Consecration to the
Hearts of Jesus and Mary is
a way we live more deeply
our commitment in baptism.
Jesus speaks:
Mary's face is gentle —
Mary's love is kind —
Mary served as the perfect
handmaid of the Lord.
Messenger:
Jesus' Heart is a symbol
of His love.
Mary's Heart is a symbol
of Her love.
The Age of the Two Hearts is
to be an age in which
men are deeply united
in love, living in oneness
in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
John 3: 16
For this is how God loved the world:
he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him
may not perish
but may have eternal life.
April 30, 2006 message continues
Messenger:
To be like Christ is to love.
To be like Christ is to serve.
Jesus speaks:
I shed tears of blood for those
who profess to be holy, but
are cold, selfish and very
unloving.
My messages I deliver for all
the souls of the earth.
Men blocked My Blue Books
for 12 and 11 years. They
were focused on themselves,
I tell you, I am God —
I want you to help Me and
circulate My letters of love to
the hurting souls.
Make light of My site
in Florida and My face
is there — if you see cars
and miss My face, you are
like the woman with one
shoe. She is so blind she
doesn't know it.
The devil attacks commitment,
He tells you to not be faithful
to your vocation and you listen —
The devil says "You deserve to do nothing
—
it won't matter."
Mary's Message
from the Rosary of August 27, 1996
Mary speaks: I stood beneath
the cross of my Son, and my Heart was in such pain for I saw Him before
my eyes. I saw Him covered with blood. I saw Him die. My Heart, my
children, my Heart to watch my Son, but my Heart, my Heart, how I
suffered for my little children of the world that give in to this world
and give up the love of my Son. O my little children of light, I give
you this message. Carry this light into the darkness for your Mother
Mary, for I stood beneath the cross and I cried. I cried for the little
ones. I cried for the young ones, the ones that do not care and will
lose their souls. How do I make you see for you will not listen to me?
What can I do? I come. I appear. I beg. I plead. I give you these gifts
from my Son, and you reject me. I do not deliver messages very often
anymore for I have been ignored. The message is the same. You do not
read the messages I have given to you. Please help me. Help the little
children. I appear. I appear. I appear, and I am ignored. I stood
beneath the cross, and I cried. I cried, and my Heart was in such
anguish for my little children, for I am searching for them this day as
I searched for the Child Jesus. Please, please help me. I cannot hold
back the hand of my Son any longer. I am Mary, your Mother. I ask you to
help my children. You are my children of light.
end of Mary's Message,
August 27, 1996
April 30, 2006 message continues
Jesus speaks:
I cry bloody tears to you.
Souls are at stake.
Don't give into pride.
You are here to be growing
in your holiness.
Being childish at an old age —
ignoring what God wants
you to do is wasting your
precious time here.
Promises of Our Lord to those
devoted to His Sacred Heart:
- I will give them all the graces necessary in
their state of life.
- I will establish peace in their homes.
- I will comfort them in all their afflictions.
- I will be their refuge during life and above
all in death.
- I will bestow a large blessing on all their
undertakings.
- Sinners shall find in My Heart the source and
the infinite ocean of mercy.
- Tepid souls shall grow fervent.
- Fervent souls shall quickly mount to high
perfection.
- I will bless every place where a picture of
My Heart shall be set up and honored.
- I will give to priests the gift of touching
the most hardened hearts.
- Those who promote this devotion shall have
their names written in My Heart, never to be blotted out.
- I promise you in the excessive mercy of My
Heart that My all-powerful love will grant to all those who
communicate on the first Friday in nine consecutive months the
grace of final penitence; they shall not die in My disgrace nor
without receiving their sacraments; My divine Heart shall be
their safe refuge in this last moment.
April 30, 2006 message continues
Jesus speaks:
How can you have My Sacred Heart
all over and before you
constantly and give into
unloving ways — and then
tell yourself you are
right when you gave into
satan's attacks —
Messenger: I
wish to discuss holiness in terms of consecration,
which we discussed in Part II of this book.
Let's recall some of the ideas discussed there.
Only God can make us holy, and, at Baptism,
He initiates us into the life of holiness. He
objectively consecrates us-makes us holy-by
giving us a participation in His own holiness.
This participation in God's holiness is our life
of sanctifying grace. In a response of love, we
are called to say "yes" to this objective consecration.
This "yes" is our act of subjective consecration.
This "yes" is our allowing Christ to take us to the
Father, in the Holy Spirit, with Mary, our Mother,
at our side.
God consecrates us in Baptism through the mediation
of Christ. Our baptismal consecration is actually a
share in Christ's own consecration.
Our Lady of Medjugorje's call to a life of holiness is a
call to consecration to the Heart of Jesus and to her
own Immaculate Heart. It is a carryover of her requests
at Fatima. Growth in the life of holiness is growth in
our life of consecration, and the messages of Mary at
Medjugorje teach us what is involved in this life of
holiness. They teach us how to grow in our life of
consecration. They teach us how to say "yes" each
day of our lives to what the Hearts of Jesus and Mary
ask of us.
In Baptism, we are initially consecrated to the Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit. So our life of consecration to the Heart
of Christ is also a Trinitarian Consecration.
Messenger:
Mary, the Mother of Christ, knows
that we cannot go to the Father
without Jesus. Jesus Himself told
us as much.
John 14: 6-7
Jesus said:
I am the Way; I am Truth and Life.
No one can come to the Father
except through me.
If you know me,
you will know my Father too.
From this moment you know him
and have seen him.
April 30, 2006 message continues
Messenger:
Mary loves Jesus —
Mary appeared in Clearwater to
lead us to Jesus.
Mary, as always, cooperates
with the Holy Spirit in our ever
greater assimilation to Jesus.
This assimilation, this transformation
stems from Mary's Immaculate
Heart. As Jesus was born of Mary
by the power of the Holy Spirit, so we are
continually being born of Mary
in the Holy Spirit, into a greater likeness
of Christ.
Excerpt from Tell My People
The Holy Spirit
Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people to pray daily to the
Holy Spirit. They are to pray for an increase in His gifts. My people
must realize that the Holy Spirit comes to transform them. The Spirit
desires to transform you more and more according to My image. Those who
are docile to His touch become increasingly shaped in My likeness. He
performs this marvel within Mary's Immaculate Heart. The more one dwells
in My Mother's Heart, the more active are the workings of the Spirit.
The Spirit leads Mary to place you within My own Heart. In both Our
Hearts, then, your transformation continues. The more you are formed
after My own Heart, the more I lead you to the bosom of My Father. Tell
My people all this. Tell them to pray daily for a greater appreciation
of these wondrous gifts. I am Lord and Master. All who come to My Heart
will be on fire to receive the gifts of the Spirit in ever greater
measure! I love and bless My people!"
Reflection: The Holy Spirit is given to us to fashion us ever
more according to the likeness of Jesus. And the more we are like Jesus,
the more Jesus leads us to the Father. Do we, each day, pray to the Holy
Spirit to be more open to His transforming influence? Do we strive each
day to grow in union with Mary? The greater our union with our Mother,
the spouse of the Holy Spirit, the greater is the transforming action of
the Holy Spirit within us.
end of excerpt from Tell My People
April 30, 2006 message continues
Messenger:
Mary knows very well that if
we are to grow in the likeness
of Christ, we must abandon
ourselves to the Holy Spirit.
Mary herself has a most perfect
relationship with the Persons of the
Trinity. She is daughter of the
Father, Mother of the Son, and
Spouse of the Holy Spirit. As
our spiritual Mother, she longs
for us to grow in our own
relationships with the Divine
Persons. We should always pray
for the grace to fulfill her maternal
wish. She has repeated it to us
so many times — now, again,
in these most urgent times.
In Mary's and Jesus' school for
holiness they tell us we
must live according to the
Father's will —
Living in Their Hearts will
help us live according to
the Father's will —
What does it mean to display
Jesus and Mary's Heart and be unloving.
What does it mean to read the commandments
daily and disobey them ourselves?
What does it mean to tell others about
God's will and selfishly give into
isolation when we should
be working with others
on a job —
What does it mean to provoke others
—
so they leave, so we can be isolated?
A man wanted to be alone and
do what he wanted so he provoked
all around him to leave — the others who
needed to stay and do God's work —
but he became so ugly they
had to leave to protect
themselves.
How often does satan
work on certain individuals
who like to be alone, provoke
fights, arguments to do what
they want and be alone when
they have a job to do.
If they are alone, they can
do what they want.
If they are with others
they pick a fight to be alone.
The Persons of the Trinity
are One.
Excerpt from Response to God's Love,
by Father Edward Carter, S.J.
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The Mystery of Christ and
Christian Existence |
...In
reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate mystery.
Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden from man in
his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us briefly look
at this inner life of God.
The Father, in a perfect act of self-expression, in a perfect act
of knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the immanent
expression of God's fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise,
from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in
a perfect act of loving.
At the destined moment in human history, God's self-expression, the
Word, immersed himself into man's world. God's inner self-expression now
had also become God's outer self-expression. Consequently, the mystery
of God becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us about
himself, about his inner life, about his plan of creation and
redemption. He tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell
within us in the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us
their own life through grace. All this he has accomplished and does
accomplish through Christ. St. Paul tells us: "I became a minister of
this Church through the commission God gave me to preach among you his
word in its fullness, that mystery hidden from ages and generations past
but now revealed to his holy ones. God has willed to make known to them
the glory beyond price which this mystery brings to the Gentiles—the
mystery of Christ in you, your hope of glory. This is the Christ we
proclaim while we admonish all men and teach them in the full measure of
wisdom, hoping to make every man complete in Christ" (Col 1:25-28).
April 30, 2006 message continues
Messenger:
Fr. Carter says —
God intends us to walk hand-
in-hand.
Mary's own life is summed up in
her loving conformity to God's will.
The "Fiat" she uttered at the Annunciation
sums up her attitude before this
momentous occasion during
it and forever after it.
Luke 1: 38
Mary said, ‘You see before you the Lord’s servant, let
it happen to me as you have said.’
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Messenger:
Mary was the first and perfect
disciple of Jesus. Mary always
perfectly accomplished the Father's
will.
Handmaids of the Good Shepherd
Kathleen W.
I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you in love! I write this
for the honor and glory of God and in thanksgiving to Jesus for calling
me to this Movement.
Jesus says in St. John's Gospel, "You did not choose me, no, I chose
you…" Jn 15:16.
What a calling! To be chosen to be a Handmaid of the Good Shepherd!
His special spouse! The spouse of THE KING & CREATOR of the Universe!
WOW! And a Movement personally directed by Jesus! Thank you, Jesus!
Words cannot express all I would like to say. Since 1st grade I
wanted to be a nun. I saw the nuns at my school and I wanted to be like
them. Unfortunately growing up... all the peer pressure in school and
the struggles of young adulthood took away any hope of being a nun. I
followed the ways of the world and left Jesus out of my life.
During my senior year of nursing, the seed of pursuing a religious
vocation sprang up again in my heart. I started attending daily Mass as
often as I could, and Mary our Mother was bringing me closer to Jesus.
My 1st choice was Mother Teresa's Order, however, that didn't happen for
me.
After graduation from nursing school I went to a Bible Institute
Retreat at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. While there, I
attended a Baptism of the Spirit Seminar and felt a strong presence of
the Holy Spirit.
That fall, in 1996, I went back to Ohio for another retreat, and
while I was in the chapel one evening, I picked up God's Blue Book II
and read a message on Communion from Jesus. I almost
fell out of my pew! The message touched me deep in my heart. Thankfully,
I was able to take the book home. the messages were awesome! I never
knew of having such an intimate relationship with Jesus!
I started spending an hour everyday after Mass. I joined the
Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart and later started a Shepherds of
Christ Prayer Chapter. I got the other Blue Books, the rosary
book and rosary tapes. I felt so committed to praying the prayers and
the rosary mediations were so powerful! I thank Jesus and Mary for all
these revelations!
I heard about the handmaids in 1998, while ordering through the
Shepherds of Christ. I was really interested in them. I thought maybe
this is where God is calling me. I kept praying to do His will.
Jesus, in His time, made it all work out. When we give our lives to
Jesus, He can do more than we could ever ask for or imagine! Jesus loves
us!
I feel so blessed and privileged to be in the formation of being a
handmaid! Thank you, my Father, for this Movement and all the beautiful
people in it! Thank you, Holy Spirit, for your tremendous work in my
soul! Thank you, Jesus, for choosing me for this special calling. And
like Mary, my life is a continuous FIAT. "My soul proclaims the
greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my Savior." and
"Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according
to your word."
Rosie R.
How has Shepherds of Christ changed my life?
The first time I opened God's Blue Book, I knew that Jesus was
speaking to me! The message was just what I needed that day!
I had not attended daily Mass since Catholic High School,
approximately 30 years previous. MY PRAYER LIFE had been practically
non-existent -- attending Sunday Mass and calling on God during trials.
In fact, the threat of my husband dying of cancer took me back to
praying the rosary and praying novenas to the Blessed Mother. After he
died I was at a loss, for I considered him my "rock". For the first time
ever in my life, I began praying to do God's will. I had a career, but I
felt in my heart that I didn't want to do that for the rest of my
working life.
I was invited by a friend to make a Cursillo weekend and without
hesitation, said yes. Following the grace-filled weekend, I entered the
chapel for adoration and picked up the Blue Book, which I had ignored
for weeks. I immediately fell in love with Jesus and my life began to
change! With the help of Jesus through the Blue Book, along with daily
Mass and Holy Communion and spending time after Communion with Jesus and
time in prayer, I was able to work through my depression, which I had
even denied existed.
After giving out many Blue Books to relatives and friends, I received
an invitation to attend the first monthly Shepherds of Christ national
prayer meeting at Tom A's farm held on October 13, 1996, with Rita
leading a Live Rosary. I felt drawn to every meeting after that, and
soon found myself in the core group at Morrow, Ohio, attending weekly
prayer meetings with Live Rosaries. Through the use of the Blue Books,
mostly in front of the tabernacle, weekly prayer meetings, and rosaries
at Morrow, I have grown closer to Jesus than I ever thought possible.
I thank Jesus every day for His many graces and the deep love that He
gives me to draw me closer and closer to Him. I also thank my spiritual
Mother, Mary, with all my heart for her help when I turned to her in
desperation and for the help she's given me throughout my life.
As an apostle working in Florida at Our Lady's Image Site, I have a
great opportunity to spread the light and love of Christ to all I
meet!!!
Mary G.
How has being a member of Shepherds of
Christ has changed my life?
When I was a baby, we lived next door to a convent
and I had 12 years of Catholic education. I married and lived
Cincinnati eventually. After my civil divorce, my three younger
children and I moved back to Price Hill in Cincinnati where I grew
up. This time brought me the Catholic Charismatic experience.
Dad died in '86, and I moved away to a small town.
Though I tried, I thought no Catholic church or prayer group met my
needs so I attended Protestant prayer meetings and services. I found
ministers and prayer groups that deeply love the Lord Jesus, and I
would still be in these circles except that I went back to
Cincinnati to visit. I hadn't told my old friends that I was no
longer a practicing Catholic so I joined them when they attended
charismatic functions. At one of these I was given
Blue Book I.
Actually, someone tried to give it to me and I
wouldn't take it saying, I had too much to read , so it was given to
the friend I was staying with. When we got home and she was out of
the room, I opened the book so I could congratulate myself for not
accepting it.
That's Jesus! Jesus is speaking in this book! I
read almost the whole book that night, then I ate humble pie and
phoned the lady who had pressed me to accept it. I received it in a
few days.
Back home I read and reread it. Jesus was speaking
loud and clear and I went to the nearest church and made a
confession and resumed my long neglected practice of daily Mass. I
also began to go to the Shepherds of Christ chapter meetings in
Morrow, Ohio, where I heard the call for volunteers to come to the
Virgin Mary Site in Clearwater, Florida.
How well I understand God's words, "Your thoughts
are not My thoughts!".
Changing my thoughts and my ways comes more slowly
than changing my address, which is now Clearwater, Florida.
Though retirement isn't at all what I thought it
would be, I wouldn't trade places with anyone at all.
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Messenger:
Mary was Jesus' closest follower.
Mary perfectly lived Jesus'
message ——
Window of the Two Hearts
April 30, 2006 message continues
Messenger:
Mary perfectly lived Jesus'
message — which is summed
up in loving conformity to
God's will.
Jesus Himself taught us this lesson
by both word and example.
Toward the end of the great
Sermon on the Mount in Matthew's
Gospel Christ sums up the
teaching of the sermon in this way:
Matthew 7:21
‘It is
not anyone who says to me, "Lord, Lord," who will enter the kingdom
of Heaven, but the person who does the will of my Father in heaven.’
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Messenger:
Christ perfectly lived this lesson
Himself.
John 8: 28-29
So Jesus said:
When you have lifted up the Son of man,
then you will know that I am He
and that I do nothing of my own accord.
What I say
is what the Father has taught me;
he who sent me is with me,
and has not left me to myself,
for I always do what pleases him.
Messenger:
Yes, Jesus always did what pleased
His Father. In love, He always
did the Father's will. At that
most special moment of His
life, as He was about to offer
His life in sacrifice upon the
Cross for the salvation of the world,
He again showed us that His conformity
in love to His Father's will
was the summary principle of
His existence.
As He knelt in the garden
Luke 22: 42-43
'Father,' he said, 'if you are
willing, take this cup away from me. Nevertheless, let your will be
done, not mine.' Then an angel appeared to him, coming from heaven
to give him strength.
Messenger:
ALL the great spiritual guides,
down through the ages, true to
their Mother's teaching, have taught
that growth in the spiritual life —
growth in holiness — is always
measured by growth in loving
conformity to God's will!!
The Two Hearts and Sanctity
Jesus: "My beloved priest companion, I and My Mother have
given you a consuming desire to spread devotion to Our Hearts. Tell My
people about the great riches contained in My Sacred Heart and Mary's
Immaculate Heart! Tell My people that they live in the age of the Two
Hearts. What I and My Mother said at Fatima has been gradually
unfolding. The Fatima message is centered in devotion to Our Hearts. The
triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart, foretold at Fatima, is soon to take
place. This triumph will coincide with the era of peace for the world
which My Mother foretold at Fatima. This great new age of peace for the
Church and the world will be characterized by the triumph of the
Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart.
"Because this is the age of the Two Hearts, the quickest and surest
way to sanctity is through devotion to My Heart and Mary's Heart. Such
devotion reaches its highest point in consecration to Our Hearts. Within
Our Hearts My people will be clothed with great graces! Their love for
God and neighbor will deepen tremendously! They will be fired with a
holy and burning desire to love God and neighbor in all their daily
activities as guided by the Holy Spirit. Dwelling within Our Hearts, My
people will long to help bring back an alienated world to conform to My
Father's will.
"My friend, I and My Mother have allowed you to experience in an
extraordinary way the riches contained in Our Hearts. Tell My people
about these riches! Tell them that I and Mary long for them to come
within Our Hearts! I am Lord and Master. Please listen to My words. Come
to Our Hearts!"
Reflection: Jesus tells us that we live in the age of the Two
Hearts, and that within His Heart and Mary's Heart we receive graces to
raise us to great sanctity. What is sanctity? It is doing God's will out
of love, and God's will is summed up in love of God and love of
neighbor. In the above message Jesus refers to this love of God and
neighbor. In the Gospel, Jesus expressed it in this way:
But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the
Sadducees they got together and, to disconcert him, one of them put
a question, "Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?"
Jesus said, "You must love the Lord your God with all your heart,
with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and
the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your
neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law,
and the Prophets also" (Matthew 22:34-40).
Sanctity, then, is centered in love of God and neighbor. Thus, to
grow in sanctity is to grow in love of God and neighbor. Jesus tells us
in the above message that within His Heart and Mary's Heart we find the
graces to achieve great sanctity. Dwelling within the Two Hearts, we
receive the capacity to become tremendous lovers!
Excerpt from February 12, 2006
Mary speaks: My heart was pierced with a
sword, I watched the bitter passion
of my Son for the deceptive ways
of those tuned to dark nights
and sin.
My children, His flesh was
torn for your sins of pride and getting
even.
In the end it will be put to light —
all the evil deeds brought out like
trophies in the case, but they will
not shine, they will have a stench
and be covered with dark dried
blood.
My Son shed His blood for your
sins and He offers you forgiveness
through the priest — go to him —
tell him your sin of deception and
beg for the grace to live always in
the truth. Live a life of purity.
Go to confession, tell of your sins
of anger, lust, tell God you are
sorry —
If you lie to yourself — your lie gets
bigger and bigger and your house
(your interior self, Mary means)
gets filled with a bolder so big
and it grows like a snowball everyday
going down a hill.
Truth — is the way —
The more you walk in truth your
light will shine and you will
become more deeply united to
God.
How many teachers so focused on
themselves and their own pride have
led young people away from the
truth.
Eve wanted to be equal to God.
How many teachers of religious
matters who think first of their
own glory and the world is crying
like babies for the truth —
crying and crying —
Give the babies their medicine —
Give them these writings of God's Blue
Book and the other writing
on the rosary we give you.
I am Mary your Mother —
I am all pure.
Excerpts from April 26, 1995 Rosary
Mary Is Taken Up Into Heaven, Body and Soul
5. Mary: I wrap you, my beloved, dear, sweet children,
in my arms. I hold you close to my Heart. I protect you from this world
as any mother would protect her little child. You are my little child,
my dear one. I am forever with you.
Mary Is Crowned Queen of Heaven
2. Mary: My beloved ones, you will have a period of
struggle. Stay close to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
3. Mary: Our Hearts are a symbol of greatest love for
you.
4. Mary: In your wildest imagination, you cannot image
the deep and most tender love that my Son has for you. Pray to the
Spirit to open your heart so you may feel more and more the great love
that Jesus, my Son, has for you.
5. Mary: God wants you to be joined with Him forever and
ever in the courts of heaven. You must, every minute of your life, seek
after holiness. The devil goes about this earth prowling and aiming to
trip men in their paths. My dear, little ones, Jesus, my Son, loves you
with the deepest love. Focus on the love of Jesus.
6. Mary: I call to you! I call to you! I call to you! I
am Mary, the mother of God, and I am your mother. My dear little ones,
harken to my call, for you are my chosen ones.
7. Mary: You are commissioned through baptism to go out
into this world and spread the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Do not
hold back but let your hearts be forever open and the love of God will
flow from you and radiate from your very being.
8. Mary: I am Mary, your mother! My beloved children,
how I love you with the most maternal love. I love you! I love you! I am
waiting for you to come closer to my Heart.
Ezekiel 34: 11-16
“For the Lord Yahweh says this:
Look, I myself shall take care of my flock and look after it. As a
shepherd looks after his flock when he is with his scattered sheep,
so shall I look after my sheep. I shall rescue them from wherever
they have been scattered on the day of clouds and darkness. I shall
bring them back from the peoples where they are; I shall gather them
back from the countries and bring them back to their own land. I
shall pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines and in
all the inhabited parts of the country. I shall feed them in good
pasturage; the highest mountains of Israel will be their grazing
ground. There they will rest in good grazing grounds; they will
browse in rich pastures on the mountains of Israel. I myself shall
pasture my sheep, I myself shall give them rest–declares the Lord
Yahweh. I shall look for the lost one, bring back the stray, bandage
the injured and make the sick strong. I shall watch over the fat and
healthy. I shall be a true shepherd to them."
Daniel 7: 9-10, 13-14
While I was watching,
thrones were set in
place
and one most venerable took his seat.
His robe was white as snow,
the hair of his head as pure as wool.
His throne was a blaze of flames,
its wheels were a burning fire.
A stream of fire poured out,
issuing from his presence.
A thousand thousand waited on him,
ten thousand times ten thousand
stood before him.
The court was in session
and the books lay open.
I was gazing into the visions of the
night,
when I saw,
coming on the clouds of heaven,
as it were a son of man.
He came to the One most venerable
and was led into his presence.
On him was conferred rule,
honour and kingship,
and all peoples, nations and
languages
became his servants.
His rule is an everlasting rule
which will never pass away,
and his kingship will never
Psalm 97, 1-2, 5-6, 9
Yahweh is king! Let earth rejoice,
the many isles be glad!
Cloud, black cloud enfolds him,
saving justice and judgement the foundations of his throne.
The mountains melt like wax,
before the Lord of all the earth.
The heavens proclaim his saving justice,
all nations see his glory.
For you are Yahweh,
Most High over all the earth,
far transcending all gods.
Matthew 17: 1-9
Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his
brother John and led them up a high mountain by themselves. There in
their presence he was transfigured: his face shone like the sun and
his clothes became as dazzling as light. And suddenly Moses and
Elijah appeared to them; they were talking with him. Then Peter
spoke to Jesus. ‘Lord,’ he said, ‘it is wonderful for us to be here;
if you want me to, I will make three shelters here, one for you, one
for Moses and one for Elijah.’ He was still speaking when suddenly a
bright cloud covered them with shadow, and suddenly from the cloud
there came a voice which said, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved; he
enjoys my favour. Listen to him.’ When they heard this, the
disciples fell on their faces, overcome with fear. But Jesus came up
and touched them, saying, ‘Stand up, do not be afraid.’ And when
they raised their eyes they saw no one but Jesus.
As they came down from the mountain Jesus gave them this
order, ‘Tell no one about this vision until the Son of man has risen
from the dead.’
Sing: Eye Has Not Seen
Blue Book 6
February 28, 1995
Shepherds of Christ Meeting
Before tabernacle. Jesus and Mary
appeared.
I Love You! I Love You! I Love You!
This rosary was prayed before the
statue of Our Mother of Sorrows at the front of the Holy Rosary
Chapel at the Holy Spirit Center as part of the Shepherds of Christ
Meeting. Mary appeared. Jesus appeared and He told Rita that this
rosary was a gift to us from Him because He wants to be drawn
closely to us through His Passion and death because as we meditate
on this, we will know His immense love: He stated that this would be
the best rosary yet. This rosary was prayed on the Tuesday before
Ash Wednesday.
The Sorrowful Mysteries
The Agony in the Garden
1. R. See Jesus as He kneels in
the Garden.
2. R. Put yourself there and see
Him as if you were present. See Jesus, our Lord and Savior, as He waits,
His hour is about to come, to be handed over to those who will put Him
to death.
3. R. Jesus sees before Him all
the battering, the whipping, the scourging, the crowning of thorns. He
sees all the glaring! He knows all He will suffer in carrying His cross,
the nailing to the cross!
4. R. Jesus goes to the
apostles, to Peter who said how faithful he would always be. They are
asleep! He wants some comfort, but they were sleeping! He says to us
this day: Can you not watch one hour with Me? The Son of God waits for
you endlessly to come and to have time with Him. He waits for us in the
Tabernacle. He waits for us all through the day to take time in our busy
lives to be with Him. He says over and over again: Can you not watch one
hour with Me?
5. R. See Jesus as He kneels
there in the darkened night. His greatest agonies were not the agonies
that He would suffer in wounds to His body, but the agonies that He
suffered to His Heart. To love each soul so dearly and to be treated
with such indifference and hatred by so many souls! He saw each and
every soul from all time and how they would reject Him and not even
think of Him. How they would sin. How they would be cruel and hateful to
each other. He saw all the sins of the world!
6. R. Jesus saw the world in the
state that it is in this very day: all the people who hardened their
hearts, all those who turned from kindness entirely, those who think
only of themselves, those who are filled with hate and anger for their
brothers. He saw all the hearts of the people that live in this day
that have shunned Him, that have turned Him off, that have persecuted
others, that have murdered babies! He saw all these hearts.
7. R. Such immense agony to His
Most Sacred Heart for all the souls that would be condemned to eternal
damnation despite all the suffering that He was about to undergo because
of their willfulness. Out of greatest love, God gives us a free will. We
have a free will to accept Him or to reject Him.
8. R. The Father wants us, like
little children, entirely dependent upon Him; to live in His will; to
think of Him as our Most Loving Father; to have a relationship with Him
as we would have with our father. He is the Most Loving Father! He
created each one of us out of greatest love and He loves us so much and
wants us to love Him.
9. R. Jesus went to the apostles
and they continued to sleep. An angel of the Lord appeared to Him to
comfort Him.
10. R. How this delights the
Heart of Jesus when we take time, time away from our busy lives at home
and in front of the Tabernacle. How it delights His Heart when we spend
time with Him in the early morning hours. He wants to be so close to us
and He waits for us to come to Him and tell Him how much we love Him. He
truly loves us with a Heart that is overflowing with burning love.
Song between decades: A Song from
Jesus
Jesus is Scourged at the Pillar
1. R. They led Jesus away. They
pulled His hair! They hit Him! They tied Him, with such anger and hatred
to the pillar!
2. R. See Jesus, your Beloved
Savior! Minute by minute, second by second, He says in your heart ever
so silently: I love you, I love you, I love you! Do we realize that,
that Jesus is with us in our hearts all throughout our busy days? He is
calling out in a gentle voice for each one of us to hear in our hearts:
I love you, I love you, I love you!
3. R. See Jesus at the pillar!
See your Beloved! His bare back unblemished and with the blows that the
men gave to Him, instantly the flesh on His back torn and bloodied,
beaten raw! With their angry hearts, they pound on Jesus so hard with
sharp instruments.
4. R. See the unblemished back
of Jesus! Visualize it! Young, thirty-three years old! See it beaten raw
and you will know in the vision that you see now that He was scourged
because He loves each one of us so much.
5. R. Jesus did not call out or
holler back. He suffered in compliance to the Father's Will. He was born
a baby to show us that He came into this world totally helpless,
dependent upon His Mother as He wants us to depend on our Father, to go
to our Father, to Him and to the Holy Spirit for all our needs. For
second by second, minute by minute, Jesus is inside of our hearts
calling out that with that ever gentle voice: I love you, I love you, I
love you!
6. R. Do we plug up our ears and
close our eyes because we do not want to get too close to Jesus? This is
Jesus! His back was unmercifully scourged, dripping with blood from the
top of His head to His feet, standing in a puddle of His own blood and
He calls out to you: I love you!
7. R. Minute by minute, second
by second, He is there if we take time to listen. When others say nasty
things to us and the world is pressing down on us, hear this soft voice
inside of you saying ever so gently: I am here and I love you!
8. R. Jesus is Love! To unite
closely to Him, we must rid our hearts of anything that is not love. The
slightest flaws are offensive to Him. But He forgives us. He is so full
of mercy. He wants us to admit what we do, to say we are sorry, to go to
the priest and to not think about our sins for it is our job to spread
His light to this world. He wants us to strive for perfection, but He
knows we are not perfect. He wants us to have a contrite heart. He is so
gentle with us. He just wants us to say we are sorry and then move on
and spread His love and His light to our brothers.
9. R. The Holy Spirit is the
sanctifier! God wants us to be holy. As our Heavenly Father is perfect,
He wants us to strive for perfection. But we of ourselves cannot make
ourselves this holy. The more we pray to the Spirit, the more He
sanctifies us, the easier it becomes for us to be more and more as Jesus
wants us to be. The Father created us in His own image. Such dignity and
honor He gives to each one of us that He created us in the image and
likeness of God. The Spirit transforms us more and more into this image
of Jesus. Dear Holy Spirit, please descend upon us and transform our
hearts more and more into the image of Jesus so that we may be led
closer to our Most Loving Father Who loves us as the most dear Father.
10. R. And He walked away. His bloody footprints
covered the earth! He shed His blood for love of us. We are blind! We
are deaf! We do not see and we do not hear! And that still small voice
cries out from within: This is how I love you, that I truly was scourged
and gave My blood for you. I want to give you My life, more and more, in such abundance! My
life I give to you in the Eucharist and when you sit in front of the
Tabernacle. My abundant life ìs My grace I outpour to you!
Song between decades: A Song from
Jesus
Jesus is Crowned with a Crown of
Thorns
1. R. They pounded into Jesus'
head a sharp crown of piercing thorns and the blood ran down His face
into His eyes and into His ears.
2. R. It is through His Most
Precious Blood that we are saved!
3. R. See this vision of the
blood on Jesus' face in your mind. Try to visualize it as clearly as
possible. The bright red blood as it flows down His face and the thorns
that punctured His skull! It is in meditating and focusing on a vision
that is like this, and that of His scourged back, that you will realize
more and more the immensity of His great love. Jesus truly calls out to
us that this is how much He loved us and He asks us this Lent to draw
ever closer to His Passion, for our hearts will be joined ever closer to
His in meditating on His Passion and Death!
4. Jesus: They beat My body and
they crowned My head with thorns! They hollered insults at Me and they
spit on Me! Do you know how dearly I love each one of you? I will
outpour My grace to you if you ask this Lent. I ask you to meditate
fervently on My Passion. Look at the crucifix! When you feel you are
suffering, look at the crucifix for I truly say to you in your heart,
minute by minute, second by second: I love you, I love you, I love you.
5. Jesus: Stop when someone is
taunting you and hear My gentle voice deep in your heart for I call out
to you that this is the love that I have for you this day. Will you
listen to Me in your heart as I say this so gently many times throughout
the day as you get caught up in your world. Others come about, they
distract you, they make you feel hurtful in your hearts, and I am right
there with My Heart on fire for love of you saying so gently to you how
I love you. When someone hurts you, hear Me! For a heart that is filled
with My love cannot be angry. It is this that will mend the fence
between you and your brother when you always respond with love. But you
must know My deep love for you to be able to respond this way. So I say
to you this day, minute by minute, second by second, hear a soft voice
in your heart say to you: I love you, I love you, I love you!
6. Jesus: You are My chosen
ones. I have called you here to spread the love of My Sacred Heart
throughout this world. This is not a small task. You cannot spread love
unless you realize the immensity of the love that I have for you. Will
you open up your heart? Will you take the time to listen? Will you focus
on Me and this love that I have for you so that you can be the soldiers
that I am sending out into this world? The soldiers that are filled with
My love that will light this world in the dark corners through the love
that you know deep in your heart, My love, ever beating within your
breast.
7. R. They spit on Him. They
crowned Him with thorns! They hit Him! They poked at Him! And He loved!
He loved those who spit on Him!
8. Jesus: Let Me fill your every
moment with My love. Focus on what I am telling you here this night for
this is the key to send you out into the world with hearts that are
abundantly filled with the love of God. But you must hear Me as I speak
to you today and I say so gently all through the day: I love you, I love
you, I love you!
9. Jesus: The more you unite
with My Mother, whom I love, the more you pray to the Spirit, the more
you are transformed into My image. You are My soldiers that I send to go
into the world. You are to spread the love of My Most Sacred Heart and
the love of My Beloved Mother's Heart. I call out to you today. Will you
hear Me in your heart? This is the ammunition you need to go into this
world. A heart filled with My love is fearless. I send you as fearless
soldiers into a world that has forgotten God and I ask you to hear Me
as I talk to you in your heart, minute by minute, second by second. For
this will be the love that you give to this hurting world.
10. Song: Lord, let me walk that
lonesome road with You.
Song between decades: A Song from
Jesus
Jesus Carries His Cross up Calvary
1. R. Jesus carried His cross on
His shoulder and it hurt so badly it felt as if it would break!
2. R. Think of an ache that
could not be relieved in any way, that only got worse and worse. Now
think of all the aches and pains that Jesus had all over His body, the
wounds that were so deep and bleeding, and He carried the heavy cross on
His back as He bled. He could not even touch the wounds. The wounds bled
freely as He walked. From His Heart pounding, they bled and bled. And
they poked at Him because He did not go fast enough. He collapsed under
the cross. He did not give the cross up, He collapsed because it was so
heavy He could scarcely move the cross. They poked at Him and they
wanted Him to get up and move and move fast!
3. R. Jesus fell once because it
was so heavy. As He went on, His condition was weakened. He bled more
and the cross became heavier as He went. Can you, even a little, think
about the third time He fell under the cross? Three times He fell under
the cross. Three times Peter denied Him. Three times is used so much in
His life. He died when He was thirty-three. There are three Persons in
the Trinity. Three Persons in one God! We are loved so dearly by each
Person, Father, Son and Holy Spirit!
4. R. Jesus was locked in the
tomb for three days. He was lost in the temple for three days.
5. R. Jesus calls us to unity.
Look at the Trinity. There are three Persons in one God. There is such
love between the Persons of the Trinity. We receive the body of Christ,
we are many members, but we are one in Him.
6. R. Jesus loves us so much
that He gave His body and His blood and He gives His body to us this
day. When we receive Him in the Eucharist, I become one in Him, you
become one in Him. If I am one in Him and you are one in Him, we are so
closely united. We are united with Jesus.
7. Song: One Bread, One Body
8. R.
Jesus took upon His back the weight of the sins of the world. He died on
the cross. He gave His flesh and His blood for love of us so that we may
share in His Divine Life. This is how He loves us. We are all brothers
in Christ.
9. R. How can I say that I love
if I do not love my brother? How can I love God, Whom I do not see, if I
do not love my brother, whom I do see?
10. R. We are one body in
Christ; He is the head, we are the members.
Song between decades: A Song from
Jesus
Jesus is Crucified and He Dies on the
Cross
1. R. Jesus hung on the cross
against the darkened sky. Jesus hung for three hours. Three agonizing
hours! He gave His flesh and He gave His blood!
Song: Take and Eat
2. R. When the priest raises the
Host at the consecration of the Mass, I hear Jesus say: This is My body,
given up for you. This is My blood, given up for you. When you go to
Mass, hear in your heart Jesus as He says in a clear voice: This is My
body. This is My blood. The priest has the power to change the bread and
wine into the body and blood of Christ. If we realized even a minute
amount of what is transpiring: the Father is present and the Holy Spirit
is present; Jesus is saying "This is My Body"; the altar is covered with
angels and saints praising God, who is truly present; we are in the
presence of God and the priest has this power. We should kiss the hands
of the priest that consecrates the bread into Jesus' body. Hear Jesus'
voice in your heart the next time you go to Mass say: This is My body,
This is My blood. Then think that this is the same Jesus Christ that
hung on the cross. The same Jesus that hung on the cross. He is right
there out of greatest love for us!
3. Song: Take and Eat
4. R. Who are we that God loves
us so much that He gives us Himself in such union when we receive the
Eucharist and we become one in Him. One in God! Who are we that we can
be united to God! That I become one in God and you become one in God! We
become one with each other. Who are we that God loves us so much?
5. Song: I Love You Jesus
6. R. Jesus died on the cross so
that we could share in His life and He nourishes this life through His
very own Body and Blood!
7. R. Jesus waits in the
Tabernacle in this world and longs and thirsts for us to come and to be
with Him for He is no less present than the day He hung on the cross.
This is Jesus Christ, the Son of God! He is so close to us in this room,
for He is in the Chapel and He is in our midst!
8. R. God is here! Let us bend
low and realize how we are loved and favored that He cares for us!
9. R. Let us see ourselves as
the Father's creation. God the Father created us with greatest love in
His own image and likeness. Let us hear the gentle voice of Jesus as He
calls out in our hearts: I love you, I love you, I love you. Even though
we are not perfect, when we sin, we recognize our sin and tell Him we
are sorry and then go about our job to spread the light to this world
for He knows that we are not perfect although He wants us to strive to
be perfect. He is so gentle and loving to us. He forgives all our sins
and He gave the power to the priest to take away all our sins! Who are
we that God gives the priest the power to remove our sins through Him?
We are His chosen children! We are the children of God! We are His loved
ones for whom Jesus Christ came to this earth, shed His blood, gave His
body and remains with us this day in His Divinity and humanity, waiting
for us to come and to be with Him.
10. Jesus: My dear children, you
are on your spiritual journey. I want to walk hand in hand with you. As
you go through these days in Lent, draw yourselves ever closer to My
Passion and My Death. Realize more and more My immense love for you, for
I truly want you to go out into the world and spread this love to your
brothers. These are your brothers! You are one body!
Song after last decade: A Song
from Jesus
This rosary was prayed before the statue
of Our Mother of Sorrows at the front of the Holy Rosary Chapel at the
Holy Spirit Center as part of the Shepherds of Christ Meeting. Mary
appeared. Jesus appeared and He told Rita that this rosary was a gift to
us from Him because He wants to be drawn closely to us through His
Passion and death because as we meditate on this, we will know His
immense love: He stated that this would be the best rosary yet. This
rosary was prayed on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday.
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