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Here is the schedule for our web radio
April 7, 2003.

4:00 a.m. - Mass

4:37 a.m. - October 13, 1996 Live Rosary
               - Songs from Jesus

6:20 a.m. - 6:20 prayers led by Father Carter
                 Holy Spirit Novena
                 Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
                 Rosary

7:24 a.m. - Tell My People
                    read by Father Carter

8:55 a.m. - Newsletter 1999 Issue 4 
                    read by Father Carter

10:23 a.m. - Choose Life

11:25 a.m. - Grace by Father Carter
                    read by Father Mike Paraniuk

12:33 p.m. - August 20, 1996 Rosary
                    from the Mass Book

1:45 p.m. - Newsletter 2000 Issue 1
                    read by Father Carter

3:05 p.m. - Rosary of Light from November 15, 2002
                    led by Rita Ring

4:00 p.m. - Mass

4:37 p.m. - Blue Book Reading

                - Songs from Jesus

6:20 p.m. - 6:20 prayers led by Father Carter
                  Holy Spirit Novena
                  Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
                  Rosary

7:24 p.m. - Tell My People
                    read by Father Carter

8:55 p.m. - Love Songs and Messages
                    October 1, 1994

9:59 p.m. - Spirituality Handbook
                    read by Father Carter

11:33 p.m. - Mary's Message

12:30 a.m. - November 13, 1996 Live Rosary

1:50 a.m. - Messages from December 12, 2002 
                    feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

2:37 a.m. - August 20, 1996 Rosary
                    from the Mass Book

3:50 a.m. - Songs from Jesus

4:00 a.m. - Mass

April 6, 2003

Jesus speaks:         My Movement is a Movement of love.

                          My Building of the Two Hearts must be

                                a building of love.

                          I have chosen servants and handmaids

                                in charge —

                                Those participating follow the

                                    procedures in love.

                                Contact people live by the messages.

                                This is My contact center.

                          Your work is reaping benefits.

                          You have given your love and

                                your hard work to help

                                the mailing reach My 

                                priests by Easter.

                            My mission here is a major part

                                    of the Fatima mission.

                            DO NOT EVER LET THIS

                                GIFT I give you

                                here become ordinary.

                            I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

                                Your purpose must

                                always be to build 

                                up the Kingdom.

                            Fr. Carter gave his life

                                discerning messages to

                                maintain the purity

                                of the Movement.

                            Other theories are not to    

                                be discussed on

                                this site.

                            The purpose is prayer.

                            Those working here as main

                                workers must attend

                                daily Mass and do one

                                hour before the Blessed

                                Sacrament.

                            Do not come here to work if

                                you must skip your hour.

                                Do your hour first.                            

                            The work on the mailing

                                is helping to turn

                                the world into

                                a city of light.

                            I thank you for all

                                your love, sacrifice

                                and work for this.

                            You must be a 

                                city of light

                                living by the

                                messages.

                            Little messages are

                                important —

                                hourly prayer

                                Blue Book Readings

                                6:20 prayers

                            So much happens in

                                Shepherds of Christ

                                in one day.

April 6, 2003

Jesus speaks:        My dear people,

                                    It is obedience I want. At the time of Adam and

                                Eve they did their own wills.

                                Look at the story of Cain and Abel.

                                I send a messenger to you, Father Carter died.

                                My messenger for My site in Florida is Rita Ring.

                                I have given you the gifts of the 5th.

                                My Mother appeared.

                                I appeared.

                                Do you think I would appear in these troubled times

                                    and not send messages.

                                 I ask you to obey to do what I desire with the

                                    Building of the 2 Hearts to spread the devotion to

                                    My Heart and My Mother's heart.

                                I will tell you a story. I send gifts to you in the Church —

                                    willful people complain and hurt My Church. They

                                    have had relationships their whole lives, they 

                                    go to churches, they want to be leaders, they

                                    play the role of victims, they use My Church

                                    and act out their anger on My Church.

                                    When the others try to promote prayer and

                                    good works, they think of dark things, they

                                    take up time and energy giving into satan

                                    and his dark ways.

                                Fr. Carter said every institution has problems —

                                    the pope has tremendous problems.

                                Oh I give you My community Shepherds of Christ,

                                    I want love, commitment and harmony. 

                                    Apostles are apostles that live by the messages,

                                    they build up My Movement.

                                You are on the front line of battle.

                                    I am sending messages to guide you.

                                    Mary appears daily to tell the world they

                                        must obey God and pray.

                                    My Movement is not an office building.

                                        I operate in structure.

                                        This is an honor to be called to Apostleship

                                at the building of Our Two Hearts.

                                Anyone living in community houses, servants,

                                    handmaids and apostle houses must

                                    realize My houses are an extension of

                                    the center for the purpose of promoting

                                    love in community life for the world.

                                How can you tell the world about love if

                                    you act unloving.

                                Those I call to special apostleship are living

                                    in community houses that are My

                                    houses for promoting love.

                                My Heart is a Heart of love.

                                The gift I have given to the world in

                                    Florida is an extraordinary gift.

                                    Never should such a gift become

                                    ordinary.

                                Let me tell you of a community, the Virgin

                                    Mary appeared to them and they used

                                    this special gift for their own self-

                                    promotion. Soon the gift was 

                                    taken away. The fruits were not there.

                                I give you the way to help lead the world

                                    into the Reign of My Sacred Heart and

                                    triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart.

                                    My way is joy and love.

                                    Every day I give you Myself in the

                                        Eucharist to feed you.

                                    I give you My Word to feed you.

                                I am a God of love.

                                My Building of the Two Hearts must be a

                                    house of love.

                                You are given the awesome responsibility by

                                    Me to Spread the Devotion to My Heart and

                                    My Mother's heart. To come to My House

                                    of the 2 Hearts your hearts must be filled

                                    with love.

                                LOVE — LOVE — LOVE

                                definition of love —

                                    love gives

                                    love is not selfish

                                I am LOVE.

                                Some people talk about Me, but are unloving.

                                Some people treat My work as a job for

                                    self-promotion.

                                My ways are ways of love.

                                My Heart is on Fire for love of you.

                                Some come to My Church, they give and give and

                                    then become bitter because they did it to

                                    get things for themselves.

                                Look at Me on the cross —
  

Jesus speaks:        I gave My all for love of you.

                                Today look at the gifts I give you in My Churches.

                                It wounds My Heart —

                                    many are so ungrateful.

                                I give them the sacraments —

                                    and they criticize and complain —

                                Build up My Body and

                                    love Me.

                                My Church is My bride.

                                My priests are so special to Me.

                                I love My priests so much.

Mary speaks:             I have called you to be a light to the nations

                                    My Son Jesus is the Son of God —

                                    My Son Jesus has given you His Movement.

                                I am the Virgin Mary.

                                I appear here for the world.

                                You are to be a city of light —

                                This is the building of Our Two Hearts

                                My Son has given direct messages of what

                                    He wants accomplished and how.

                                    1)  The Priestly Newsletter of My Son
                                         given to Fr. Carter is to be circulated.

                                    2)  Prayer Chapters to be begun around
                                         the world.

                                    3)  Discernment was an important issue to
                                         Fr. Carter, all those speaking for
                                         Shepherds of Christ in anyway here
                                         at My image site have been given
                                         commission by my Son and Fr. Carter.

                                    Training for communication is essential.

                                    No one is to be a contact person here
                                        unless they have been appointed by
                                        Him.

                                Discernment of all written and audio
                                    materials have been discerned by
                                    a Catholic priest.

                               The purity of the Movement is essential.

                                Those who complain about leaders
                                    and the Movement hurt the
                                    work I wish to accomplish here.

                                I beg YOU to pray for grace to be holy.

                                Pray for healing for yourselves to do
                                    as God wills.

                                Pray to always help further My Son's
                                    Movement, never to do the work
                                    of the evil one because of your 
                                    willfulness to hurt My Son's Movement
                                    and my Mission here in anyway.

                                A person that comes to serve — serves.

                                A person that serves and wants it for
                                    their own selfish recognition soon
                                    begins to whine, complain and
                                    ask for a pay back.

                                Read the talk of Fr. Carter February 1 often.

                                Do not give into satan.

                                Those part of the Shepherds of Christ
                                    Community must live the way of life.

                                Those part of the Shepherds of Christ
                                    Community live to build up My Son's
                                    Movement not use it in any way for
                                    selfish gain.

                                Those in authority are obeyed by those
                                    under them.

                                To not enforce the messages for one in 
                                    authority is to hurt the Movement.

                                To not follow the leaders because of
                                    not wanting to be under anyone will
                                    cause problems.

                                Some people never want to be under anyone
                                    in authority. Their very presence
                                    presents a problem for the authority,
                                    for they are always trying to be on
                                    top and discredit the authority.
                                    Passive-aggressive behavior is when
                                    someone who is not a leader gets power
                                    through complaining and trying to
                                    discredit authority for their own selfish gain.

                                Look at the family where the child always
                                    causes trouble — he is often rebelling
                                    against authority.

                                Some people will cause problems
                                    every place they go because of their
                                    inability to ever be under anyone.

Talk by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.
given to the Apostles in the 
Shepherds of Christ Movement
   

February 1, 1998
   

    Well, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen all of you at once in the same place. It’s a tremendous treat for me. So praise be the Lord. Let’s start with the Holy Spirit Prayer.

    Come, Holy Spirit, almighty Sanctifier, God of love, who filled the Virgin Mary with grace, who wonderfully changed the hearts of the apostles, who endowed all Your martyrs with miraculous courage, come and sanctify us. Enlighten our minds, strengthen our wills, purify our consciences, rectify our judgment, set our hearts on fire, and preserve us from the misfortunes of resisting Your inspirations. Amen.

    ...So after I talk here I will have to depart and leave the praying to you at this place. I’ll be praying with you as I drive away...  

    ...I’m spending much more time on the newsletter now. Our Lord had been calling me to do that for months but it was when I was fully active it was very, very hard to get the time to really spread it around the world like He wanted to, although we had been working with the English edition trying to get that in more and more countries. We are in about eighty or more countries with the English edition... 

    And in cases where it needs translation, for instance, the Spanish edition we translate that up here, we print it up here and we bulk mail it.

    [Note: He talks about the spread of the Newsletter to priests and bishops in Central, South America in Spanish, Africa, India, French speaking, England, Scotland, New Zealand, Australia]

    ...It is Our Lord’s wish along with the prayer chapters that this be considered our primary ministry, the Newsletter. So please, please, please, please pray for it’s continued success and expansion. It is so extremely important because as you know, if you can change the heart of one priest, he is in a position to do so, so much good with even thousands of people. And we have received extremely encouraging letters over the years that the newsletters been published from priests, how it’s helped them out on their own spiritual life but in their ministries, giving them homilies and so forth. And from bishops which are highly encouraging commending us on the quality and the worthwhileness of the newsletter.

        

• Dear Father Carter,
  
      For years I have received Shepherds of Christ Newsletter; I do not know who put me on your mailing list, but I’m grateful to you both. Since I first began to receive the newsletter I have been assigned as the Director of Formation Advising for the Pontifical North American College in Rome.
  
      I would like to know if it would be possible to make a bulk order so that our seminarians could benefit from the newsletter as well. I will make sure they are distributed to our seminarians. At present we have about 200 seminarians and student priests on our campus, all eager for good spiritual reading!
  
      Please let me know if we can make an arrangement for the delivery of the newsletter here at the college.
  
      Please keep our faculty and seminarians in your prayers.
  
  Sincerely yours in Christ,

Rev. J. Mark Williams
Director of Formation Advising
Pontifical North American College
00120 Vatican City State

     

[He then talks about funds for the Newsletter.]

    I think I came to speak to you today because I think we’re at a very, very significant point of the Shepherds of Christ Movement as it marches into the new era of which was promised by Our Lady of Fatima. And I think the Movement is basically strong, basically healthy but I think we need a recommitment of ourselves to the Movement precisely because much more is being asked of us. We have three centers to staff not only with people but with materials.

    So as we go on in what Our Lord wants us to do, we just need a deeper commitment to the Movement just like the spiritual life in general. You never stand still on the spiritual journey. I mean spiritual masters have always told us this, you either go back or you go forward.

    And so it is with the Movement, we just don’t stand still. We have to keep on deepening our commitment to the Movement individually and collectively or it’s not going to move forward obviously. So I guess you can say that’s the main reason I thought it was very important that I come here today to speak to you to ask you to renew your commitment to Our Lord in the Movement. And to put some thoughts before (you) which hopefully will help you to renew your commitment.

    I’ll begin by reminding all of us of the great, great privilege it is to have been called to this Movement. I’ve said this before, I say it now even with deeper conviction, I really believe that this will go down in history as one of the great Movements in the history of the Church. And if you reflect upon what we’ve been called to do, I don’t think it’s hard to come to that conclusion. I don’t know of any just taking our ministry to the priests with the newsletter and with the prayer chapters whose primary duty is to pray for the priests as well as the whole human race. But I am unaware of any other Movement in the history of the Church which has tried to reach all priests the world over with the newsletter and the prayer chapters to the extent that we are trying to do so. So just those two ministries in themselves I think point to the greatness of this Movement. Then our many other ministries: the rosaries, the consecration of the schools, the nursing home, prison ministries are all our various publications. So much wonderful literature, rosary in the homes, one of our newest ministries, the couples rosary and the spirituality which comes out of that and we hope to work more and more nationally to strengthen marriage and family life through working with couples as couples.

    So if you look at what we are doing with the tremendous amount of materials which are being distributed from the Florida site and through orders from this site and through other sites.  

    So again I think this is one of the great, great Movements in the history of the Church. And we have to pinch ourselves every once in awhile and nudge ourselves and realize the great calling we have been given to work in this Movement. I think there has been a certain, despite all the great work which is being done, I think there is a certain stagnation which has set in to a certain degree and we have to jolt ourselves out of that and recommit ourselves.

    St. John of the Cross in one of his writings says—of course he is one of the greatest mystical theologians in the history of the Church and in one of his writings he says, “What does it profit you to give God one thing if He wishes for another? Consider what it is God wants and then do it.”

    Let’s read that again together “What does it profit you to give God one thing if He wishes for another? Consider what it is God wants and then do it.”

    [Father Carter is speaking to Servants and Handmaids of the Good Shepherd—]

  

  

    [Apostles who dedicate themselves completely to the Shepherds of Christ Ministries—]

  

   

  

   

    Applying that to our calling to Shepherds of Christ—there’s more work to this Movement than any of us, individually or all put together can ever attend to properly. What I am getting at, if you really feel you’ve been called to this Movement and especially to the apostle's level, I am suggesting to you very fervently and hopefully, persuasively, the Shepherds of Christ Ministries can use all the spare time, all the ministerial time you have to give to the work of the Kingdom. You don’t have to go around looking for other ministries to contribute your time to. You are free to do that, you are free to leave the Movement at any time. We are not forcing anyone to stay, we hope everybody stays but we have had people leave.

    So there should always be that, that sense of freedom if you want to lessen off your commitment or hopefully it would never happen, but if you would chose to leave the commitment, Jesus respects your freewill.

    But looking at it again positively I’m suggesting to you—there is so much work to be done in the Movement. So this first day of February which happened to be the month of the feast of St. Claude de la Columbiere, February the 15th, who has been one of the greatest apostles to the devotion to the Heart of Jesus in the history of the Church, so in a certain sense it’s a type of month of the Sacred Heart because of his feast, so I ask that all of us renew our commitment to the Movement. And again realize the great privilege, that’s one of the first ways to persevere in the Movement and to grow in the Movement, everyday to thank God for the great graces He has given you in the Movement.

    And I ask you just briefly to look back over your lives, now compared to when you joined the Movement. Has not Our Lord through Our Lady drawn you so, so, so much closer to Them. And He in turn has led you so much closer to the Father and the Spirit. The chairman of our theology department, the first departmental meeting when he took over, he said Xavier has been very good to me, now I feel it’s payback time and I think I should serve the University being chair of the Theology department. Being chair of a department, it’s really a pain of any department. But those words stick in my mind, he says now it is payback time. I should payback Xavier for all the good Xavier has done to me. I suggest we keep that in mind in reference to Jesus in His Movement. It’s always payback time. He does not give us graces and gifts in the Movement just for ourselves. Every gift of Jesus has a social dimension, it’s meant not only for my own spiritual growth, but for growth of the Kingdom. And so if we find ourselves becoming somewhat complacent in our gifts received through the Movement and not properly using them at least to the full extent that we could and helping to spread the Movement, helping to spread the Kingdom, then let us resolve here and now to do better.

    Perseverance in the Movement—all vocations, all callings need perseverance. I pray for perseverance as a Jesuit every day of my life. I pray for perseverance. I’m suggesting to all of us that we pray for perseverance in the Movement and not just a status quo type of perseverance, but pray for a perseverance which will allow us to dynamically grow and be greater apostles in the Movement. And we have to take the means to persevere.

    First of all, of course, is Mass and communion, then our visit to the Blessed Sacrament, saying the rosary and listening to at least five minutes a day to a live rosary which Rita receives, praying the hourly prayers without feeling overburdened. If you begin to feel overburdened by the hourly novena just make a 30 second prayer, say Jesus, say the three invocations, “Lord ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you, through the intercession of Mary, thy most holy mother I knock, I seek, I ask that my prayer be granted” and just say we pray for all needs of the Shepherds of Christ Movement and the other two invocations. You can do that in about 30 seconds. And then at times of course when you have the time and you feel moved bring in the specific intentions. But that hourly prayer has great power to keep our motivation up but it should not on the other hand feel burdensome to you. If it feels burdensome to you for any length of time, just use the short form for quite a while.

    [Note: servants and handmaids and apostles of the Good Shepherd of the Shepherds of Christ Movement go to daily Mass and spend one hour before the tabernacle and pray hourly for the priests, the Church and the world.]

    Reading the Blue Book messages, at least just a few minutes a day, can do wonders to help us persevere in the Movement. Renew your love and commitment to the Movement. Included in that renewed love and commitment I think should be a resolution that we don’t bad mouth the Movement, certainly not to those outside the Movement, certainly not even to those within the Movement. We have problems, we always have had some, we always will, the universal Church has monumental problems. But we have to learn how to handle the problems responsibly. If you have a significant problem please contact John or Rita, talk it over with them, with me if you feel so called. They usually report problems to me. I’m in constant contact with them. Currently I talk to them each day about the Movement, what’s going on, strong points, weak points and so forth. If you have problems with the Movement, don’t spread your problem with the problems to somebody else who starts to think negatively also.

    I mean go to Jesus, of course, first of all, but then bring your problem to somebody who has the authority in the Movement to handle it. That’s very, very important, 'cause our loyalty and love for the Movement, I think are significantly harmed when we don’t take that approach. Obedience in the Movement is going to become more and more important as the Movement grows. Any organization needs a certain structure, a hierarchy of command, obedience to legitimate authority. When John asks you to do something, please try to answer his request. If you can’t, just tell him I can’t do it now. When he directs you to do something, which is stronger than a request, don’t give him a hard time. Jesus wants obedience in the Movement. No Movement can survive or progress without obedience, without a structure of command. John has a terrifically difficult job. Don’t make it more difficult for him by, as I say, giving him a hard time or by never answering his request for help.

    I understand that the level of volunteerism here at the center has gradually slackened off over recent months, and it is very difficult to get people together to do our mailings. We can’t keep depending on just a few people all the time. Here again it’s payback time. I mean everyday is payback time. You can never fully repay Jesus for what He has done for us or what He continues to do for us. Now we have to use Christian prudence in all this, we’ve got family duties; we’ve got other duties that’s God’s will for us. We have to take care of those. But granting all those other calls on our time and our energy, if Jesus has called you to this Movement, He’s called each and every one of you, then He expects you to live up to your commitment. And if it’s always looked upon, if you feel it’s always more of a burden than a privilege, then I think a person has to consider, 'Shall I stay in the Movement?' Jesus loves a cheerful giver. Suffering is involved, is it not? Any following of Christ involves suffering. Any non following of Christ brings suffering, and a greater suffering—those who don’t believe, who don’t have any religious faith or conviction. They end up suffering much more than we who suffer in the following of Christ.

    I would like to read you something that I’ve written on suffering that will appear in the next newsletter—

   

FATHER CARTER'S VOICE WAS VERY SAD
and VERY LOVING.

      

        Excerpt from Priestly Newsletter 1998 Issue 1

Suffering

To follow Jesus entails a willingness to suffer for Him and His cause. The furthering of any worthwhile cause demands a spirit of sacrifice, a willingness to endure a variety of hardships and difficulties. We cannot expect it to be otherwise regarding the cause of Christ. To help further the process of ongoing redemption demands a price.

There is an almost endless variety of pains, sufferings, and difficulties which can arise in following Jesus and promoting His cause. At times seeing few, if any, visible results of our labors, feeling unappreciated, experiencing opposition, sometimes comprehending that we are being hated precisely by some of those whom we are striving to help, at times being laughed at and ridiculed—these are some of the ways we experience the sufferings of an apostle.

The suffering involved in contributing to the process of ongoing redemption is not, however, the complete picture. The happiness resulting from commitment to Christ and His mission far outweighs the hardships. To be aware that one is so intimately loved by Jesus, to experience the satisfaction that one is contributing to a cause that cannot fail, to play a role in helping to bring to others the love and peace of Jesus—all of this makes for a life that has no equal. The committed follower of Christ, experiencing what it means to be closely associated with Jesus, realizes why St. Peter said, Lord,…it is wonderful for us to be here. (Mt. 17:4). 

  

Father Carter's talk continues

    So in God’s plan in the following of Christ, suffering is always meant to lead to greater life here and hereafter, not only greater life for us as we grow in Jesus through the proper handling of suffering, but also greater life in the sense that we become more apt instruments for channeling His life to others, as we are purified by His suffering, so that we may more and more allow Him to live in and through and for us. One of the greatest Apostles of all times of suffering showing us the place of suffering in the Christian dispensation is St. Paul. He brings out this theme of death-resurrection of Jesus and our participation in it in various places in his writing. I think one of the most dramatic of those places is in

   

2 Corinthians 4: 7-11

         The hardships and hopes of the apostolate

But we hold this treasure in pots of earthenware, so that the immensity of the power is God’s and not our own. We are subjected to every kind of hardship, but never distressed; we see no way out but we never despair; we are pursued but never cut off; knocked down, but still have some life in us; always we carry with us in our body the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus, too, may be visible in our body. Indeed, while we are still alive, we are continually being handed over to death, for the sake of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus, too, may be visible in our mortal flesh.

    

Father Carter's talk continues

    So we suffer with Jesus, so that here below and in eternity, so that we may live more with Him, and that we may become more fit instruments for helping to channel His life to others. We have a particular way of doing that, a magnificent way within the Shepherds of Christ Movement. He hung upon a cross on a hill called Calvary. He had already suffered so much, had He not? He had been brutally scourged at the pillar, crowned with thorns, laughed at, ridiculed, without sleep. He had to carry the heavy cross up the hill, upon reaching the hill He was mercilessly nailed to the cross. He hung there in that agonizing suffering until death came. His side was pierced and from His pierced Heart flowed blood and water, symbols of sacramental life in the Church, Baptism and the Eucharist. And as He hung on that cross nearing death in that brutalized suffering, St. Francis de Sales, who was a Doctor of the Church—a Doctor of the Church means that the Church recognizes not only the great holiness of the person, but the great learning, the great wisdom—in one of his classic works, St. Francis de Sales, his work Treatise on God's Divine Love, he says, “As Jesus hung upon the cross there in that brutal suffering each of us was present to Him. He knew each of us intimately and the perfect one gave His last drop of blood for you and for me.” So if we ever have problems with our motivation in the Movement, I suggest that we come to the foot of the cross and we realize what Jesus has done for me and continues to do. It is payback time. St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, has left us this beautiful prayer, “Lord teach me to be generous, teach me to serve you as you deserve, to give and not to count the cost, to fight and not to heed the wounds, to toil and not to seek for rest, to labor and not to ask for reward save that of knowing that I do your will.”  

      

    Now I will give the blessing. May the blessing of Almighty God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit descend upon you and remain forever. Amen.

end of Father Carter's talk February 1, 1998

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