Mary has requested that the daily message be given each day to the world. It is read nightly at the prayer service from her Image Building in Clearwater, Florida, U.S.A. This is according to her request. All attempts will be made to publish this daily message to the world at 11 p.m. Eastern time, U.S.A.


We acknowledge that the final authority regarding these messages rests with the Holy See of Rome.


I appear my children on this former bank building in Florida, Our Lady Clothed with the Sun.

April 9, 2000


A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul

Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.


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


Messenger: Authority is a gift from God.

Jesus speaks: I write in these messages, the responses are given as part of the message, My messenger is told how to deliver the message to you and what to say.

Prayers given through the messengers were given from Me. Because I and My Mother at times are not speaking in the first person does not mean that the messages given in these daily messages are not from Us.

Prayers were received as gifts for you, likewise the songs, the family consecration, all of these were given from Me, most of which is not My direct message in the 1st person.

I am delivering messages for the earth to bring greater renewal to the Church and the world through My two messengers.

It is I Who speak to you in My priestly newsletter. I am leading My priests and Church into renewal through consecration and a deeper focus on the important aspects in living a holy spousal union with Me.

The Church is My bride.

The Church is mother.

The Church is My body, I am the head.

The Church is one.

The Church is holy.

The Church is catholic.

The Church is apostolic.

The Church is My bride, the spouse of the Lamb.

I come to set the captives free.

I come to set the world free with My truth. I will conquer the earth.


March 26, 1996
Message given through Rita Ring

R. I came to All Saints Church before a beautiful Monstrance of gold that contained Our beloved Savior. He was adorned in light, the altar beneath shone with the brightest light and the cross behind was entirely silhouetted with the same celestial light. I was overwhelmed with the presence of God and cried deeply from the awe of it all.

To be so aware of the Almighty God truly present in His splendor and glory--to know the presence of God, to see the glistening of the gold and the light and reflection of the cross behind Him--my beauteous love--words do not exist to describe the rapture of a heavenly embrace! I cry because of the immense awe within my being to know Him. God truly present in His majesty and glory and oh, God, I behold the presence of a heavenly court. You opened wide the heavens and lifted up the veil and I knew You in Your splendor and glory. I behold God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

"I am the Way, the Truth and the Life." He is the Almighty God. He shows us the celestial lights with which He will light this earth. Many must surrender their hearts to His Heart and Mary's heart. It is in surrendering, the Spirit will move in the hearts of men and the light of God will shine on the darkened earth. Not with a light that you comprehend, but a light that is divinely granted--a light beyond all lights, a vision beyond all visions. It takes the surrender of minds and hearts to God. The Spirit cannot move in us when we are in control. Surrender and give Him our heart and He will make us fishers of men.

We are His apostles in the Shepherds of Christ Movement. He is sending us out into the world to light the hearts with His burning love. We are chosen by Him and He is giving us abundant graces to grow in our union with Him. He will light this world with His burning love. Our hearts must be open. We must surrender and let go and reach beyond the senses, reach with our hearts. Pray for faith, pray for the vision of God.

Note: I cried all through this writing, having the presence of God and being in great ecstasy to behold Him. May God touch your heart and may His Spirit move within you. May you be filled with the grace of God to surrender and let Him accomplish a great work within you.

And I was filled on high with His miraculous light and He reached down and spoke within me. I was filled as never before and knew the presence of God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Note: As I finished, the bells at All Saints Church rang at 9:00 A.M. As I began to experience the immense splendor, the bells of 8:00 rang. Words do not express anything that I saw or experienced or know from this ecstasy. This was the greatest and the first of three visions, which defined clearly to me our role in the Shepherds of Christ Movement. Jesus defines clearly the role of our Founder in this great mission given to him by the Father.

For Founder from Jesus:

To him who has eyes to see, they will see - not with earthly vision, but with the eyes of faith, and to him who has ears to hear, he will hear with the fluttering of the Spirit moving within him.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. I am the Almighty God. I say to the rocks to fall and they fall and to the grass, grow, and it grows, and to the sun, shine, and it shines. I give to you My love in these letters. Filled with My love, you will conquer this earth, not with weapons and powder or force, but with fires of My love. The fire will wipe out the hatred in the cold hearts and the earth will be covered with My celestial light. The earth will rock and I will appear in the heavens adorned in power and glory and the contrite hearts will be saved. I came to separate the sheep from the goats, the light from the darkness. I come and no one pays Me heed.

To you, My beloved son, Father Carter, I have sent you on a mission to spread this fire that will cover this earth. The hearts of men will turn from their sick and desolate ways to hearts gentle as a little lamb.

There will be one flock and one Shepherd and My staff will rule over all. Hearts consecrated to Our Hearts will lead the light across the earth. This light will be a light of intense brightness, brighter and hotter than any light from a flame. It will be the fire of God's love. The Spirit will move in the hearts of all consecrated to My Heart, and you will know how fire truly spreads, for the love of God is a fire. It is vibrant. It is encompassing. It is smoldering, burning deep within and speedily spreading on the outside. No fire on this earth can ever describe the burning embers that burn from the Sacred Heart of Jesus. No fire burns like the fires coming from My Heart and hearts filled with the love from the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

I have written your name, Father Carter, in My Heart, never ever to be blotted out and this earth will be renewed with the fire of God's love through you. You are My beloved priest-son, forever, according to the order of Melchizedek. Most holy and most sacred are your hands that consecrate the Host and write My precious newsletter for My beloved priest-sons. You are never unguarded. You are held within the deepest chamber of My Heart, and you will spread My love to the priest-sons of this earth.

I am Jesus. You will spread My love to all souls on this earth. I love you with the tenderest burning love. I am Jesus, your beloved Savior.

(End of March 26, 1996, Message.)


Jesus speaks: My beautiful men, authority is a gift from God. The devil has waged an all-out attack against authority. He has led men to feel they should be autonomous.

I tell you this. I am God. The Son of God. I am God-made-man to save the sinful race. You have twisted My words and made perverted stories out of the Gospel, you have blasphemed Me and My Mother, you have twisted My word and taught your young untruths. My men, you are in need of renewal. You anger your God.

Like the men who could not wait for Moses to return from the mountain, you have worshipped a molten calf and blasphemed your God.

And I so tenderly love you. With age-old love and the patience of God, I watch you destroy one another and disobey Me. I watch you in your willfulness try to make God into a god of the world and I am unchanging.

My men, it is the purity that is in your hearts that matters, humility, recognition that God is above you. Do not put yourselves on the top.

It is good for men to follow authority that is holy and rooted in God.

Your world has taught you that you must not bow to anyone. Although many in the world are not trustworthy and true, you must believe in God, you must trust God, you must obey the commandments, you must realize you are children, ---- children of God, and for God to reign in your hearts you must accept Him as your ruler and King.

I showed you the way. I obeyed My Father to My death on the cross. I showed you about authority. I was under My Father and over you. The Church is under My Father and I am over you. The mutual love-gift of the Father and the Son is the Holy Spirit. I am God. God is speaking in these messages to you so that you will be renewed, that you will be humble, docile, children of God living by His way, following the 10 commandments, respecting the authority of the Church, and praying with all your hearts for your Church leaders, for all bishops, cardinals, priests, all involved in the Church, all directing the Church. I speak to you in My Church. You must pray as I have instructed.

Oh, My world, pray as I tell you, please. Your world is suffering, I am the Savior of the World. You are connected to your God in obeying authority. You must pray for all involved in the Church. They are imperfect. Why won’t you pray as I have instructed you?

I come to bring you peace. Your Mother has promised you the great era of peace. Your children will continue to be eaten by the snares of the devil as long as you disobey the Lady of Fatima. If you want peace you must do as she has told you. You must pray the rosary. You must give your hearts to Our two Hearts. I am the King of all hearts. Mary is the Queen. I want your willing surrender. You need to observe the First Saturday devotion and make reparation to Our Hearts. After World War II you suffered. You suffer now. As long as you disobey the message of Mary at Fatima, you will suffer. First with a brutal war, World War II, in which the whole world suffered. Now you suffer the massacre of children’s minds and hearts by your tainted world.

I tell you this, YOU MUST PRAY THE ROSARY. YOU MUST GIVE YOUR hearts to Me and My Mother. The children of Eve must recognize their sins and say they are sorry and realize that salvation is in the Savior. I am Jesus Christ, Savior of the World.

Your world fights the evil forces of the devil NOW.

Men died on the battle fields during World War II, now your children are dying in their spiritual lives.

Oh, your Mother cries and you ignore her. See the wounded, see the dead thrown on trucks in World War II. Did you hear your Mother cry?

Now she cries from the building in Florida. A main part of the Shepherds of Christ Movement is to get the rosary in the hands of all Mary’s children to pray it and to lead them to consecration, that they will give their lives to Our pure and holy Hearts.

She appears a golden Woman to lead her children to victory. She appeared on that April 5, 2000, eve to you. I want more and more souls to come on the 5ths of the month and pray. Great graces are given from My site in Florida. I want you to pray the prayers I have given for the priests, and the renewal of the Church and the world.

Tell nursing homes and the sick, prisoners and school children to pray for the Shepherds of Christ intentions. It is only by prayer that you will reach more and more souls.

Not by guns and powder and force, but from love deep in your hearts. In unity, united as a body praying, you will help your children.

Mary speaks: I am Mary, your Mother. I beg you to help me with the completion of my Fatima mission from my site in Florida. I beg you to help through prayer and donations to get the rosary in the hands of all the children and teach them to pray it. I beg you as your heavenly Mother to spread the rosary to all and to spread the consecration.

Have the little cards that say: "I give my Heart to Jesus and Mary with you in love" distributed all over the world in great numbers, give them to all, tell them to greet one another this way.

My children, many are dying spiritually. I come and I cry to you. I want the traditional scapular given with my rosary. I want you to wear it always. I ask the papers given with the school rosary program be given with the scapular.

I love you so much. You must work with me and follow my directions. Every word and picture of the Shepherds of Christ must be pure and right. This is my Son’s Movement for renewal. It is to help in the renewal of the Church and the world.

I love you so much. I want you to help me reach the world with the rosary and the scapular. Please help me, help me, help me, many of my children are dying. You must pray the rosary and consecrate your hearts.

I am Mary, your Mother, I love you.


April 9, 2000 - Second Message


Jesus speaks: I ask that you come to the retreat in China, Indiana, April 12, 13,14, 2000. It begins about 12:00 China, Indiana, time, April 12. On April 13, Holy Spirit Novena and Shepherds of Christ prayers and rosary begin at 12:00 noon, Indiana time. This continues to about 5:00 P.M. At 5:20, the 6:20 prayers begin in accord with Florida time. 

There is usually a church full of people praying from noon until 5:00 on the 13th., this is an important prayer session.

There will be the usual closing of the retreat at 12:00 p.m., April 14th.

I have requested special prayer in China, Indiana, before the Blessed Sacrament on Fridays between 12:00 and 3:00 p.m.

This adoration will continue until 3:00 on Friday, April 14, 2000.

This time is special to Me.

I love you.
Jesus

Jesus speaks: Please come and pray for the priests, the Church and the world.

From today’s readings:

Reference Jeremiah 31: 31-34.


Hebrews 5: 7-9

During his life on earth, he offered up prayer and entreaty, with loud cries and with tears, to the one who had the power to save him from death, and, winning a hearing by his reverence, he learnt obedience, Son though he was, through his sufferings; when he had been perfected, he became for all who obey him the source of eternal salvation


John 12: 20- 33

Jesus foretells his death
and subsequent glorification

Among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. These approached Philip, who came from Bethsaida in Galilee, and put this request to him, ‘Sir, we should like to see Jesus.’ Philip went to tell Andrew, and Andrew and Philip together went to tell Jesus.

Jesus replied to them:

Now the hour has come
for the Son of man to be glorified.
In all truth I tell you,
unless a wheat grain falls into the earth
   and dies,
it remains only a single grain;
but if it dies
it yields a rich harvest.
Anyone who loves his life loses it;
anyone who hates his life in this world
will keep it for eternal life.
Whoever serves me, must follow me,
and my servant will be with me
   wherever I am.
If anyone serves me,
   my Father will honour him.
Now my soul is troubled.
What shall I say:
Father, save me from this hour?
But it is for this very reason
   that I have come to this hour.
Father, glorify your name!

A voice came from heaven, ‘I have glorified it, and I will again glorify it.’
The crowd standing by, who heard this, said it was a clap of thunder; others said, ‘It was an angel speaking to him.’ Jesus answered, ‘It was not for my sake that this voice came, but for yours.

‘Now sentence is being passed
   on this world;
now the prince of this world
   is to be driven out.
And when I am lifted up from the earth,
I shall draw all people to myself.’

By these words he indicated the kind of death he would die.


Sorrowful MotherMary'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.

Song: O Lady of Light, shining so bright, be with us this day, guiding our way, O Lady, O Lady of Light.

Mary speaks: I appear to you as Our Mother of Sorrows.

(End of Mary's Message)


MY VALENTINE FOR JESUS AND MARY
AND THE WORLD

I _________________ give my heart to
You Jesus and Mary on this day

_________________
I promise to help spread the devotion to
the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

          


Question for married couples and others in intimate relationships:

Q: How do I feel we can build each other up when we are tired and weary?


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