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.

May 12, 2001 

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

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

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

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

THE SECOND NEWSLETTER FATHER GAVE US ON OCTOBER 20, 2000 HAS GONE TO THE PRINTERS. FATHER WANTED THIS NEWSLETTER OUT.

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

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

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

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

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

May 12-14, 2001 - Retreat in China, Indiana - May 13th is a special anniversary of Fatima

May 12, 2001

Messenger: My letter to Jesus

                        My dear Jesus,
                            I came with my heart laid raw open to You.
                        Things with others are not the way we think many
                        times. The emotion I feel is so deep within me and
                        I feel a sword could never penetrate this depth of
                        all that I feel. My days are spent in trying to survive,
                        sometimes, the tangles I feel satan has set to try to
                        stop Your work. My energy runs low, very low and
                        I miss Fr. Carter, but I am growing into a deeper
                        understanding how truly connected I am to him.

                            I see my life as a choice. I want moments alone with
                        You to just be with You, as my beloved bridegroom,
                        sometimes these moments are so clouded with the 
                        distractions of my life.

                            My deep desire is to love and serve You and do Your
                        will. The lack of understanding on the part of others
                        leaves me feeling isolated many times, but forces me
                        into a deeper love union with You and realization
                        of my dependence on You.

                            I hear the words You spoke six years ago, summer of
                        1995. "The seeds of time move exceedingly slow" and I
                        ponder the meaning, knowing truly how slow it is for us
                        to change life long patterns of behavior and how blind
                        we are many times to the real meaning of life.

                            A mole, a mark, a sore that never would heal and
                        all of a sudden a cancer of deep proportion lurks beneath
                        the hidden surface of the skin.

                            I want some things and am afraid to tell others many
                        times "No it isn't God's will for me to do this or that."
                        My life is spent in trying to do God's will for me at
                        every second realizing that what I do has a chain
                        reaction and affects so many others.

                            What is God's will for me, a good idea may not be
                        God's will, a mother, leaving her little children administering
                        to strangers may very well not be God's will for her.

                            What is His will for me? Doing good works may be
                        very good, but if it isn't the work God wills me to do,
                        I may affect many others with my valor to do something
                        I think is good, but not what God wants me to do.

                            I receive Your messages and they are very clear
                        many times and if we do not follow them they would
                        affect a lot of others.

                            I thank You for this Movement and the holy way of 
                        life You have taught us.

                            It is a gift You have given, to have given us so many,
                        many prayers to help us lead this holy way of life.

                            Your directions are clear, Your prayers are to lead
                        us to greater oneness with You and greater holiness.

                            I see everyday as I meditate on all 15 mysteries of the
                        rosary why it is so important to go through them all.
                        I love the rosary so much. It gives me such peace in
                        the raging war against satan who doesn't like the work
                        we are doing.

                            Father Carter was always here helping me.
                            Now I see how God has sent others to help us and
                            I am indeed most grateful for their help.

                            I am constantly dependent on You, my beloved.
                        There are so many expectations, so many weaknesses,
                            so many shattered dreams, so many little things,
                            details that need to be worked out.

                        I realize my time is not my time at all for I have
                            given my life to You to help bring more
                            fruit for the Kingdom.

                        I want You to run my life.
                        I want to surrender and let go, but I see that You
                            have placed rules and regulations in the Church
                            and that we need to follow these.
                        The Church is the authority over us.

                        There is always an exception to the rule, but the basic
                            love should be there for our Church and its
                            ministers.

                        You love Your Church.
                        You love her today.
                        I want wholeness, I want to live a more perfected life
                            in You.
                        I want to hear the voice of the Good Shepherd and
                            follow Him.

                        I want my life to be as You desire.
                        I want to be a messenger of God delivering the message
                            to the world, the message of Your love and
                            Your goodness.

                        I want to tell souls about the Eucharist.
                        I surrender to You and ask You to run my life.

                        Today after communion, what I wanted was to
                            feel that deep presence all day, I don't
                            want that presence to ever leave me.

                        I remember Father Carter saying, "Rita, it's a grace
                            to want to love Him so much."

                        It is a grace God has given us to want to be with Jesus
                            before the tabernacle and love to go to Mass
                            and pray the rosary.

                        We take the gifts He gives us for granted many times.

                        May the joy of living more and more in Him and being
                            one with others through a deeper consecration 
                            in Him fill our days.

                        On this day tomorrow, May 13, 2001, Mother's Day,
                            may we see our role of helping to bring forth
                            fruit for the Kingdom.

                        Mother, what a beautiful word.

                        How much Mary has taught us about being a Mother.

                        How grateful I am for Holy Mother, the Church.

                        May the Church grow more and more in helping
                            the children. May she help them to grow
                            in their love union with God. May we cherish
                            her as our spiritual mother leading us into
                            deeper love union with God.

                        Mother, I am a mother. Mary asked us to help
                            mother her children, we do this when
                            we are good mothers ourselves and when
                            we pray for them and pray for all of 
                            Mary's children. 

                    Mother, Mother, Mother, a word so sweet.

May 12, 2001 message continues

Messenger:    And Mary our Mother is appearing in Clearwater.

                        Mary appears to tell her children how much she loves
                            them.

                        When Mary appeared daily, she cried out to reach
                            her children, she said they were dropping
                            into hell like rain.

                        On this Mother's Day will you hear the lady call?
                            May 13, 2001 Mother's Day

                            84 years since May 13, 1917 when Mary
                                first appeared at Fatima

                            We have not obeyed her requests of Fatima yet.

                        Oh God I pray help us. I ask that we can more and
                            more do what Mary and Jesus have asked us to
                            do and I ask for funds.

                        Here is a short writing I received on Mother's Day a
                            few years ago.

May 16, 1998

My Father,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

end of prayer to the Father

May 12, 2001 message continues

Messenger:   Mary Our Mother Help Us.

April 14, 2001 Holy Saturday

Holy Saturday - April 14, 2001

Holy Saturday - April 14, 2001

from the plane on Holy Saturday

from the plane on Holy Saturday

from the plane on Holy Saturday

May 12, 2001 message continues

Messenger:   While the Churches celebrated Holy Saturday
                            liturgies here are the pictures we
                            took from the sky.

                           "Christ is our light"

                           "Mary is our Mother"

Let's all pray for Holy Mother the Church.               Jesus has appeared and asked us to pray the                   prayers in the Shepherd of Christ book for                   the priests, the Church and the world.                  Let's pray for the Church. It is a gift.                    God loves His Church.

May 12, 2001 message continues

Messenger:    The Church is such a gift.

                        Satan doesn't like us praying these powerful
                            prayers Jesus gave to Father Carter.

                        We have had such opposition spreading
                            the prayer chapters.

                        Jesus referred to Himself as

                            "Chief Shepherd of the Flock" when
                                  He wrote to Father Carter.

                        Good Shepherd Sunday was the week
                            before Mother's Day.

    Gospel from Good Shepherd Sunday

John 10: 27-30 The sheep that belong to me     listen to my voice;  I know them and they follow me. I give them eternal life; they will never be lost  and no one will ever steal them      from my hand. The Father, for what he has given me,     is greater than anyone, and no one can steal anything      from the Father’s hand. The Father and I are one.

May 12, 2001 message continues

Messenger:    Father's funeral Mass was December 22, 2000
                            6 months later is the
                            Feast of the Sacred Heart, June 22, 2001.

                        Father's burial was December 23, 2000
                            6 months later is the
                            Feast of the Immaculate Heart.

         EVERY DETAIL, EVERY DATE  is so important to God. The very hairs of our
                        head are numbered.

                        From when Father was diagnosed with
                            Cancer September 22, 2000 to
                                        June 22, 2000 Feast of the Sacred
                                                              Heart is 9 months.

                        Here is a message I received 3 years
                            before Father was diagnosed with cancer.

From the September 22, 1997 message

Jesus speaks: "STIFF-NECKED, stiff-necked, stiff-necked. There will be a new heaven and a new earth. The old order will pass away. For they worshipped Me with their lips only and their hearts were far from Me.

I will rock the earth and bring the senseless men to their knees. They will learn to beg ‘LAMB OF GOD, YOU TAKE AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD, HAVE MERCY ON US!"

Their thoughts are far from me....

I am the LAMB OF GOD. I AM THE BRIDEGROOM OF THEIR SOULS -- of a country of stiffs, naked in their ways, their hearts are haughty, for they persist in their same ways.

They are resistant to change. They refuse to go to the Heart of My Mother, yet she is their Mother and Mother of the Church.

Oh, to a world of stiff-necked.... I give you this message. Look at My Body on the cross, it was broken and mutilated, it was constrained, it was the picture of torment and twisting.

I speak through these messages and you continue in your stiff-necked ways. Would the destruction of your temples bring you to your knees? Or should I destroy My own houses? Or would they get the message anyway, if I burned them down?

(Messenger: On September 22, 1997, He said this. I suffered for several days.  Then the basilica in Assisi was destroyed.)

Messenger: On September 22, 1997, He said, "Would the destruction of your temples bring you to your knees? Or should I destroy My own houses?"

I suffered and suffered for three days.

At the end of the week, an earthquake tore apart the Basilica in Assisi and a picture of St. Francis and St. Clare, a famous fresco, was on many of the newspapers around the world.

end of September 22, 1997, message

May 12, 2001 message continues

Messenger:    On June 22, 2001 it will be 3 months since
                            the documentary was made
                            March 22, 2001 - time really
                                flies.

                        Here is the second reading from Mother's Day

                            May 13, 2001

Revelation 21: 1-5a

The heavenly Jerusalem

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared now, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride dressed for her husband. Then I heard a loud voice call from the throne, ‘Look, here God lives among human beings. He will make his home among them; they will be his people, and he will be their God, God–with–them. He will wipe away all tears from their eyes; there will be no more death, and no more mourning or sadness or pain. The world of the past has gone.’ 
    Then the One sitting on the throne spoke. ‘Look, I am making the whole of creation new.

 

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May 12, 2001 message continues

Messenger:    God is love.

                        Holy Mother Church is to give such love to her children.

                        LOVE, LOVE, LOVE

 

Gospel - Mother's Day

John 13: 31-33a, 34-35

When he had gone, Jesus said:

Now has the Son of man been glorified,
and in him God has been glorified. 
If God has been glorified in him, 
God will in turn glorify him in himself,
and will glorify him very soon.
Little children, 
I shall be with you only a little longer.
I give you a new commandment:
love one another;
you must love one another
just as I have loved you.
It is by your love for one another,
that everyone will recognise you
as my disciples.

 

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           Second Reading - Vigil of Pentecost

Romans 8: 22-27

   We are well aware that the whole creation, until this time, has been groaning in labour pains. And not only that: we too, who have the first–fruits of the Spirit, even we are groaning inside ourselves, waiting with eagerness for our bodies to be set free. In hope, we already have salvation; in hope, not visibly present, or we should not be hoping—nobody goes on hoping for something which is already visible. But having this hope for what we cannot yet see, we are able to wait for it with persevering confidence.
   And as well as this, the Spirit too comes to help us in our weakness, for, when we do not know how to pray properly, then the Spirit personally makes our petitions for us in groans that cannot be put into words; and he who can see into all hearts knows what the Spirit means because the prayers that the Spirit makes for God’s holy people are always in accordance with the mind of God.

 

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May 12, 2001 message continues

Messenger:    And so we struggle, we are a pilgrim Church,
                            we are in the state of becoming,
                            we are the sons and daughters of God.
                            We are learning to love God and
                             each other. We are the sons and daughters
                             of God.

                        Happy Mother's Day.

 

INDIA                                        April 25, 2001

Dear Rev. Father,

            Thank you very much for sending the 
Newsletter, the Video cassette and the C.D. I 
need not say how much we enjoyed reading and 
listening and watching the videos. It is very kind 
of you to continue the work of Fr. Carter.

            It was a real shock to hear of the demise of
Fr. Carter. His last words, his great effort to renew 
the spirit of priest and the religious, his conviction 
that these changes will really bring people and the 
world near to Jesus were all inspiring. Our prayer 
group offered mass for the repose of his soul.

            We are also in receipt of the appeal for
donation. You really need it. We cannot send money
from India. If there is any other way of helping your
cause, kindly let us know. We can offer mass for 
your intention.

            Please continue the work of Fr. Carter. We 
do always keep you in prayers. The second Newsletter
book may be sent, when they are ready.

                   With kind regards,
                                Yours Sincerely,
                                Fr. V. S.

SOUTH INDIA

Dear Reverend Father Editor,

            Thank you very much Father for sending
the books, newsletters, cassettes and other materials 
of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. They are very 
useful and we are happy to receive them. We have 
distributed the prayer manuals and newsletters to 
our seminary friends. They are also very happy to 
receive such a nice gift.

            May we take this opportunity to WISH YOU
ALL A VERY HAPPY EASTER. May the blessings
of Risen Lord be with you. May he always guide 
you in this wonderful ministry of helping priests.

            As token of our gratitude we would like to 
pray 10 Rosaries for the repose of the soul of Fr. 
Edward Carter S. J. and for the fruitful ministry 
of Shepherds of Christ.

            Kindly continue to send us the newsletter and
2 sets of the audio cassettes of the first 12 issues of
the newsletter. If it is not too much to ask you kindly
send us some prayer manuals, medals and rosaries.

            Thanking you once again for this valuable
newsletter.

                                We remain
                                Yours sincerely in the Lord
                                P. Joseph

From:    ____________
To:       Info@SofC.org
Sent:     Friday, May 11, 2001 12:44 AM
Subject: Thanks

Dear  and Rev. Fr Edward S.J.
Hullo!
I am writing these few lines of appreciation
and confirmation that I have received a number
of your publication (Newsletter) Shepherds Of
Christ. With these, I  have also received the
audio cassettes you sent me. All these facilities
will be a great appeal in spiritual formation
of our your priests (seminarians)
Please  Fr. You are of abundant help to us keep
supporting and encouraging us in numerous ways.

Yours In the Risen Lord.
Fr. James of St. Mary's School. 

 

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A Note From the President:

We have a video which can be played using the RealPlayer 8 Basic program. This program can be downloaded free of charge from the www.real.com website. Look for the section where free downloads are available and select the RealPlayer 8 Basic program. 

You do not need to stay at the computer while the RealPlayer 8 Basic program or our movie is downloading. The movie takes about 8 MB of disk space. Once you have the movie saved on your hard drive, you can play it over and over with no wait to interested friends or family members.

These photos were captured from the movie which can be downloaded. We started with video footage of Our Lady of Clearwater and video footage of Our Lady of Guadalupe. When I faded from Our Lady of Clearwater to Our Lady of Guadalupe in the video, I was startled and amazed to see how well the two images match up. I believe it is another sign that Our Lady is truly appearing to the children of the Earth on the Mary Image Building in Clearwater, Florida.

This Internet movie is a small sample of scenes from a real VHS video which was directed by our Lord and is available from Shepherds of Christ. Please contact us to obtain a copy of this video. We operate on donations.

click here to download "RealPlayer 8 Basic" for free
you need this to play the movie
please download this before the movie

 

click here to download the Mary's Image Movie

 

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

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

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

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. O Lady of Light, shining so bright, be with us this day, guiding our way, O Lady, O Lady of Light. 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. I appear to you as Our Mother of Sorrows.I appear to you as Our Mother of Sorrows.

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

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

A Rosary for Healing or for Someone with Cancer.

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

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

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

May the cancer be uprooted and thrown into the sea.

We believe with all our hearts.

After the Glory Be — pray the following petition.

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

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

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

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

To order your Rosary Book fill out this form and send your donation to Shepherds of Christ Ministries, PO Box 193, Morrow, Ohio 45152-0193, Telephone: (toll free) 1-888-211-3041 or (513) 932-4451.