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                May 15, 2014

             From the message
                 of Jesus given
                 during
                 May 13, 2014
                 Retreat in China, Indiana.
 

                Light and Growth

                May 13, 2014 Prayer Service

                R. For the believer and one who
                served God as he should
                death is the end of the
                flesh, but it can open
                a door to eternal life.

                May 13, 2014

                    The man who is dark inside
                doesn't follow God's plan –
                He follows his own ambitions,
                but the plan of the Father for
                salvation history – a plan of
                light – he opposes for his
                own plan!!

                Jesus served His Father –

                The priest is to serve the Heavenly Father –

                The person is to serve the Heavenly Father

                The Eucharist must be at the
                    center of our lives –

                The priest's life must center around
                    the Eucharist and the priest should be
                    in the mind and Heart of Jesus.

                Jesus: Is your life centered in Me –
                    Is your life centered in the Eucharist?

                    Do you listen to satan and fill yourself
                        with fear?

                    Is your mind and heart in
                        My mind and heart?

                The Eucharist must be treated with
                    such sacredness –

                There is to be such joy to do
                    adoration and
                    joy at Mass and
                    communal adoration is
                    so powerful

                Christ is our Spouse
                Christ is the Spouse of the Church!

                We are married to Christ –

                The priest must love the Church and
                    give generously –

                Peace is found in doing the will
                    of the Father –

                Thy will be done –

                Jesus is our friend –

                Jesus shows us His friendship
                    with the Apostles –

                Jesus is the Lamb of God –
                Jesus is the Lamb of God
                    who takes away the sins
                    of the world –

                Jesus was so close to John!

                Jesus took John in the Garden –
                Jesus took John on the Transfiguration –

                John rested his head on the
                    chest of Jesus at the
                    Last Supper –

                John was under the cross –
                John was close to Mary –
   

                R. There was gentle affection
                    between John and Mary.

                I discussed Blue Book IV
                    how Jesus spoke of His love for Mary
                    how Jesus spoke of Mary's love for Him
                    how Jesus loves us –
                    how Mary loves us –

                John saw the piercing of
                    the side of Jesus on
                    Calvary –

                Jesus' Heart suffered to the
                    bitter end.

                The Mystery of Christ's Heart –

                The Holy Spirit is the soul of the Church
                The Holy Spirit as sanctifier tries
                    to deepen the image of
                    Christ on the Christian
                    and on the Church.

                Intellectual pride is living
                    in the flesh and not
                    according to the Holy Spirit.

                The Holy Spirit wants us to grow as
                    sons and daughters of
                    the Father, in Christ –
       

Romans 8: 14-17

All who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God; for what you received was not the spirit of slavery to bring you back into fear; you received the Spirit of adoption, enabling us to cry out, 'Abba, Father!' The Spirit himself joins with our spirit to bear witness that we are children of God. And if we are children, then we are heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ, provided that we share his suffering, so as to share his glory.

                R. Not to follow man's ambitions plan –

                R. Come to me Lord and Possess my Soul

                There are to be graced communities
                    throughout the world as
                    we members of the mystical
                    body of Christ live His life,
                    death and resurrection in our lives.

                    Our life of grace is our
                life of resurrection –

                    Being more and more abundantly
                filled with God's life in us.

                Helping in the work of redemption.
                As we live the Father's will –
                we die to those things not like
                    Jesus and we rise to
                greater life in Him, in God!

                    We participate in His knowing
                and loving activity – we grow
                in the spiritual life – we
                prepare for our heavenly reward
                in the beatific vision.

                Fr. Carter says
                "The members of the mystical body of
                Christ, the Church, are called to
                re-live Christ's entire life centered
                in Death/Resurrection."

                We are called to live the mystery
                    of Christ in our lives!!

                How are we putting on Christ in
                    our vocation?

                Are we instruments of Christ's light?

                Do we have more and more the mind
                    and Heart of Jesus?

                Are we preparing for the beatific
                    vision?

                Are we building the Kingdom of God?

                Are we shrinking things God
                    gave us to lead souls to
                    Him with our selfish –
                    self-enclosure –
                    caved-in –
                    living in fear –
                    not loving God and the people
                    He called us to work with and
                    not loving those He sent us to
                    witness to?

                Each Christian is to live the
                    Mystery of Christ in his
                    vocation in their lives –
                    Put on Christ!
                    Be witnesses!
                    Follow Jesus the Good Shepherd!

                As we live out our vocation we
                    project Christ into the
                    world in our lives –

                This is our calling in life –
                We will be judged on how we loved.
                We are one in God –
                Do we love Jesus? We shout, YES, LORD!

                He says

                    Feed My Sheep

                He says

                    Feed My Lambs               

                Excerpts from May 13, 2014 writing

                    We are to work with others in our lives.
                Man does not go to God alone. We were
                created social beings. God in Salvation
                History communicated to man in
                a framework of community.

                    We pray united as one in the Mass.
                We come together as one. We are united
                as members of the mystical body of
                Christ to all the Masses going on around
                the world.

                    We unite in the Morning Offering to all
                the Masses going on around the world.

                    Here is a long Morning Offering Jesus
                gave me June 8, 1995 – 19 years ago –
 

My dear Father, I offer You this day all my prayers, works, joys and sufferings, my every breath, my every heartbeat, my every thought, all my actions, in union with Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world, in the Holy Spirit. I pray the Holy Spirit is with me every second today, enlightening me to do the will of the Father and filling me with the fire of God's love.

I ask Jesus and Mary to be one in me in all that I do and I unite with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory to pray continually to the Father for these intercessions, in this prayer, for this day.

For myself, I pray for grace-abundant grace, to know and love God more and more and to follow the will of the Father. I pray to the Holy Spirit to transform me in the heart of Mary to be more and more like Jesus. I pray that I can forever dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. I pray for conversion of all those I hold dear who need conversion. I pray for each member of my family that they will be filled with Your abundant grace to grow in their knowledge and love of God.

I pray for all my friends that they will receive abundant grace to carry out the great plan of the Father, that they will grow forever closer to Jesus' Heart through Mary's heart, that we will all be led by the Holy Spirit to do His work, that we will, together, carry out the plan of the Father as He intends us to, to spread the love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary's heart to this world.

Jesus, I pray for myself so the Holy Spirit descends upon me and opens my heart to Your love so I will grow more and more deeply in union with You. I pray that I do not worry what other people think but try always to please the Father and do His will. I pray that I may help lead many to Your burning love.

I pray for the following people in particular that they will be filled with the Spirit and grow deeply in their union with You, that they will receive abundant graces to know, love and serve You more. (Include special friends by name...)

I pray for priests the world over, for the success of the Priestly Newsletter, the Chapters and for the finances needed for the Newsletter. I pray for the circulation of the Blue Book messages, rosary meditations and tapes. I pray for all those involved in the publication of these messages.

I pray that You will shower Your abundant graces onto the priests reading the Newsletter the people reading and hearing the Blue Book messages and Rosary Meditations and all of Fr. Carter's publications.

We pray for the intentions we hold deep within our hearts, for our families and friends, for those requesting our prayers. We pray for children the world over and for the souls in purgatory. We ask God to shower His abundant grace on us and the members of our Shepherds of Christ chapter so that we may grow more and more in our knowledge and love of God.

We consecrate ourselves to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. We pray for Father Carter, for Father Smith, for Rita Ring, and for John Weickert, for all leaders and helpers in the Shepherds of Christ Movement, for Shepherds of Christ Ministries, and Our Lady of Light Ministry. We pray for all those who are working in these ministries.

We bind ourselves and our children and our friends to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. We place the precious blood of Jesus on ourselves, and all we touch, so that we will be protected from the evil one. We pray to St. Michael to cast the devil into hell.

We love You, God, we love You, we love You. We beg that we may receive the grace to love You more and more deeply. We adore You, we praise You, our beloved Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
 

                R. Here is a very short Morning Offering.
 

                R. We like to send to Nursing Homes in
                    big print the Say Daily Card
                    to put by their bed –

                Unity – Unity – Unity

                The Church is

                    One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic –

                We are united at Mass –

                We respond individually to God at Mass.

                We as members of the mystical body of
                    Christ, the Church, are members
                    of a religious community –
                    the People of God –

                "Through Baptism the Christian becomes
                    incorporated into Christ and His Church"

                Davis, Sacraments of Initiation  pp. 30-83

                "Confirmation perfects this incorporation"

                Ibid, p. 127

                Fr. Carter says:

                "Through these two Sacraments the image
                    of Christ is indelibly imprinted upon
                    the soul. The task of the Christian is to
                    grow in this likeness of Christ more
                    and more through the development
                    of the life of sanctifying grace, the
                    Christ-life."

                Baptism primarily initiates us into Christ's
                    Paschal Mystery, His Death and Resurrection.

                St. Paul tells us:

Romans 6: 3-5

You cannot have forgotten that all of us, when we were baptised into Christ Jesus, were baptised into his death. So by our baptism into his death we were buried with him, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father’s glorious power, we too should begin living a new life.

                R. Baptism incorporates us into Christ's
                Death and Resurrection and it unites
                us with Christ in all His mysteries.

                R. Here are the Mass Books Jesus gave me for
                    the Church and the world.

                R. Christ enlists our help in the work of
                    redemption.
 

                R. We are called to help souls to
                    get to heaven.

 

Excerpt from Response in Christ by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

e) Relationship with Members of the Church

There is but one true Church of Christ. Yet this one Church has three different states of existence. There is the pilgrim Church, the Church of this world, composed of members who have received the grace of Christ and strive for its development. They have not yet obtained the goal of their efforts, as have the members of the heavenly Church, who enjoy God in eternal happiness. The Church suffering is an intermediate state of existence necessary for those who had not achieved the required purification as members of the pilgrim Church. Although there are these three phases of the Church’s existence, there is a profound union existing between all the members. All these members possess the same basic life of grace in Christ, and this common life establishes the most intimate bonds of love. In our preceding chapter, we discussed the pilgrim Church. Let us now consider the Church suffering and the heavenly Church.

The members of the Church suffering are those who have departed from this life in an incomplete state of Christian development. Their development is incomplete in the sense that grace has not fully taken possession of them, and, as a result, they are yet closed in upon themselves to a greater or lesser degree. They as yet cannot open themselves out in complete love to the Triune God in the beatific vision. They must undergo a further purification, a purification which could have been achieved upon earth with merit. Now the purification must be achieved with no merit attached. The pain of this purification is mixed with the certain expectation of achieving the vision of God. We can hasten the advent of this vision for this people by the offering of prayers and other good works. Scripture itself refers to our action on behalf of those in purgatory in Chapter 12 of the Second Book of Maccabees beginning with verse 38.

The members of the heavenly Church are those in whom the life of grace has taken full possession and has reached its completion in the life of glory. Faith now is unnecessary, as the light of glory gives the human intellect a new strength and capacity for seeing God face-to-face. While the Christian was a wayfarer, he received the imprint of the indwelling Trinity as he shared in God’s own life. Now in heaven that grace-life and possession of God reaches its completion—the absolute completion is not achieved, however, until the resurrection of the body. The divine persons give Themselves to the beatified in a profound union far surpassing that of the indwelling of the Trinity experienced here below.

This life of heaven is still the Christ-life, for just as we possess a share in Trinitarian life here below as mediated by Christ, and exercise this grace-life as structured by Him, so also in heaven is the mediation of Christ present. In the words of Rahner, "One always sees the Father through Jesus. Just as immediately as this, for the directness of the vision of God is not a denial of the mediatorship of Christ as man."¹⁴ And not only does the humanity of Christ unite the blessed to God, but also, in some way, to the whole of creation. This is merely a completion of what is begun here below, namely, the union with Christ in His humanity establishing the Christian in a special relationship with God, with other men, and with the whole of creation. We have a glimpse, therefore, of the fullness of life which members of the heavenly Church possess.

The heavenly Church, as St. Thomas says, is the true Church.¹⁵ The Church of this earth and the Church of purgatory are, each in its own way, reaching out in loving hope for the heavenly Jerusalem. Vatican II puts it very simply: "The Church, to which we are called in Christ Jesus, and in which we acquire sanctity through the grace of God, will attain her full perfection only in the glory of heaven."¹⁶

The members of the heavenly Church can help us in living our life of grace until we too share its fullness with them. Their power of intercession on our behalf is but another ramification of the communal aspect of Christianity. We are meant to help others grow in Christ. We, in turn, are intended by God to receive aid from others—yes, from members of the heavenly Church, as well as from those with whom we dwell here below.

Not only can we be aided by the saints’ intercession, but the example of the canonized saints can also be of great value to us. They have concretely proved that full holiness is possible. Such an inspiration is of real worth when we are tempted to think that Christian sanctity in its higher degrees is impossible of attainment. Moreover, the canonized saints, in their diversity, teach us that there are many authentic versions of Christian holiness. They can be innovators in showing us that there are numerous possibilities in assimilating the mystery of Christ, although the basic assimilation remains the same for all Christians of all times. In the opinion of Rahner this is one of the chief roles the canonized saints exert in the life of the Church.¹⁷

 

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NOTES:

 ¹⁴Karl Rahner, Theological Investigations, Vol. III (Baltimore: Helicon, 1967), p. 44.
 ¹⁵ Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, In Ad Ephes., c. 3, Lect. 3.
 ¹⁶Second Vatican Council, Constitution on the Church, No. 48.
 ¹⁷Cf. Karl Rahner, Op. cit., pp. 100-101.

                Excerpt from May 13, 2014

                R. Likewise, we know God knows the depth of our
                hearts, our motives, everything about us –
                we offend God when we are hateful toward him,
                our brother (God loves and made) and hateful
                in our heart, greedy, jealous, envious,
                prideful, when God is so good to us and is
                watching us and made us in His image and likeness,
                for a purpose to know, love and serve Him and
                we independently rebel against God and are
                listening to satan, the father of lies.

                    It gives Christ great joy to see us walk
                in His footsteps, to be truthful and loving
                toward Him and our brothers and

                    we can offend the Heart of Jesus and
                Mary when we hate and are vicious and
                violent and lie –

                    God wants a relationship with man. Like
                any relationship – we are to love and be
                trustworthy. What about God giving us each
                other to love and somebody lives to stand on
                top of the other's head in jealousy and
                envy and just trying to get over them and
                push them down – a constant argument with
                the person – when God gave both of us as
                gifts to accomplish a powerful work for
                building His Kingdom and helping souls and
                what is happening that a man doesn't see
                through God's eyes at all, but sees that the
                other person should be put down, challenged,
                fought with so they can win over – and
                be over them – rebelling to God's Plan of why
                He created them to bring peace and love and
                joy to others – to show honor to Himself
                because of their creaturehood and obedience
                and love –
                and instead a person doesn't want anybody
                over them so they fight like two men in a
                ring to get the other down and then stand
                up themselves as a winner –
                What winner is that when satan runs the
                show because someone rebels against
                God's Plan for selfish combatal pride –
                wanting their will, over God's will at
                all cost.

                Yes God has a Plan – He created us uniquely
                to serve and love Him, as He desires, as He
                deserves. He enlists our help in the work
                of redemption. He gives the baptized soul a
                sharing in His life. Through baptism we
                become incorporated into Christ and His
                Church and Confirmation perfects this
                incorporation.

                    And the willful, rebellious man who
                sees not through the eyes of Our Heavenly
                Father – living by His will – makes a
                rival out of his brothers, a boxing match
                because his brother is in authority over
                him.

                    Good, as God intends, is not accomplished
                when a man gives into his pride and jealousies
                and envies and greed. It is like Eve in the Garden – 

                R. The man who is jealous and combatal is busy
                not for helping souls, but standing on the
                head of the one over them in a boxing ring.
                It is a deficiency on their part to not see
                the Plan of the Creator and have a wide vision
                of how beautiful we all are in God's design
                and satan wants to manipulate through
                power and control to make disorder, and
                fighting and threatening life giving needs
                people have as power tools to force their
                battles, not on a playground, battles
                that tear at life, that tear people trying
                to do God's will, down.

                    Can you see satan, instigating his
                disorder – like the disorder in the Garden –
                Satan hates order, it is because of the sin
                of Adam and Eve disorder entered the world.
                The once orderly world God created was
                disrupted by the sin of Adam and Eve.
                The disorder in the elements, the disorder
                in the world because of Adam and Eve sinning –
                the harmony God gave them, was now disharmony,
                as they acted against God, for their own
                independence and pride.

                    So in life – God gives us a Plan – and
                we remember how satan was in the
                reading the first Sunday of Lent –
                he just wanted Jesus under him –
                he wanted Jesus to bow to him –

                So we see a Plan of God – to bring so many
                gifts to the world, help souls to get to
                heaven, bring gifts and we see one
                so jealous, prideful

                    stand on the head of the one God
                called in combat – wasting all the
                energy and time while the person just
                wants to raise up in disorder over
                just authority – to do what they want –
                put themselves first over God's will –

                    Remember Joseph's brothers – they hated
                Joseph because God chose Joseph –
                Remember Cain and Abel? Abel was murdered
                by Cain –

                Things were out of control so much at the
                    time of Noah –

                    God had Noah build an Ark and
                All that survived the great flood was Noah and
                his family and the animals on the Ark.

                    Remember Jesus' enemies put Him to death!

                    When God calls us we can say – I followed Your
                will God, I did Your Plan for me – I used the
                gifts You gave me as You wanted and I brought
                You these people I loved and trained and
                these, I built up to build Your
                Kingdom for Your honor and glory –
                OR we can say – I fought to be on top –
                I wanted it my way, I used your things
                You gave me to rebel against Your own
                plan and then when I had my whole life
                to love, I was selfish, trying to be
                first and I stood on top of those over
                me like in a boxing ring and used my
                time and energy for the sport, I made
                my life's work.

                Jesus: And you did not serve Me. You wasted
                    My beautiful gifts to you and rebelled
                    like your ancestors and I called you
                    to help renew the earth – to reach
                    out to men and to build up My Kingdom
                    in love and peace and harmony.

                I have called 8 days of prayer at both centers
                    a month.

                I have called for these Ministries to be spread,
                    the Blue Books spread, the Prayer Chapters
                    spread.

                Do you remember the holocaust?

                Mary appeared at Fatima to warn them –
 

                        end of excerpt 

                Jesus: In August they interfered with the Blessed
                    Mother's Apparition by jailing the
                    children – !!

                Do you see the murder of the innocent babies
                    in abortion –
                    the homosexuality –

                I am God –

                I have a Plan –

                I have given the Shepherds of Christ Movement
                    to help in the renewal of the Church and
                    the world –
                    while spreading My books –
                    while spreading My Shepherds of Christ Prayers –
                    while spreading the Priestly Writing –
                    while spreading the School Rosary Program –
                    while spreading the Nursing Home Ministries –
                    while spreading the Morning Offering,
                        Holy Spirit Novena and other prayers.

                I give you life - to live as God wants you
                    to live according to His Plan –

                You can hold out in rebellion to force
                    your evil ways that tear at
                    the Plan.

                I give you the sign of the Rainbow –
                Mary appeared in Rainbow color –
                I sent the rainbow as a sign –

  Genesis 9: 11-17

And I shall maintain my covenant with you: that never again shall all living things be destroyed by the waters of a flood, nor shall there ever again be a flood to devastate the earth.’ 

    ‘And this’, God said, ‘is the sign of the covenant which I now make between myself and you and every living creature with you for all ages to come: I now set my bow in the clouds and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I gather the clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds, I shall recall the covenant between myself and you and every living creature, in a word all living things, and never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all living things. When the bow is in the clouds I shall see it and call to mind the eternal covenant between God and every living creature on earth, that is, all living things.’ 

    ‘That’, God told Noah, ‘is the sign of the covenant I have established between myself and all living things on earth.’

                Jesus: Remember the Tower of Babel – they
                    were willful – they thought they would
                    reach the sky –

                Abraham was faithful to My Plan and I
                    put him over many nations –
                    he was obedient – ready to
                    sacrifice his son, Isaac, because I
                    put him to the test – . . .

                Excerpt from May 13, 2014

                Jesus: Devastation, Destruction, Death at
                    the hands of men serving satan for
                    their own pride and glory –
                    men did what they did killing people!!

                Joseph was called by Me and his brothers
                    tried to kill Joseph –

                Moses was a shepherd and he led the
                    flock – they rebelled against
                    Moses and made a golden calf!

                Salvation History –

                    Rebellion and Prophets who suffered
                    by the men who rebelled against God!

                Do you not see the rebellion today and
                    God the Father sent
                    the Lady of Clearwater to tell you

                Don't stand on My Head!

                You foolish men

                Listen and be taught –

                Help spread this Movement – now
                    throughout the world –

October 5, 2003

November 5, 2003

December 5, 2003

January 5, 2004

                Jesus: David was a great leader –
                David was a shepherd
                David led the flock –
                    but David was not perfect –

                Solomon was given the gift of wisdom –
 

                    From the Introduction of Blue Book 12

R. I listened to the readings yesterday about Solomon. His life became very complicated because he made bad choices and he bankrupted the country. He was given a great gift of wisdom, like never given to any man, but his lust and greed and building temples to false gods got the best of him. From being so richly favored and blessed by God he turned to so many bad things that hurt relationships for sure.

God gave us the 10 commandments.

The first 3 tell us about relationship with God.

The rest about relationship with each other.

We have been given a sharing in God’s life in baptism. Our knowing and loving capacity is elevated in baptism.

We can pray for an increase of the virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love.

Remember as a child we would make acts of Faith, Hope, and Love. We knew these by heart.

                        end of excerpt

                Jesus: The King listened to the false prophet
                    and they persecuted Jeremiah and
                    there was the Babylonian Exile –
   

                Mary: And listen – do not give
                    into satan fighting the Plan
                    God is giving because of pride and
                    jealousy and envy –

    1. For the spread of the devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary culminating in the reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of the Immaculate Heart.
    2. For the Pope.
    3. For all bishops of the world.
    4. For all priests.
    5. For all sisters and brothers in the religious life.
    6. For all members of the Shepherds of Christ Movement, and for the spread of this movement to the world.
    7. For all members of the Catholic Church.
    8. For all members of the human family.
    9. For all souls in purgatory.

end of Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart message

 

                From Blue Book 13 

                From Blue Book 14 

                May 13, 2014 continues

                Mary: On this day
                    May 13, 2014
                    My Son Jesus gives you these
                        messages –

                God the Father has sent these
                    messages to you to warn
                    the faithful of satan's evil plan and
                    to tell you what to do to
                    avert any future destruction
                    at the hands of the evil one –

                I am Mary your Mother –

                Listen and don't fight me –

                I have appeared for 20 years
                    delivering these messages

                Please my children –
                    listen to me

                Help me do as God the Father
                    asks – Obey Him and
                    listen.

                I am Mary your Mother May 13, 2014.

                Given May 14, 2014
 

                R. Christ was a witness to the Father,
                a perfect manifestation of the Father's
                truth and love.

                    Our whole life should be a
                witness to Christ.

                    We are to re-live Christ's life
                centered in death/resurrection –

                    Conforming ourselves to the
                Father's will – meditating in the
                rosary of the life of Christ –
                we become rooted deeply
                in how Christ lived –

                R. We live out the mystery of Christ
                in our lives in our vocation. The incarnation
                goes on in us as we try to be as the
                Father wants us to be. We go to
                the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Holy
                Spirit forms us more and more in the image
                of Jesus.

               
                R. Jesus has given us the Shepherds of Christ Prayers
 

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                    R. the prayers of consecration to Jesus and Mary.

                We give ourselves in consecration
                    to Jesus and Mary –

                We pray the rosary every day –
                    through the day –

                From the beginning when Mary
                    appeared –
                    she gave me the rosary –

                From her beginning apparitions
                    she came at the end of
                    the rosary –

                    We are to live out the Mystery of Christ,
                project Christ into the world
                in our vocation.

                    The Father has a Plan for us –

                    We live in deep unity with
                Christ in our lives. Putting on
                Christ – living the Christ-life
                in the Holy Spirit.

                    We are unique members
                of the body of Christ – each
                of us called in our vocation
                to serve Him, to serve our
                beloved Head!

                    I see Mary's image head was
                broken – I see John the Baptist's
                head was cut off –

                    I see Jesus spoke yesterday
                of the prideful man standing
                on the head of his brother and wanting
                to push him down and

                    Then the reference to the Gospel
                the first Sunday of Lent –

                    Satan wanted Jesus to bow
                to him –
   

Matthew 4: 1-11

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit out into the desert to be put to the test by the devil. He fasted for forty days and forty nights, after which he was hungry, and the tester came and said to him, ‘If you are Son of God, tell these stones to turn into loaves.’ But he replied, ‘Scripture says: 

    Human beings live not on bread alone 
    but on every word 
        that comes from the mouth of God.’ 

The devil then took him to the holy city and set him on the parapet of the Temple. ‘If you are Son of God,’ he said, ‘throw yourself down; for scripture says: 

    He has given his angels orders about you, 
    and they will carry you in their arms 
    in case you trip over a stone.’ 

Jesus said to him, ‘Scripture also says: 

    Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’ 

Next, taking him to a very high mountain, the devil showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendour. And he said to him, ‘I will give you all these, if you fall at my feet and do me homage.’ Then Jesus replied, ‘Away with you, Satan! For scripture says: 

    The Lord your God is the one 
        to whom you must do homage, 
    him alone you must serve.’ 

Then the devil left him, and suddenly angels appeared and looked after him.

                R. This is how satan works – he wants
                to rule-over – to discredit the authority –
                to make them look bad and then
                the man under shows he is the
                right one to listen to.

                    Satan wants power – he wants
                the person to give away their power
                to them – Satan wants to disrupt
                the structure, so he can jeopardize
                the structure –

                    God operates in structure –
                Jesus is the head of the mystical
                body –

                    We are all unique members under
                Jesus our head.

                    We are to live our vocation
                under God.

                From This Retreat –

                May 1, 2014 - Feast of St. Joseph the Worker

                R. With regard to the way the world is we need to pray.
                Jesus told Fr. Carter we needed to pray for the priests, the
                Church and the world.

                    I have learned over 20 years, more and more, how
                really powerful the Shepherds of Christ Prayers are. Praying
                them is a vocation for us being called to do so.

                    I see the hunger and the suffering in the world and
                I know the Pope is Vicar and is to see with a wide
                vision – men suffering because of other men who do
                not respect the dignity of others. The 10 commandments
                are the law God gave to Moses, the first 3 telling us
                about our love and respect of God, the last 7 our
                love and respect of others.

                The world has turned into so many laws, you are afraid
                to not turn in the right thing and miss some law,
                laws for taxes, laws for borrowing money, laws for
                health insurance, laws for not having insurance,
                laws, laws, laws –

                But what regard are we having for God's Laws in the
                10 Commandments – how we know, love and serve
                God and how we treat our neighbors with love and
                dignity.

                    God intends us to be more and more in His image and
                likeness.
 

Genesis 1: 26-27

God said, ‘Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild animals and all the creatures that creep along the ground.’

God created man in the image of himself,
    in the image of God he created him,
    male and female he created them.

 

                R. God is love and we do not even comprehend love to
                understand how God is so good to us and He
                loves us so much, that He loved us into existence and
                He loves us, even when we offend Him as we do –
                Do we reach to understand God and what it means
                to grow in the spiritual life and be more and more
                in this image and likeness of God –

                God is perfect love, God is pure love, God is all
                good –

                How can men give into such things as persecuting
                their brothers and out of jealousy hating men
                for their gain – or envy – bringing others down
                so we look better, we can think with wrong reasoning –

                We have tendencies toward the deadly sins because
                of our wounded human nature.

                Baptism is such a gift because God gives to
                us a sharing in His life in baptism and He feeds this
                life with Himself in the Eucharist.

                    In the chapter of John's Gospel 6: 1 it begins
                with us understanding that food was necessary
                to feed the physical life of the people and then
                it goes into the Bread of Life discourse, so we
                can see how the Eucharist feeds our supernatural
                life.

                    God is so good to us – to give us a sharing in His life
                in baptism and to nourish this life with Himself.
                God is so good to us to create us in love, in His
                image and likeness and

                    We have an elevated capacity through baptism
                to know and love God more. He gives us a
                share in His knowing and loving activity.

                    We who have been given the old catechism
                explanation

                    We were created to know, love and serve
                God.

                    This is what heaven is all about –
                    knowing God, loving God –

                    We have the 3 stages of the Church
                    Fr. Carter talks about.

       

Excerpt from Response in Christ by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

e) Relationship with Members of the Church

There is but one true Church of Christ. Yet this one Church has three different states of existence. There is the pilgrim Church, the Church of this world, composed of members who have received the grace of Christ and strive for its development. They have not yet obtained the goal of their efforts, as have the members of the heavenly Church, who enjoy God in eternal happiness. The Church suffering is an intermediate state of existence necessary for those who had not achieved the required purification as members of the pilgrim Church. Although there are these three phases of the Church’s existence, there is a profound union existing between all the members. All these members possess the same basic life of grace in Christ, and this common life establishes the most intimate bonds of love. In our preceding chapter, we discussed the pilgrim Church. Let us now consider the Church suffering and the heavenly Church.

The members of the Church suffering are those who have departed from this life in an incomplete state of Christian development. Their development is incomplete in the sense that grace has not fully taken possession of them, and, as a result, they are yet closed in upon themselves to a greater or lesser degree. They as yet cannot open themselves out in complete love to the Triune God in the beatific vision. They must undergo a further purification, a purification which could have been achieved upon earth with merit. Now the purification must be achieved with no merit attached. The pain of this purification is mixed with the certain expectation of achieving the vision of God. We can hasten the advent of this vision for this people by the offering of prayers and other good works. Scripture itself refers to our action on behalf of those in purgatory in Chapter 12 of the Second Book of Maccabees beginning with verse 38.

The members of the heavenly Church are those in whom the life of grace has taken full possession and has reached its completion in the life of glory. Faith now is unnecessary, as the light of glory gives the human intellect a new strength and capacity for seeing God face-to-face. While the Christian was a wayfarer, he received the imprint of the indwelling Trinity as he shared in God’s own life. Now in heaven that grace-life and possession of God reaches its completion—the absolute completion is not achieved, however, until the resurrection of the body. The divine persons give Themselves to the beatified in a profound union far surpassing that of the indwelling of the Trinity experienced here below.

This life of heaven is still the Christ-life, for just as we possess a share in Trinitarian life here below as mediated by Christ, and exercise this grace-life as structured by Him, so also in heaven is the mediation of Christ present. In the words of Rahner, "One always sees the Father through Jesus. Just as immediately as this, for the directness of the vision of God is not a denial of the mediatorship of Christ as man."¹⁴ And not only does the humanity of Christ unite the blessed to God, but also, in some way, to the whole of creation. This is merely a completion of what is begun here below, namely, the union with Christ in His humanity establishing the Christian in a special relationship with God, with other men, and with the whole of creation. We have a glimpse, therefore, of the fullness of life which members of the heavenly Church possess.

The heavenly Church, as St. Thomas says, is the true Church.¹⁵ The Church of this earth and the Church of purgatory are, each in its own way, reaching out in loving hope for the heavenly Jerusalem. Vatican II puts it very simply: "The Church, to which we are called in Christ Jesus, and in which we acquire sanctity through the grace of God, will attain her full perfection only in the glory of heaven."¹⁶

The members of the heavenly Church can help us in living our life of grace until we too share its fullness with them. Their power of intercession on our behalf is but another ramification of the communal aspect of Christianity. We are meant to help others grow in Christ. We, in turn, are intended by God to receive aid from others—yes, from members of the heavenly Church, as well as from those with whom we dwell here below.

Not only can we be aided by the saints’ intercession, but the example of the canonized saints can also be of great value to us. They have concretely proved that full holiness is possible. Such an inspiration is of real worth when we are tempted to think that Christian sanctity in its higher degrees is impossible of attainment. Moreover, the canonized saints, in their diversity, teach us that there are many authentic versions of Christian holiness. They can be innovators in showing us that there are numerous possibilities in assimilating the mystery of Christ, although the basic assimilation remains the same for all Christians of all times. In the opinion of Rahner this is one of the chief roles the canonized saints exert in the life of the Church.¹⁷

 

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NOTES:

 ¹⁴Karl Rahner, Theological Investigations, Vol. III (Baltimore: Helicon, 1967), p. 44.
 ¹⁵ Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, In Ad Ephes., c. 3, Lect. 3.
 ¹⁶Second Vatican Council, Constitution on the Church, No. 48.
 ¹⁷Cf. Karl Rahner, Op. cit., pp. 100-101.

  

                R. In all of the prayers, Holy Spirit Novena, Morning Offering
                etc. – I see how God has asked us to pray –
                To the Father, in the name of Jesus, united to the Mass,
                in the Holy Spirit, through the powerful intercession
                of Mary, with all the angels and saints and the
                souls in purgatory – united together with
                each other here on earth, dwelling in the
                Hearts of Jesus and Mary –

                Wow!!

                    God is teaching us in all these revelations
                to know, love and serve Him and He wants to
                outpour His grace to us – We must listen
                to be taught as disciples of Jesus –
                Reach beyond what is natural –
                Beg God to fill us more and more abundantly
                with His life so we can see more and more
                through His eyes –

                Clearer vision –

                Living to be more and more as the Father
                    wants us to be –

                Praying for that increase in faith, hope
                    and love –

                    Being that little child of God the Father and
                helping to bring His Kingdom on earth
                more and more –

                    Seeing ourselves united in the Father's
                family – loving one another – all our
                brothers. Jesus died for all. God wants
                all men to be saved.
 

Excerpt from Priestly Newsletter January/February 1997

Thoughts on the Eucharist

Our personal relationship with Christ is characterized by the realization of the great, personal love of His Heart for each of us and of our need to love Him in return. The chief source for growth in the personal relationship with Jesus is the Eucharist. The Catechism tells us: "The Eucharist is 'the source and summit of the Christian life.' The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and work of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole good of the Church, namely Christ himself, Our Pasch."⁵

5. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 1324.
 

                R. The Mass is the sacrifice of Calvary, sacramentally
                made present –

                As members of the mystical body we are
                united to all the Masses going on around
                the world.

                Wow – to see ourselves united to these Masses,
                to live the Pascal mystery of death/
                resurrection.

                To see Jesus' love for all men and He sacrificed
                Himself in lavishing love for us.

                Love is sacrifice – Love is suffering and
                joy.

                Love is being united in our hearts in doing
                God's will for us in love –

                Love is consecration to the Hearts of
                Jesus and Mary.

                Do you remember the song
                Let There Be Peace on Earth

                This is a Song to Sing.

                And Holy God we Praise Thy Name

                And the Song from Jesus

                And I Love You Jesus

                And here is the Holy Spirit Novena

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Fr. Carter had a dream.

   

20 Years Ago

July 31, 1994

Words of Jesus to Members of
Shepherds of Christ Associates:

"My beloved priest-companion, I intend to use the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the movement, Shepherds of Christ Associates, in a powerful way for the renewal of My Church and the world.

"I will use the newsletter and the chapters of Shepherds of Christ Associates as a powerful instrument for spreading devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart.

"I am calling many to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. To all of them I will give great blessings. I will use them as instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy Spirit."

- Message from Jesus to Father Edward J. Carter, S.J., Founder, as given on July 31, 1994,
feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)

   

                R. 20 years ago Fr. Carter was told to write
                    the Newsletter.
   

Holy Spirit Novena

Daily Novena Prayers

Opening Prayer

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Dear Father, we come to You in the name of Jesus, in union with Him in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, in the Holy Spirit. We come to You united to the Child Jesus of Good Health and the Infant of Prague. We come to You in the perfect, sinless heart of Our Mother Mary, asking her powerful intercession, uniting ourselves to her holy tears. We come to You united to all the angels and saints, and the souls in purgatory.

Prayer for Holy Spirit

We pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on us, to be baptized by the Holy Spirit, that He will descend mightily on us as He did on the Apostles at Pentecost. That the Holy Spirit will transform us from fear to fearlessness and that He will give us courage to do all the Father is asking of us to help bring about the Reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart. We pray for the Holy Spirit to descend mightily on the Jesuits and the Poor Clares on the Shepherds of Christ leaders and members and on the whole Body of Christ and the world.

Protection by the Blood of Jesus

We pray that the Blood of Jesus will be spread on us, everyone in our families, and the Shepherds of Christ Movement, that we will be able to move steadfastly ahead and be protected from the evil one.

Healing

We pray for healing in body, mind, and soul and generational healing in ourselves, in all members in our families, and in all members of the Shepherds of Christ Movement, the Jesuit Community, the Poor Clares, the Body of Christ, and the world.

Prayer for Strength and Light

We adore You, oh Holy Spirit. Give us strength, give us light, console us. We give ourselves entirely to You. Oh Spirit of light and grace, we want to only do the will of the Father. Enlighten us that we may live always in the Father's will.

Eternal Spirit fill us with Your Divine Wisdom that we may comprehend more fully insight into Your Divine Mysteries.

Give us lights, Oh Holy Spirit that we may know God. Work within the heart, the spiritual womb of the Virgin Mary, to form us more and more into the image of Jesus.

Prayer to Be One with God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit

We long for You, Oh Spirit of Light, we long to know God, we want to be one with Him, our Divine God. We want to be one with the Father, know Him as a Person most intimately. We want to know the beloved One, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and live and dwell in Him at all times, every moment of our lives. We want to be one with You, Oh Spirit of Light, that You move in us in our every breath.

Prayer to Be One in Jesus

Let us experience life in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, so we can say as Saint Paul, "I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me...." Let us live, united to the Mass, all through the day being one in Him. Let us be able to love and know in this elevated state of oneness with our God. We long for Thee, oh beauteous God, we love You, we love You, we love You. We praise You, worship You, honor You, adore You, and thank You, our beloved God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Prayer to Dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary

We seek to be one in God, to live and dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, our little heaven on earth, to experience life in the all perfect, pure, sinless heart of our Mother. We want the Holy Spirit to move in us and to be united to Jesus as the Bridegroom of our souls and be a most perfect sacrifice offered to the Father at every moment as we unite in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass around the world to help in the salvation of souls.

Prayer for the Holy Spirit and His Gifts

Come Holy Spirit, come, come into our hearts, inflame all people with the fire of Your love.

Leader: Send forth Your Spirit and all will be reborn.
All:  And You will renew the face of the earth.

We pray for the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, we ask for perfection in our souls to make us holy, holy souls likened to God.

Dear Holy Spirit, we give ourselves to You soul and body. We ask You to give us the Spirit of Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, and Fear of the Lord.

Prayer for the Word Alive in Our Hearts

We know, dear Holy Spirit, the Word in His human nature was brought forth within the womb of the woman. We pray that His word will be brought forth in our hearts as He lives and dwells in us. We want the incarnation to go on in our lives. Dear Holy Spirit, work in us.

Little Prayers to the Holy Spirit

Dear Holy Spirit, help us not to be ignorant or indifferent or weak, help us to be strong with the love of God.

Dear Holy Spirit, please pray for our needs for us.

Dear Holy Spirit, help us to respect God and to avoid sin. Help us to live in the Father's will.

Dear Holy Spirit, help us to keep Your commandments and to respect authority. Help us to love all things as You will us to love them. Help us to want to pray and always serve God with the greatest love. Help us to know the truth. Help us to have the gift of faith, hope, and love. Help us to know what is right and what is wrong.

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.

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First Period
Meditations Nine Days

1. Romans 8:14-17
   
   All who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God; for what you received was not the spirit of slavery to bring you back into fear; you received the Spirit of adoption, enabling us to cry out, 'Abba, Father!' The Spirit himself joins with our spirit to bear witness that we are children of God. And if we are children, then we are heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ, provided that we share his suffering, so as to share his glory.

2. Romans 8:5-9
   
   Those who are living by their natural inclinations have their minds on the things human nature desires; those who live in the Spirit have their minds on spiritual things. And human nature has nothing to look forward to but death, while the Spirit looks forward to life and peace, because the outlook of disordered human nature is opposed to God, since it does not submit to God's Law, and indeed it cannot, and those who live by their natural inclinations can never be pleasing to God. You, however, live not by your natural inclinations, but by the Spirit, since the Spirit of God has made a home in you. Indeed, anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

3. 1 John 4:12-16
   
   No one has ever seen God, but as long as we love one another God remains in us and his love comes to its perfection in us. This is the proof that we remain in him and he in us, that he has given us a share in his Spirit. We ourselves have seen and testify that the Father sent his Son as Saviour of the world. Anyone who acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him and he in God. We have recognised for ourselves, and put our faith in, the love God has for us. God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him.

4. 1 John 4:17-21
   
   Love comes to its perfection in us when we can face the Day of Judgement fearlessly, because even in this world we have become as he is. In love there is no room for fear, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear implies punishment and no one who is afraid has come to perfection in love. Let us love, then, because he first loved us. Anyone who says 'I love God' and hates his brother, is a liar, since whoever does not love the brother whom he can see cannot love God whom he has not seen. Indeed this is the commandment we have received from him, that whoever loves God, must also love his brother.

5. 1 John 4:7-11
   
   My dear friends, let us love one another, since love is from God and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. Whoever fails to love does not know God, because God is love. This is the revelation of God's love for us, that God sent his only Son into the world that we might have life through him. Love consists in this: it is not we who loved God, but God loved us and sent his Son to expiate our sins. My dear friends, if God loved us so much, we too should love one another.

6. Acts of the Apostles 1:1-5
   
   In my earlier work, Theophilus, I dealt with everything Jesus had done and taught from the beginning until the day he gave his instructions to the apostles he had chosen through the Holy Spirit, and was taken up to heaven. He had shown himself alive to them after his Passion by many demonstrations: for forty days he had continued to appear to them and tell them about the kingdom of God. While at table with them, he had told them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for what the Father had promised. 'It is', he had said, 'what you have heard me speak about: John baptised with water but, not many days from now, you are going to be baptised with the Holy Spirit.'

7. Acts of the Apostles 1:6-9
   
   Now having met together, they asked him, 'Lord, has the time come for you to restore the kingdom to Israel?' He replied, 'It is not for you to know times or dates that the Father has decided by his own authority, but you will receive the power of the Holy Spirit which will come on you, and then you will be my witnesses not only in Jerusalem but throughout Judaea and Samaria, and indeed to earth's remotest end.'
   
   As he said this he was lifted up while they looked on, and a cloud took him from their sight.

8. Acts of the Apostles 1:12-14
   
   So from the Mount of Olives, as it is called, they went back to Jerusalem, a short distance away, no more than a Sabbath walk; and when they reached the city they went to the upper room where they were staying; there were Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Jude son of James. With one heart all these joined constantly in prayer, together with some women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
   

9. Acts of the Apostles 2:1-4
   
   When Pentecost day came round, they had all met together, when suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of a violent wind which filled the entire house in which they were sitting; and there appeared to them tongues as of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak different languages as the Spirit gave them power to express themselves.

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Second Period
Meditations Nine Days

1. John 14:21-31
   
   Whoever holds to my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me; and whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I shall love him and reveal myself to him.'
   
   Judas-not Judas Iscariot-said to him, 'Lord, what has happened, that you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?' Jesus replied:
   
   Anyone who loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him and make a home in him. Anyone who does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not my own: it is the word of the Father who sent me. I have said these things to you while still with you; but the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and remind you of all I have said to you. Peace I bequeath to you, my own peace I give you, a peace which the world cannot give, this is my gift to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid. You heard me say: I am going away and shall return. If you loved me you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. I have told you this now, before it happens, so that when it does happen you may believe. I shall not talk to you much longer, because the prince of this world is on his way. He has no power over me, but the world must recognise that I love the Father and that I act just as the Father commanded. Come now, let us go.

2. John 17:11-26
   
   I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep those you have given me true to your name, so that they may be one like us. While I was with them, I kept those you had given me true to your name. I have watched over them and not one is lost except one who was destined to be lost, and this was to fulfil the scriptures. But now I am coming to you and I say these things in the world to share my joy with them to the full. I passed your word on to them, and the world hated them, because they belong to the world no more than I belong to the world. I am not asking you to remove them from the world, but to protect them from the Evil One. They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. Consecrate them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world, and for their sake I consecrate myself so that they too may be consecrated in truth. I pray not only for these but also for those who through their teaching will come to believe in me. May they all be one, just as, Father, you are in me and I am in you, so that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe it was you who sent me. I have given them the glory you gave to me, that they may be one as we are one. With me in them and you in me, may they be so perfected in unity that the world will recognise that it was you who sent me and that you have loved them as you have loved me.
   
   Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they may always see my glory which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. Father, Upright One, the world has not known you, but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me. I have made your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and so that I may be in them.

3. I 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.

4. Revelation 3:1-3,12,16-19
   
   'Write to the angel of the church in Sardis and say, "Here is the message of the one who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: I know about your behaviour: how you are reputed to be alive and yet are dead. Wake up; put some resolve into what little vigour you have left: it is dying fast. So far I have failed to notice anything in your behaviour that my God could possibly call perfect; remember how you first heard the message. Hold on to that. Repent! If you do not wake up, I shall come to you like a thief, and you will have no idea at what hour I shall come upon you.
   
   Anyone who proves victorious I will make into a pillar in the sanctuary of my God, and it will stay there for ever; I will inscribe on it the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem which is coming down from my God in heaven, and my own new name as well.
   
   '...but since you are neither hot nor cold, but only lukewarm, I will spit you out of my mouth. You say to yourself: I am rich, I have made a fortune and have everything I want, never realising that you are wretchedly and pitiably poor, and blind and naked too. I warn you, buy from me the gold that has been tested in the fire to make you truly rich, and white robes to clothe you and hide your shameful nakedness, and ointment to put on your eyes to enable you to see. I reprove and train those whom I love: so repent in real earnest.'

5. Revelation 5:9-14
   
   They sang a new hymn: You are worthy to take the scroll and to break its seals, because you were sacrificed, and with your blood you bought people for God of every race, language, people and nation and made them a line of kings and priests for God, to rule the world.
   
   In my vision, I heard the sound of an immense number of angels gathered round the throne and the living creatures and the elders; there were ten thousand times ten thousand of them and thousands upon thousands, loudly chanting:

Worthy is the Lamb that was sacrificed to receive power, riches, wisdom, strength, honour, glory and blessing.

Then I heard all the living things in creation-everything that lives in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and in the sea, crying:

To the One seated on the throne and to the Lamb, be all praise, honour, glory and power, for ever and ever.

And the four living creatures said, 'Amen'; and the elders prostrated themselves to worship.

6. Revelation 7:14-17
   
   I answered him, 'You can tell me, sir.' Then he said, 'These are the people who have been through the great trial; they have washed their robes white again in the blood of the Lamb. That is why they are standing in front of God's throne and serving him day and night in his sanctuary; and the One who sits on the throne will spread his tent over them. They will never hunger or thirst again; sun and scorching wind will never plague them, because the Lamb who is at the heart of the throne will be their shepherd and will guide them to springs of living water; and God will wipe away all tears from their eyes.'

7. Revelation 12:1-8
   
   Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth. Then a second sign appeared in the sky: there was a huge red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, and each of the seven heads crowned with a coronet. Its tail swept a third of the stars from the sky and hurled them to the ground, and the dragon stopped in front of the woman as she was at the point of giving birth, so that it could eat the child as soon as it was born. The woman was delivered of a boy, the son who was to rule all the nations with an iron sceptre, and the child was taken straight up to God and to his throne, while the woman escaped into the desert, where God had prepared a place for her to be looked after for twelve hundred and sixty days.
   
   And now war broke out in heaven, when Michael with his angels attacked the dragon. The dragon fought back with his angels, but they were defeated and driven out of heaven.

8. Revelation 14:1-7
   
   Next in my vision I saw Mount Zion, and standing on it the Lamb who had with him a hundred and forty-four thousand people, all with his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. I heard a sound coming out of heaven like the sound of the ocean or the roar of thunder; it was like the sound of harpists playing their harps. There before the throne they were singing a new hymn in the presence of the four living creatures and the elders, a hymn that could be learnt only by the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the world. These are the sons who have kept their virginity and not been defiled with women they follow the Lamb wherever he goes; they, out of all people, have been redeemed to be the first-fruits for God and for the Lamb. No lie was found in their mouths and no fault can be found in them.
   
   Then I saw another angel, flying high overhead, sent to announce the gospel of eternity to all who live on the earth, every nation, race, language and tribe. He was calling, 'Fear God and glorify him, because the time has come for him to sit in judgement; worship the maker of heaven and earth and sea and the springs of water.'
   
   Revelation 19: 7-8
   
   let us be glad and joyful and give glory to God, because this is the time for the marriage of the Lamb. His bride is ready, and she has been able to dress herself in dazzling white linen, because her linen is made of the good deeds of the saints.'

9. Revelation 21:1-10
   
   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. Write this, "What I am saying is trustworthy and will come true."' Then he said to me, 'It has already happened. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give water from the well of life free to anybody who is thirsty; anyone who proves victorious will inherit these things; and I will be his God and he will be my son. But the legacy for cowards, for those who break their word, or worship obscenities, for murderers and the sexually immoral, and for sorcerers, worshippers of false gods or any other sort of liars, is the second death in the burning lake of sulphur.'
   
   One of the seven angels that had the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came to speak to me and said, 'Come here and I will show you the bride that the Lamb has married.' In the spirit, he carried me to the top of a very high mountain, and showed me Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down out of heaven from God.
   
   Revelation 22:20
   
   The one who attests these things says: I am indeed coming soon.
   
   Amen; come, Lord Jesus.

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Scriptural quotations are taken from The New Jerusalem Bible, Doubleday & Co.
Imprimatur granted by Cardinal Hume.

My dear Father, I offer You this day all my prayers, works, joys and sufferings, my every breath, my every heartbeat, my every thought, all my actions, in union with Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world, in the Holy Spirit. I pray the Holy Spirit is with me every second today, enlightening me to do the Will of the Father and filling me with the fire of God's love.

I ask Jesus and Mary to be one in me in all that I do and I unite with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory to pray continually to the Father for these intercessions, in this prayer, for this day.

For myself, I pray for grace-abundant grace, to know and love God more and more and to follow the Will of the Father. I pray to the Holy Spirit to transform me in the heart of Mary to be more and more like Jesus. I pray that I can forever dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. I pray for conversion of all those I hold dear who need conversion. I pray for each member of my family that they will be filled with Your abundant grace to grow in their knowledge and love of God.

I pray for all my friends that they will receive abundant grace to carry out the great plan of the Father, that they will grow forever closer to Jesus' Heart through Mary's heart, that we will all be led by the Holy Spirit to do His work, that we will, together, carry out the plan of the Father as He intends us to, to spread the love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary's heart to this world.

Jesus, I pray for myself so the Holy Spirit descends upon me and opens my heart to Your love so I will grow more and more deeply in union with You. I pray that I do not worry what other people think but try always to please the Father and do His Will. I pray that I may help lead many to Your burning love.

I pray for the following people in particular that they will be filled with the Spirit and grow deeply in their union with You, that they will receive abundant graces to know, love and serve You more. (Include special friends by name...)

I pray for priests the world over, for the success of the Priestly Newsletter, the Chapters and for the finances needed for the Newsletter. I pray for the circulation of the Blue Book messages, rosary meditations and tapes. I pray for all those involved in the publication of these messages.

I pray that You will shower Your abundant graces onto the priests reading the Newsletter the people reading and hearing the Blue Book messages and rosary meditations and all of Fr. Carter's publications.

We pray for the intentions we hold deep within our hearts, for our families and friends, for those requesting our prayers. We pray for children the world over and for the souls in purgatory. We ask God to shower His abundant grace on us and the members of our Shepherds of Christ Chapter so that we may grow more and more in our knowledge and love of God.

We consecrate ourselves to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. We pray for Father Carter, for Father Smith, for Rita Ring, and for John Weickert, for all leaders and helpers in the Shepherds of Christ Movement, for Shepherds of Christ Ministries, and Our Lady of Light Ministry. We pray for all those who are working in these ministries.

We bind ourselves and our children and our friends to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. We place the precious blood of Jesus on ourselves, and all we touch, so that we will be protected from the evil one. We pray to St. Michael to cast the devil into hell.

We love You, God, we love You, we love You. We beg that we may receive the grace to love You more and more deeply. We adore You, we praise You, our beloved Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Morning Offering

My dear Father, I offer you this day all my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings in union with Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world, in the Holy Spirit.

I unite with our Mother, Mary, all the angels and saints, and all the souls in purgatory to pray to the Father for myself, for each member of my family, for my friends, for all people throughout the world, for all the souls in purgatory, and for all other intentions of the Sacred Heart.

I love You, Jesus, and I give You my heart. I love you, Mary, and I give you my heart. Amen.