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May 16, 2014

May 17th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 8 Period I.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries
for May 17th are Luminous.

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R. Pray for These Things

                1) Pray for the priests, the Church and the world!
                2) Pray for the spread of prayer chapters,
                    also for the spread of priests doing prayer chapters.
                3) Pray for the spread of Blue Books.
                4) People going to Florida and China.
                5) Vocations to all 7 categories.
                6) Pray for spread of Consecration and Rosary.
                7) Pray for pope helping us.
                8) Blue Book 13 cover; Blue Book 12, Blue Book 13 – all involved.
                    For our Publisher and all involved
                9) All intentions on my list, Jerry's list.
              10) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
              11) Donors and members and their families.
              12) Healing of the Family tree.
              13) Dan & Melanie, Catherine & mom, Gary, Mary Jo,
                    Jim & statues, Fr. Ken, Monsignor, Tom & wife; Kerry.
              14) All who asked us to pray for them.
              15) All we promised to pray for.
              16) Rita, John, Doris, Sheila, Jerry, Regina, Sanja,
                    Betty, Sophie, Lisa, Eileen, Fr. Mike, Jeff, Louie,
                    2 Dons, Mary Ellen, Fr. Joe, all priests helping us,
                    Ed, Jimmy, a special couple, Rosie & all involved.
              17) 2 babies and moms.
              18) Funds and insurance.
              19) Special intentions.
              20) Jerry's garage.
              21) Spread the Blood of Jesus on all of us here.
              22) Consecrate all hearts.
              23) Cast the devil out of all of us here and all in Movement.

May 16, 2014

R. I was awakened with knocking –

My dear God please help us to do Your will.

                Jesus: When the morning comes the day before is done and it
                will never return again. The time in salvation history
                from the past is gone. Your lives are not forever on
                this earth. You have only so many days to do what
                I call you to do. This day is its own agenda, you are
                called to live it doing all I am asking you to do
                that day, you will never return to the opportunities
                of that day again.

                    Many people think they own the day and can do
                what they want and they have plenty more where
                that came from. I call you to be, to be in
                relationship every day with others and to build
                up relationships that are helping others to prepare for
                their eternal life. You are here with the goal to be
                what God wants you to be. Your days that I give
                you will help you to go to heaven if you live as
                I want and will help others to go to heaven if
                you do what I want that day with the people I
                call you to help, to meet, to reach out and touch.
                I call you to be strengthening your relationship with
                Me – always – your life is to be lived as you grow
                in your relationship with Me and you know Me
                more and more deeply and know you are preparing
                for eternity. Every day is important here for your
                eternal life.

                    I give you life – it is a gift from God, I give you
                gifts to enjoy – the beauty of the earth, the light of
                a sun-lit day, the stars of night, the darkness
                for sleeping. I am always with you, My child and I
                am walking with you hand-in-hand. I am loving
                the old person you meet in your gentle smile, I am
                working in your heart all day, since you offered
                Me your day in the Morning Offering, you have offered
                Me your life united to the Mass and you offer it as
                an offering, a sacrifice united to the Holy Sacrifice
                of the Mass for souls.

                    As you give your life to Me, united to the Mass
                for souls, united to all the angels and saints and the
                souls in purgatory –
                as you offer your lives to Me, to the Father, in the Holy
                Spirit, through the intercession of My Mother –
                great grace is released for souls, all over the world.
                When you go to Mass – you are especially re-living My
                life, death and resurrection in your life –
                You are living your whole life as an offering to Me –
                You give, as I gave, and you give, Rita, all the days
                of retreat – the days I asked you to come to China,
                again and again and again, the days I asked
                you to come to the Virgin Mary building, again
                and again and again and you help the souls with
                your prayers, you help the priests, the Church and
                the world with your prayers. Don't pay attention
                to others who are not with you, who come with a
                different agenda. When you go to Church, to the
                retreats – you focus on what I asked of you.
                I have called you to this and it is My will, the
                will of the Father you do as you were asked
                to do.

                    China is important to My Father and so is the
                Virgin Mary building. The Father wants 24
                hour adoration in China, Indiana in His Church
                and He wants people praying there for the
                priests, the Church and the world, as
                I have requested – every day – all day –

Song: China Song

Jesus: Fr. Carter knew how important China was to
My Plan, the Father's Plan in Salvation History.

Father Carter's Talk
February 18, 2000

    Well, what should I say to you. It comes to my heart that I should start off telling you about the Holy Family’s house, the little home they lived in, in Nazareth which is now situated/surrounded by a Basilica Church in Loreto, Italy. And I had the privilege of visiting that shrine. How did their house get there—their little home all the way from Nazareth to Loreto, Italy? There’re different theories on it. One which seems very plausible to me is that during one of the crusades, when the crusaders were in the Holy Land, they had great reason to fear that the home of the Holy Family, the little house would be destroyed by the enemies of Christianity. So they dismantled it and brought it back by ship and then it was reassembled there at Loreto. And there is scientific proof to back this up, for instance they say that the stone out of which the Holy Family home/house was built is that which is used in the Holy Land and it’s not indigenous at all to Italy. So I really do believe that is the house where Jesus and Mary lived at Nazareth. And one of the first things that strikes you about it is how tiny it is—very, very small—one more indication that Our Lord did not need the trappings of this earth, wealth and palatial surroundings and so forth to prove to show His greatness. He was and is great simply because what He is in Himself, who He is. And we get the same lesson, that’s one of the lessons which comes out of His birth at Bethlehem; the kings of this earth come into this world with great palatial showings and all the fanfare which surrounds the life of royalty and yet the King of kings comes in this world in the simplest surroundings. Again He teaches us many lessons from this, one of them certainly is where does true greatness lie. It doesn’t lie in the things which are outside of you, the things which surround you, it lies within your very depths.

    I think all of you here at China give a great witness to life of Jesus, Mary and Joseph at Nazareth and to the birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem. Your life is so simple. It is so hidden and yet like the life of Jesus at Nazareth, it is meant to be redemptive. His life certainly was redemptive those first 33 years of His existence. And I think I said in a homily to you some months ago, that if we had it to plan we certainly would have arranged, I’m sure all of us, Jesus’ life here on earth differently. I don’t think in the depths of our heart if we’re honest with ourselves, if the Father says, “you map out the way you think Jesus, My Son, should live here below in the time allotted,” who of us, who of us would have had Him hidden away for 10/11ths of that mortal life span. We would have given much more time to His public life. And here Jesus under the Father teaches us a great lesson—that we share in His redemptive efforts proportionate to the depth of our love and as that life of love is supported by faith and hope so Jesus takes the most humble places and He takes the most simple living people and He uses those simple places and those simple people to accomplish great things. So glory in your existence here at China, in its hiddenness and ask for the faith to realize more and more the great good you are doing for the Movement and the Church and the world.

    There are so many lives of the saints which are at witness to this hidden life of Jesus. And the one that usually comes first to my mind is that of St. Therese of Lisieux, who lived that very, very very hidden life in the cloistered convent at Lisieux and only for nine short years. She entered, as I’m sure you know it, with special dispensation from the pope. She entered at 15 and died at 24. And the good she accomplished in those nine years at Carmel, that was already achieved before she was canonized and people came to know about her great life of holiness. But during those nine short years at Carmel she was doing so so so much to help in the salvation of souls. And her life was so ordinary, so much so in its external framework, so much so that I think it’s, if I remember correctly, her sisters—the nuns with whom she lived with in the Carmelite convent there were surprised when the her cause for beatification was introduced. And why was her life so great—because she did the simplest things, everything with the great depth of faith and hope and love, those gifts which the Holy Spirit showered her with in tremendous depth.

    And so your life here at China is in such great imitation of Jesus, Mary and Joseph at Nazareth and such great saints as St. Therese of Lisieux, those saints who lived such a hidden existence. And so first of all I thank you for persevering in this life. I think I have some more than ordinary insight into the greatness you are contributing towards the Movement and the Church and the world. So I thank you very profusely and I also highly encourage you to persevere in this life and to pray for the grace to get a deepened insight into just how great your life is here at China for the cause of Christ.

    God’s ways are not our ways nor His thoughts are not our thoughts. And so contrary to the way that so much of the world thinks and even many in the Church it puts such great emphasis on those activities which attract public attention and acclaim and so forth. We know that God looks first of all to the depth of love, a love of His will, the depth of loving conformity to His will—this is how He measures the success of a life. The external framework of which that life is lived as it were as secondary, always secondary to the depth of faith, hope and love, a depth of a loving conformity of one’s will to the Father’s will in Christ, through Christ in the Spirit with a prayerful assistance of Mary our Mother. Amen.

    So in summary, thank you for persevering in your life here. Secondly, pray for a deepened insight into the greatness of your life here, what it means for the Church, the Movement and the world. And thirdly, pray for a great sense of joy for the vocation, the calling Jesus has given you, at least at this time of your life, to your life here in China.

Holy Family of Nazareth pray for us.

    Heavenly Father, I ask your most special blessings on your specially chosen ones here as I have just put before them and requesting them, suggesting to them to pray for an increased light of their greatness here and strength to live by that light. So I ask You Heavenly Father abundantly to give them that grace. Give them great sense of peace and joy here despite the trials they have to endure as Your Son showed us suffering, even deep suffering is not contrary to peace in the Lord. Father, let them know how special they are to You. Bless them most abundantly now and all the days of their life. Father, I put this petition before you through your Son Jesus in the Holy Spirit with the prayerful assistance of Mary our Mother. Amen.

    May the Blessing of Almighty God, Father Son and Holy Spirit descend upon you and remain forever. Amen.

end of Father Carter's Talk

From a Lenten Homily, March 24, 2000

Live in the Moment

Today’s Gospel in its story certainly points ahead to Jesus in His Passion and death. And as we read passages such as this during the Lenten season, we are reminded once again that the Church in her Liturgy of the Word gives us an opportunity to undergo a purification, an ever deepening cleansing of ourselves so that we may be a more fit instrument for receiving the great graces which are to be given to us at the time of the Resurrection memorial on Easter. And so all in all, Lent is a time of purification to prepare us for ever-greater gifts of the Lord. It’s a time of self-discipline, a time to renew our efforts to be self-disciplined in the service of the Lord. Self-discipline is an aspect of purification. And I suggest that one of the most difficult acts of self-discipline in the spiritual journey is to concentrate on the present moment. We have a very strong tendency to disregard the importance of the present moment by focusing in a wrong way on the past or in a wrong way on the future. There are proper occasions for thinking of the past and the future. For example, we have to learn from the past and we have to prepare for the future, but our great emphasis has to be upon the present. There is a Latin axiom which says, age quod agis, age quod agis, which means: do what you are doing, concentrate on the present. And of course we are familiar with that term in the history of spirituality: the sacrament of the present moment. And so the discipline of Lent certainly encourages us to include in a deeper self-discipline a greater determination to get as much as we can out of the present moment. People with a terminal illness have an opportunity as they prepare for death for increased prayer, contrition, love of God. However, some are taken very, very quickly. But for those who have the opportunity of knowing with some certainty the time of their death, I’m sure as they look back on their lives, they are saddened by the many times they did not use time and opportunities for the service of the Lord properly, and are overjoyed at those times in which they did use the present opportunity properly. A great means we have of living in the present properly is a greater focus upon our Lord. For if I have that awareness of the fact I am united with Jesus here and now, why should I be concerned so much about the future or the past? Yes, a great help in living in the present and deriving all the good we can from it for ourselves and others is an ever greater focus upon Jesus, because the more I focus upon Jesus and the more I live with Him in the present moment, the more I am satisfied with the present moment. And so let us in our Lenten activity resolve to grow in that self-discipline - which is very difficult at times - to really live in the presence with the fullness of our being as much as is possible, with the help of God’s grace. Now is the day of salvation. Now is the day of salvation.

end of Father Carter's homily

                Jesus: Every day you live is to please your Heavenly
                Father and to promote the relationships,
                as He desires that day to enfold in your
                lives to help in the Father's Plan for the
                building of the Kingdom of God.

                If you are doing other things, not what God
                wants, selfish pursuits opposed to His will
                you not only aren't doing what God is
                asking for, but you are taking others from
                what God wants of them to do.

                    What you do can make the difference
                to so many souls. Some I allow to suffer
                to help in the work of redemption – their
                suffering is redemptive –

                    You, I have allowed to suffer with
                those who oppose My Plan and work
                against it. I call and they can listen and
                respond or be the weak link to the Plan
                that can help so many souls to live to help
                build the Kingdom of God.

                    Your suffering can help souls to get
                to heaven. Your lives are like days in a
                book. When you take out a page of a
                book, something is missing in the story,
                when your lives are lived in your own
                agenda, doing your own will, seeking
                foolish whims and pleasures – those
                days – like pages in a book may be far
                from helping to build the Kingdom of God –

                Chapters can be missing and instead of making
                reparation to My Heart and My Mother's Heart for
                how you lived your lives, ignoring God's Plan
                for you – you can keep on lying about
                how you opposed God's will so – once
                again – you say –
                My face here below and how I look to others
                is my god –
                instead of plugging into the plug God
                wants you to be in and being connected
                to an undying source –
                you plug into nothing, that has might or power
                and just do your own will –
                one more time –

                Satan likes to tell you to do it your way –
                Be focused on your pleasures, satan says –
                Focus on yourself –

                Close in to relationships God is calling you
                    to, in purity for the building of the
                    Kingdom –

                Satan likes to waste time when no work
                    for the building of the Kingdom gets
                    done –

People coming with an agenda and arguing to
try to stop what I asked for –

                I have called and asked for the Ministries –
                    The School Rosary Program –
                    The spreading of the Prayer Chapters –
                    The spreading of the Blue Books –
                        My sweet letters to My souls –
                        My teachings on the Mass –

                My Mother has asked since she appeared
                    in Clearwater for the spreading of
                    these rosaries from Our Two Hearts.

                You have so much time, I called you to give –
                    Meetings, people have all these meetings,
                    but I call for little discussions of My
                    Plan for these Ministries –
                    Oh we don't have any time for this discussion –

                Communication about problems is how they
                    are solved –
                    Some tell you – there are no problems
                    so they don't have to get involved
                    in helping you do what I am asking
                    them to help with.

                The problems you have are made by people who
                    are saying no –
                    some who have a responsibility to help –
                    not helping in the problem – telling you
                    it don't exist – so they don't have to
                    do anything then –

Problems are a part of life and are to be
handled to help build My Kingdom –

                Those trying to solve what needs time and
                    attention as quick as possible
                    or ignoring it are damaging things
                    that I am calling to help souls –

                After years of this attitude –
                    satan makes it a rule –
                    you don't discuss anything that needs
                    attention –

Order is the sweetness in relationships –

                Using time to argue, fight what I ask
                    for, not addressing problems is
                    like a man who has a bow and
                    arrow and a target –
                    He sends his arrow every where, but
                    where I am asking it to go – in
                    the center of the target –

Jesus: Satan has lots of arguments to keep you
from doing what God is calling you to do –

Pride – it must be, I am first
it must be, it is my idea

                Pride – focus on me
                            focus on my agenda - skip what God wants.

                Jesus: Every day is a new day for new life –
                Every day is a new day of Death/Resurrection
                    Dying to the ways you give into satan
                        opposed to God's will –
                        for control,
                        for distraction,
                        for attention

I call in perfect timing –

Satan comes and tries to stop what
I ask for –

                Mary appeared all the 5ths for almost 2 1/2 years
                    the 5th was the day God the Father sent
                    her –

                I called on the 17th for meetings for over
                    2 1/2 years leading up to
                    December 17, 1996 –
                    The men involved tried to change
                        the 17th meeting –
                        every month for their agenda –

Father Carter died after the 6:20 prayers
on December 18, 2000 –

I called and he died when I called him –

                    I am a witness to how the Father's Plan
                is what is important. The time I died was
                by the Father's Plan – The 3 days in the
                tomb was the Father's Plan –

                    I witnessed to the Father, a perfect
                manifestation of truth and love. You
                as members of My mystical body, are
                to witness to Me. The Christian's entire
                life is to witness to the truth – to live
                in truth.

R. We are to be witnesses to Christ with our lives.

This is one way the world knows Christ through
our witnessing to Christ.

The incarnation goes on in our lives
as we put on Christ.

                Many people want to hold onto their bad
                    habits because they don't want
                    to change.

                If bad habits are spiritual pride and
                    jealousy and envy and anger its
                    like throwing rocks in a garden –

It won't grow fruit and vegetables on rocks
and bad soil.

                    If we are not witnessing to Christ in our
                lives others will not see Christ at work
                in us. Do we say we know Christians in
                today's world by how they witness to
                Christ –

                    We die to those ways not like Christ and
                rise more and more in the life of resurrection.
                Christ's entire life can be summed up
                in Death/Resurrection.

                    God gives us His grace, so we
                can die to those ways not likened
                to Him – we are always living
                both – the dying to those ways
                not like Jesus to live the life
                of resurrection to be more like Jesus.
                We are to die to self-will in all
                the ways we hold onto that keep
                us from living God's will.

                We conform our lives, lovingly to
                the Father's will. Our ultimate
                goal is a greater sharing in His
                life – in the life of resurrection.
                In this lies our peace.

                    We as members of the body of
                Christ are to re-live Christ's
                entire life as centered in Death/Resurrection.
                St. Ignatius teaches us about living
                the Mystery of Christ in our lives and
                Jesus and Mary have taught us about
                the Mystery of Christ's life in the
                Rosary Books, the Blue Books,
                the writings Jesus has given to me.
                We are to live out these various
                mysteries in our lives. We need
                to meditate on this – Thus Jesus
                and Mary gave us all these Rosary
                Meditations.

                    We live the Mystery of Christ
                in our lives. We live this
                Mystery in our vocation, called by
                God to do so. There are various
                vocations in the Church –
                We are to project Christ into
                the world – bear witness to Christ
                in our lives –
                We are to put on Christ!
                We put on Christ in our vocations –
                in family and at work, dying and
                rising in Him – We witness to
                Christ in our relationships
                as we live the Mystery of Christ
                and project the way of Christ into the world.

                We are united to the Mass all day
                in the giving of our lives in
                our vocation to God. We live
                the Pascal Mystery of Death/Resurrection
                in our lives, united to the Mass
                in our Morning Offering.
                We live in oneness in Christ our
                head as members of the
                mystical body of Christ.
                We are members of His Mystical
                Body in our unique way in
                our vocation united to the
                Mass –– ALL DAY!

                We are united at Mass –
                We are united to the Mass all day –
                We live the Mystery of Christ
                united to the Mass
                    ALL DAY as members
                of the mystical body of Christ
                in Christ – our head!!
                We are created social beings –
                We do not go to God alone,
                God communicated Himself
                to man in salvation history
                in the framework of community –

                The liturgy is communal –
                    we worship as one body
                    in Him –
                    but we participate individually
                    at Mass in this union.
                    We respond to God deeply in
                    our hearts to God –
                    We worship as one –

We are a member of a
religious community –

We are the People of God –

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