Shepherds of Christ Daily Writing          

May 21, 2015

May 22nd Holy Spirit Novena
 Scripture selection is Day 9 Period I.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries 
for May 22nd are Sorrowful.

 

Pray for special intentions.

 

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Fr. Joe, Sonny & family, Blue Book 15,

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Please pray for funds & grace.

   

                   

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                May 21, 2015

                    Today's Readings

Acts 22: 30; 23-6-11

The next day, since he wanted to know for sure what charge the Jews were bringing, he freed Paul and gave orders for a meeting of the chief priests and the entire Sanhedrin; then he brought Paul down and set him in front of them.

    Now Paul was well aware that one party was made up of Sadducees and the other of Pharisees, so he called out in the Sanhedrin, 'Brothers, I am a Pharisee and the son of Pharisees. It is for our hope in the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.' As soon as he said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the assembly was split between the two parties. For the Sadducees say there is neither resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit, while the Pharisees accept all three. The shouting grew louder, and some of the scribes from the Pharisees' party stood up and protested strongly, 'We find nothing wrong with this man. Suppose a spirit has spoken to him, or an angel?' Feeling was running high, and the tribune, afraid that they would tear Paul to pieces, ordered his troops to go down and haul him out and bring him into the fortress. Next night, the Lord appeared to him and said, 'Courage! You have borne witness for me in Jerusalem, now you must do the same in Rome.'

   

Psalm 16: 1-2, 5, 7-11

[In a quiet voice Of David]

                        Protect me, O God, in you is my refuge.

                        To Yahweh I say, 'You are my Lord,
                        my happiness is in none of the sacred spirits of the earth.'

My birthright, my cup is Yahweh;
you, you alone, hold my lot secure.

I bless Yahweh who is my counsellor,
even at night my heart instructs me.
I keep Yahweh before me always,
for with him at my right hand, nothing can shake me. 

So my heart rejoices, my soul delights,
my body too will rest secure,
for you will not abandon me to Sheol,
you cannot allow your faithful servant to see the abyss.
You will teach me the path of life,
unbounded joy in your presence,
at your right hand delight for ever.

    

John 17: 20-26

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 a
nd 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.

  

        R. Paul wanted to be there for one of
            the Feasts in Ephesus –
            Somebody recognized Paul and
            wanted to arrest him –
            The Sadducees didn't believe in
                the resurrection and angels –

        A big debate started
            among Sadducees and Pharisees
            The Pharisees believed in the resurrection and angels –

        Then Paul said he was a Pharisee
        The dispute was so bad –

        Keep me, God, I take refuge in You –

        In the Gospel – is the Priestly Prayer of Jesus –
                this is the third part –
            Jesus prays in John 17 for
                Himself first –
            Jesus prays for His Apostles

            Jesus, in this third part, prays
                for us –
                praying for unity –
                praying we would be one –
                    in the body in Christ
                We see the world – with the
                    multiple denominations –
                We must pray we are
                    one in Him, one in His body
                    as Christ prayed –

        Our Father always hears our
            prayers –

        Jesus prayed for us at the Last
            Supper –

        Jesus prays for us at the Mass
            today –

        The Mass is a Supper – we
            receive Jesus in the Holy Eucharist

        We pray for the priests, the Church
            and the world –

        God please hear us as we pray –

        We celebrated the Ascension last Sunday –
            Here are the readings.
    

Acts 1: 1-11

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.’

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. They were still staring into the sky as he went, when suddenly two men in white were standing beside them, and they said, ‘Why are you Galileans standing here looking into the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will come back in the same way as you have seen him go to heaven.’

   

Ephesians 4: 1-13

I, the prisoner in the Lord, urge you therefore to lead a life worthy of the vocation to which you were called. With all humility and gentleness, and with patience, support each other in love. Take every care to preserve the unity of the Spirit by the peace that binds you together. There is one Body, one Spirit, just as one hope is the goal of your calling by God. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God and Father of all, over all, through all and within all.

    On each one of us God's favour has been bestowed in whatever way Christ allotted it. That is why it says:

    He went up to the heights, took captives,
    he gave gifts to humanity.

    When it says, 'he went up', it must mean that he had gone down to the deepest levels of the earth. The one who went down is none other than the one who went up above all the heavens to fill all things. And to some, his ‘gift’ was that they should be apostles; to some prophets; to some, evangelists; to some, pastors and teachers; to knit God’s holy people together for the work of service to build up the Body of Christ, until we all reach unity in faith and knowledge of the Son of God and form the perfect Man, fully mature with the fullness of Christ himself.

 

Mark 16: 15-20

And he said to them, ‘Go out to the whole world; proclaim the gospel to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptised will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned. These are the signs that will be associated with believers: in my name they will cast out devils; they will have the gift of tongues; they will pick up snakes in their hands and be unharmed should they drink deadly poison; they will lay their hands on the sick, who will recover.’ 

    And so the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven; there at the right hand of God he took his place, while they, going out, preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the signs that accompanied it.

       

 
 

Feast of the Ascension
May 20, 2012

HOMILY – (Acts 1:1-11; Eph 4:1-13; Mark 16:15-20) Jesus promised that those who believe in him would be able to perform many powerful signs: healing the sick, casting out demons, praying in tongues, being bit by serpents without any ill effect and a few others. Probably all of these signs reflect the miraculous powers given to the Apostles in the early Church, including once when St. Paul was bitten by a viper on the Island of Melita (Acts 28:3) and nothing happened to him. That event brought a lot of conversions. The Church to this day still has a sacrament for the sick, still does exorcisms, and some believers pray in tongues. All of the people I know still avoid snakes.

I want to tell you a story. A man who was not a frequent church goer decided to go to church with his wife one Sunday. She went to a very fundamentalist denomination that took every word in the Bible literally. During the service this gospel was read and after the reading the pastor walked down the main aisle of church, picked up a large box, opened it up and it was filled with all kinds of snakes. He started handing them out to people as he walked up the aisle, asking them to prove their faith. The husband asked his wife, “you don’t think he’s going to hand me one of those, do you.” “I don’t know,” she said. “Well,” he said, looking around the room, “where’s the back door?” “There ain’t none,” she replied. “Well then,” the husband asked, “where do you think they would like to have one?” (The Joyful Noiseletter, April 2009)

I don’t think Jesus expects us to go around testing God by deliberately getting bit by serpents. Jesus expects us to use our good sense. He himself told Satan, “you shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test” when Satan was tempting Jesus to throw himself off the parapet of the Temple.

Our first reading is the beginning of the Acts of the Apostles. It is St. Luke’s second volume showing how the work of Jesus continued after his ascension. As he begins the book of Acts, Luke briefly gives us a recapitulation of what he has already told us in his gospel about Jesus’ work, his death and his resurrection. We heard Luke tell us in today’s first reading that for 40 days Jesus continued to appear to the Apostles and teach them about the kingdom. There is no other mention of 40 days in the Acts of the Apostles, other than the period of time during which Jesus appeared to the Apostles. When we read this passage, it sounds as if Jesus didn’t ascend to the Father until after he finished appearing. But Luke tells us in his gospel it was on Easter Sunday night when Jesus ascended. I think he first ascended then started appearing to the Apostles for a period of time until he thought they were sufficiently prepared to do the work he wanted them to do. The number 40 is a round number meaning something like between 25 and 45. It is a number that is often used symbolically as a time of preparation. Remember God’s chosen people spent 40 years in the desert in preparation to enter the promised land, Elijah walked 40 days and 40 nights to Mt. Horeb as he prepared for the next part of his calling, Jesus spent 40 days fasting in the desert before he began his public ministry. Jesus’ appearances after the resurrection for 40 days, as presented here in Luke, suggests that Jesus was teaching and preparing his Apostles to go out and continue his work.

Of all the things Jesus and his Apostles may have talked about, Luke draws special attention to a burning issue in the early Church. The Apostles ask Jesus, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” They were all thinking apocalyptically; that is, they were looking forward to the time when God would punish their enemies, raise the dead to life and establish his kingdom of peace and justice when the Messiah would rule the world. We see this was a real issue in the early Church in some of the letters of St. Paul. After 2000 years it still hasn’t happened. Through the centuries many people have predicted when this would take place. Jesus never gave an answer to that question, and those who have tried to figure it out have always failed. So when people try to predict the end of the world and the second coming of Christ, the odds say they will be wrong. We seldom think much about it but our Lord tells us that we should be concerned so that we are prepared and when the Lord comes he will find us living the way God wants us to.

I have been talking about the first reading from Luke, but before I conclude I should say something about the gospel from Mark. Mark ends his brief description of Jesus’ ascension by telling us Jesus is now seated at the right hand of the Father. In effect, Mark is saying that Jesus was at the same level of power and importance as God, above every principality, authority, power, and dominion and every thing that ever existed or will exist as Paul tells us in the second reading. Being seated at God’s right hand is one of the earliest ways of expressing Jesus’ glorification. Later the Church gave a clearer description of Jesus’ position vis-a-vis the Father. In the Council of Nicea, the Church officially defined that Jesus is equal to and of the divine being with the Father. The Council used the word “consubstantial” with the Father, a word that means “of the same substance.” We say this in the Creed each week.

In contrast to Mark, Luke, in the Acts of the Apostles, ends his description of the ascension using a somewhat different image. Jesus is hidden from view by a cloud or even raised up by a cloud. In other words, Jesus entered into a world that is beyond what we can know about while we are still in this present life. As Paul said, “eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into people’s hearts what God has prepared for those who love him.” The great theologian, St. Thomas Aquinas, who clearly and beautifully wrote volumes about God and the life of faith, had a mystical experience while saying Mass. He somehow saw beyond that cloud and experienced the glory of God. After that he stopped writing. People asked why and he said something like: “what I have seen makes all my writing look like straw in comparison.” Besides representing the glory of heaven which cannot be seen, a cloud in the Bible is also a symbol of divinity. Remember it was a cloud that led the people of God through the desert as they traveled to the Promised Land. It was a cloud that filled Solomon’s Temple when God made it his dwelling place. Through different images, Luke and Mark are telling us that Jesus entered into the fullness of glory that was rightfully his. The Ascension, however, is not just about the glorification of Jesus; it is also a feast of hope for us, for where Christ has gone, he has promised that we who live as he has taught us will certainly follow. It is one of the few guarantees that we can have in this life. Amen.

   
 

From Priestly Newsletter Book III 

The Eucharist

  • The death-resurrection of Jesus, which is encountered in a special way through the sacraments, is most especially renewed in the Eucharistic Sacrifice. Consequently, we can see the logical connection between the sacraments and the Mass. Indeed, all of the sacraments point to the Eucharistic Sacrifice.

  • At the Last Supper, on the night He was betrayed, our Saviour instituted the Eucharistic Sacrifice of His Body and Blood. He did this in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the Cross throughout the centuries until He should come again, and so to entrust to His beloved spouse, the Church, a memorial of His death and resurrection: a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity, a paschal banquet in which Christ is consumed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us (Vatican II, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, No. 17)26

  • The Church, therefore, earnestly desires that Christ's faithful, when present at this mystery of faith, should not be there as strangers or silent spectators. On the contrary, through a proper appreciation of the rites and prayers they should participate knowingly, devoutly, and actively. They should be instructed by God’s word and be refreshed at the table of the Lord’s body; they should give thanks to God; by offering the Immaculate Victim, not only through the hands of the priest, but also with him, they should learn to offer themselves too. Through Christ the Mediator, they should be drawn day by day into ever closer union with God and with each other, so that finally God may be all in all. (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, No. 48)27

  • Through the Eucharistic Sacrifice Christ the Lord desired to set before us in a very special way this remarkable union whereby we are united one with another and with our divine Head, a union that no word of praise can ever sufficiently express. For in this sacrifice the sacred ministers act not only as the representative of our Saviour, but as the representative of the whole Mystical Body and of each one of the faithful. Again, in this act of sacrifice, the faithful of Christ, united by the common bond of devotion and prayer, offer to the eternal Father through the hands of the priest, whose prayer alone has made it present on the altar, the Immaculate Lamb, the most acceptable victim of praise and propitiation for the Church’s universal need. Moreover, just as the divine Redeemer, while dying on the Cross, offered Himself to the eternal Father as Head of the whole human race, so now, ‘in this clean oblation’ He not only offers Himself as Head of the Church to His heavenly Father but in Himself His mystical members as well. He embraces them all, yes, even the weaker and more ailing members, with the deepest love of His Heart. (Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis AAS, XXXV, 232-233)28

  • Pope John Paul II states: "This worship, given therefore to the Trinity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, above all accompanies and permeates the celebration of the Eucharistic Liturgy. But it must fill our churches also outside the timetable of Masses. Indeed, since the Eucharistic Mystery was instituted out of love, and makes Christ sacramentally present, it is worthy of thanksgiving and worship. And this worship must be prominent in all our encounters with the Blessed Sacrament, both when we visit our churches and when the sacred species are taken to the sick and administered to them.

"Adoration of Christ in this sacrament of love must also find expression in various forms of Eucharistic devotion: personal prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, Hours of Adoration, periods of exposition—short, prolonged and annual (Forty Hours) - Eucharistic benediction, Eucharistic processions, Eucharistic congresses. A particular mention should be made at this point of the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ as an act of public worship rendered to Christ present in the Eucharist, a feast instituted by my predecessor Urban IV in memory of the institution of this great Mystery.

"All this therefore corresponds to the general principles and particular norms already long in existence, but newly formulated during or after the Second Vatican Council.

"…The Church and the world have a great need of Eucharistic worship. Jesus waits for us in this sacrament of love. Let us be generous with our time in going to meet Him in adoration and in contemplation that is full of faith and ready to make reparation for the great faults and crimes of the world. May our adoration never cease."29

  • The following words of Fr. M. Raymond, O.C.S.O., emphasize the great importance regarding personal holiness and one’s participation in the Mass: "Mass, insomuch as it is Christ’s offering, is not only always acceptable to God, but is of infinite value as well.

"But, inasmuch as it is your offering and mine, and that of every other member of the Mystical Body ... we can limit the effectiveness of God’s great Act of Love; we finite beings can set bounds to the veritable flood of God-life made possible by the Infinite Son of the Infinite Father." 30

Yes, the effectiveness of each Mass, which makes the sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally present, depends in part on the holiness of the entire Church offering it with Christ to the Father in the Holy Spirit, including the holiness of the individual priest offering and the holiness of his participating congregation. . . .

  • The Sacrifice of Calvary is sacramentally made present in the Mass. When we pray the Morning Offering Prayer, united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, we act as intercessors, pleading to God that great graces be released all day through our prayerful actions as we act in love according to the Father’s will. Whether we are eating, taking care of a sick parent, enjoying time spent with a friend, working at our job, we can help bring down great graces for the world.

When we pray the Morning Offering Prayer we offer our lives to the Father, through Christ, in the Holy Spirit, with the prayerful assistance of Mary, our Mother. Let us pray together united in our hearts in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. There follows a Morning Offering Prayer.

"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, 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 the 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."32

26. The Documents of Vatican II, "Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy", America Press Edition, No. 17.
27. Ibid, No. 48.
28. Pope Pius XII, Encyclical Letter, Mystici Corporis, AAS XXXV, pp. 232-233.
29. Letter of Pope John Paul II, The Mystery and Worship of the Eucharist, Pauline Books and Media, No. 3
30. M. Raymond, O.C.S.O. This Is Love, Bruce, p. 106.
32. Rita Ring, Rosary Meditations for Parents and Children, Shepherds of Christ Ministries, p. 189.

 

 

  

    

       From Tell My People by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.       

The Holy Spirit

Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people to pray daily to the Holy Spirit. They are to pray for an increase in His gifts. My people must realize that the Holy Spirit comes to transform them. The Spirit desires to transform you more and more according to My image. Those who are docile to His touch become increasingly shaped in My likeness. He performs this marvel within Mary's Immaculate Heart. The more one dwells in My Mother's Heart, the more active are the workings of the Spirit. The Spirit leads Mary to place you within My own Heart. In both Our Hearts, then, your transformation continues. The more you are formed after My own Heart, the more I lead you to the bosom of My Father. Tell My people all this. Tell them to pray daily for a greater appreciation of these wondrous gifts. I am Lord and Master. All who come to My Heart will be on fire to receive the gifts of the Spirit in ever greater measure! I love and bless My people!"

Reflection: The Holy Spirit is given to us to fashion us ever more according to the likeness of Jesus. And the more we are like Jesus, the more Jesus leads us to the Father. Do we, each day, pray to the Holy Spirit to be more open to His transforming influence? Do we strive each day to grow in union with Mary? The greater our union with our Mother, the spouse of the Holy Spirit, the greater is the transforming action of the Holy Spirit within us.

end of excerpt

   

Jesus: Life is about love.

I have given little ones to show you how beautiful life really is.

Life is about love and trusting others
and learning to know God and His goodness.
I am Divine Love.

I am Almighty and in My goodness I created you so special and so beautiful and to have a vocation furthering the Kingdom of God, but how do you treat this great love I give to you.

Man has a wounded human Nature.

Men are to grow in holiness.
Men are to seek the Kingdom of Heaven as their goal.

Life is beautiful and you are to be My witness to the Good News.
You are to be instruments of love.

You are to love each other as I have loved you.

Scripture from today Wednesday at Mass.
 


Acts 22: 30; 23-6-11

The next day, since he wanted to know for sure what charge the Jews were bringing, he freed Paul and gave orders for a meeting of the chief priests and the entire Sanhedrin; then he brought Paul down and set him in front of them.

    Now Paul was well aware that one party was made up of Sadducees and the other of Pharisees, so he called out in the Sanhedrin, 'Brothers, I am a Pharisee and the son of Pharisees. It is for our hope in the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.' As soon as he said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the assembly was split between the two parties. For the Sadducees say there is neither resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit, while the Pharisees accept all three. The shouting grew louder, and some of the scribes from the Pharisees' party stood up and protested strongly, 'We find nothing wrong with this man. Suppose a spirit has spoken to him, or an angel?' Feeling was running high, and the tribune, afraid that they would tear Paul to pieces, ordered his troops to go down and haul him out and bring him into the fortress. Next night, the Lord appeared to him and said, 'Courage! You have borne witness for me in Jerusalem, now you must do the same in Rome.'

   

Psalm 16: 1-2, 5, 7-11

[In a quiet voice Of David]

                        Protect me, O God, in you is my refuge.

                        To Yahweh I say, 'You are my Lord,
                        my happiness is in none of the sacred spirits of the earth.'

My birthright, my cup is Yahweh;
you, you alone, hold my lot secure.

I bless Yahweh who is my counsellor,
even at night my heart instructs me.
I keep Yahweh before me always,
for with him at my right hand, nothing can shake me. 

So my heart rejoices, my soul delights,
my body too will rest secure,
for you will not abandon me to Sheol,
you cannot allow your faithful servant to see the abyss.
You will teach me the path of life,
unbounded joy in your presence,
at your right hand delight for ever.

    

John 17: 20-26

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 a
nd 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.

 

Jesus: I am God.
I am Divine Love,
I give you a sharing in My life in baptism.

I give you the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the sacrifice of Calvary Sacramentally made present.

I want unity.
I made you to grow in My image and likeness.

I am absolute truth.

Satan is a liar.
Satan wants men to lie, deceive, live under slavery to him.
Secrets keep many families sick.

The truth is to be faced.
Recovery from secrets that deceived children in families must be brought to light for healing.

I am the Divine Healer.
I give you the Eucharist.
I am truly present in My Divinity and humanity at Mass.

People have been called in Shepherds of Christ to come together and to pray together for this healing.

I healed the lepers.
Look at the leprosy of sin.

I am Jesus, The Divine Healer.

I give you a sharing in Divine Life in Baptism.

I live in the graced baptized soul.
A person has a free will and can choose to do what God asks under obedience or disobey and rebel against God's will.

Sin enslaves a man.
I give you the sacrament of confession.

I give you the Mass.
I am the Savior.

Song: A Song from Jesus

 

Jesus: Holiness is about conquering temptation.
Addicted to misery.
Addicted to secrets.
Addicted to power.

I give you Myself in the Eucharist - a man that is Godly is a man who has joy in His Heart.
In the Old Testament
The Jews were taken as slaves.

God promised he would not abandon them.
50 years later the Babylonians were conquered by the Persians.

The Jews could go back home.

There land was torn up.

Man in salvation history has rebelled against God.
God is the Creator of man and man is the creature.
God makes the rules.

It is a foolish man who says nobody tells me what to do and tries to live independent and empowered over everything.
Only a fool would turn away from the Creator and try to be above God and His commands.

The devil tempt men in sin to try to turn right to wrong and wrong to right

The core of sin is independence from God.

Man wants to make decisions independent of God.
Man gives free consent to the temptations of satan when he does this.
Sin becomes habitual to the man who is not examining his conscience.

Because sin entered the world, harmony was disrupted.

Man sees himself distortedly not through the eyes of God when he habitually sins.

The more man habitually sins and does not tell himself the truth about his sin the further he goes from God.

Man has a distorted image of God and others and the more he sins the more distorted his image of God and others becomes.

Man when he sins likes himself more than God.

The devil works in relationships.
God gives order in structure.
Men are to be obedient to God, obedient to just authority.

Men are to observe the authority put by God.
This obedience brings order and harmony.

Satan wants men to live in pride - seeking dominance and power for oneself over authority.


 

Isaiah 5: 20

Woe to those who call what is bad, good, 
    and what is good, bad, 
who substitute darkness for light 
    and light for darkness, 
who substitute bitter for sweet 
    and sweet for bitter.

 

Jesus: There is tension between those who seek to disobey those over them.
Satan wants to disrupt order and harmony.
Satan works in secrets.

We are here to advance in the spiritual life.
We have only one life to live.
Every day is a gift.
We have been commanded to love and serve the Lord.

Our lives are to be lived to love God and love others as ourselves.


 

The Our Father

    Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
 
 

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)

 

 

October 13, 1994

The Birth of the Full Ministries
of the Shepherds of Christ

    "I wish to share with you part of a message which Jesus gave us on October 13, 1994. The message tells us about the expansion of the Shepherds of Christ movement:

    'My beloved priest-companion, today I come to you with another mission. I am asking you to establish Shepherds of Christ Ministries. At My request you have already begun the priestly newsletter, "Shepherds of Christ", and the prayer chapters, Shepherds of Christ Associates...

    'I am giving you this message on this day, the 77th Anniversary of the Great Apparition at Fatima, because of the close connection between the Shepherds of Christ movement and the Fatima message. The Fatima message is centered in devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart, especially in consecration to Our Hearts. Shepherds of Christ Ministries is also centered in devotion to Our Hearts. I will use Shepherds of Christ Ministries as a great instrument in helping to bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. When this occurs, My Church and the world will be experiencing the great era of peace promised by My Mother at Fatima.

    'Today, then, October 13, 1994, the 77th Anniversary of the Great Apparition at Fatima, marks the birth of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I pour forth the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock.'

    "Jesus has told us that Shepherds of Christ Ministries includes: the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, Shepherds of Christ Associates prayer chapters, various publications, including books, whatever else Our Lord directs us to undertake.

    "As members of Shepherds of Christ Associates, you are an extremely important part of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. You have given great joy to the Heart of Jesus by responding to His invitation to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. As He draws you closer to His Heart and to His Mother's Heart as Associates members, He will fill you with an ever-increasing experience of His love, peace, and joy."

- From In the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, Newsletter of Shepherds of Christ Associates
by Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J., Volume 1, No. 1, 1995. p. 2.

     

  

Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus

My dear fellow Associate Members,

Jesus is calling special apostles to join a new division of the Shepherds of Christ Movement. Here is a message from Jesus given to Father Carter:

    My beloved priest-companion, I am requesting that a new prayer movement be started under the direction of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I am asking for volunteers who are willing to pray before the Blessed Sacrament for one hour, twice-weekly. Members of the Shepherds of Christ prayer chapters, as well as others, are to be invited to join this movement.

    These apostles are to pray for the intentions I am giving you. For part of the hour they are to use the prayers of the Shepherds of Christ Associates Handbook. They may spend the rest of the hour as they so choose.

    I will use this new prayer movement within My Shepherds of Christ Ministries in a powerful way to help in the renewal of My Church and the world. I will give great graces to those who join this movement. The name, Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, is to be given to this movement.

    I am inviting My beloved Rita Ring to be coordinator for this activity.

    I pour out the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock.

    This is indeed a special calling for us to unite in one heart with His Eucharistic Heart and pray for the following intentions:

    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

 
 

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.

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.

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.

  1. 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.'

  2. 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.

  3. 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.'

  4. 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.

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

 

 

 God's Blue Books

 
 

 

 

May 5, 2015 Rosary
 Clearwater, Florida

live - transcribed from a tape

R. For faith, hope and charity.

R. I'm just going to do a few excerpts until They tell me to do something different, but this is from some excerpts out of the June 8th rosary of 1997 in Blue Book 15. It was said at the Morrow Center.

 

The Resurrection

R. Did you say the Our Father?

1. From Blue Book 15 - June 8, 1997

R. And so we pray for wider vision for the victory has been won. For the Lord came forth from the tomb victorious and we share in abundance in His Divine life. For we have been baptized and He has given to us this sharing in His life. So why are we afraid? Where is our mind at this moment? Are we so fixed on the moment that we miss the big picture that He wishes to unveil to us. Let us pray to see the vision of the Father. Let us see the events of Adam and Eve and the willfulness in the garden. And let us see in the last book of Revelation where He speaks of what He will do on this earth. That the lady clothed as the sun will come with the moon under her feet, that she will shine, Our Lady of Light, and bring forth the children into the light. Let us see the whole Bible. Think of the Bible, the Word of God. And the more that we know God the more that we are rooted in the truth, that we want to know the Word of God, we seek to know God. Know the Bible beginning to the end. Let us pray in this rosary for the grace to see with wider vision, to not be so focused as we are on the moments at hand, but to see His Divine Plan. To be one in our hearts with God. To be one with each other. To see that the plan of the Father is unfolding here. To see the events of Adam and Eve, their willfulness. To see God is displeased with the creatures of this earth. That He has called us, this small core group, to go into this world and to tell them that they must stop offending God. What God wants from us is obedience. God wants reparation for the sins that we have committed. God wants us to tell Him we are sorry for our sins. God wants us to recognize that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist, truly present in His Divinity and humanity. We indeed are a sinful, willful race. And the Father has said that He wishes us over and over again to read these two messages in January for they are filled with information that He is giving to us for the unfolding of His plan. We are the shepherds that He has called to help carry the light into the dark world.

R. And so too, we must see with a wider vision. Constantly, keeping our vision to this wider vision to see ourselves truly in this picture for we must operate according to His plan. The devil gets us focused on ourselves. See the big picture, the Plan of God the Father.

And He speaks: I am without a beginning and without an end. I am the almighty God. I have called you. I have called you by name, My chosen shepherds to help carry this light into the darkness. Do not be concerned with the distractions in your life. Move fearlessly ahead for you have been chosen and I am giving you the most abundant grace to proceed in all of the sufferings. You will proceed ahead if you keep your focus on Me.

2. From Blue Book 15 - June 8, 1997

Jesus: Are you afraid? Are you scared? Are you tired?

R. The Father has a plan and His plan will unfold. We see Adam and Eve in the garden and we see that they were told not to pick from the tree. And they disobeyed. We know that God is displeased at their disobedience. And so the light is dimmed. We see today the willfulness of men and we see as the Father speaks. The Father speaks on January 18th. These two messages are so filled with so much. What He is really saying to us, if we keep our focus on this, on the All Night Message, if we keep our focus on the wider vision we will hear what He is saying. God is God – God is the same God Adam and Eve disobeyed. It is the same God that speaks to us, the same God that we are communicating with. Mary said “yes” to the angel – “yes” to God the Father. It is the same God, Jesus Christ, the Son of Man that said when He died on the cross that He did the will of the Father even to His death on the cross. The message is to comply to the will of God. Adam and Eve sinned. Jesus is the New Adam. Mary is the New Eve. Mary stood beneath the cross. She said, “yes”. Jesus said, thy will be done when He died on the cross

3. From Blue Book 15 - June 8, 1997

R. We live the life, death and resurrection of Christ in our lives. We live out the mystery of Christ in our life.

We see how the mysteries of the rosary unfold in our life. We receive a sharing in His life in baptism. But we must follow the commandments of God. This is what He has told us. The first commandment is “I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt not have any gods before Me.”

4. From Blue Book 15 - June 8, 1997

R. Jesus has made it so clear to me many people complain about the one hour that they spend with Him a week at Mass. And this morning, this is what He said, “One hour, one hour and they complain but the first commandment commands that they put Me first in their lives.” What are our gods? He spoke very much this morning about the football and how it can become a god to us. How our television can be our god. And He showed us in the Falmouth Flood how unimportant our televisions are as they float down the river, for He has all the power. And we hear Him speak, “I am God. You see the little individual events in your life as so important.” And then He has showed us that He can get our attention if we do not answer to the gifts He gives. We must pray as He has asked us to pray. What happens to our gods, our televisions, whatever it is? It could float down the river as it did in a flood. This is an example of the events that can happen.

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5. Jesus: And I call you to be witnesses before men. And satan wants you to be selfish, to close down, to tell yourself, it's okay to treat others without the love, that I have called you to give in this world. I want you to spread the Good News that men will know that I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and the Good News is, that I am here and that I am truly present with you in the Eucharist. How abundantly I outpour My grace to you, My chosen ones, and you do not even know, nor do you fathom the love of My Sacred Heart, but I come to you, and I cry to you this night, that there are so many souls, that before the end of this rosary will lose their souls for all eternity. Open wide your hearts and pray, for the souls at this moment on the edge of death. I gave My life for them. Will you give you heart and pray for souls that need your prayers now?

6. Jesus: And you go out of your house and you see that there is a full moon, and you say, 'Wow, is that a full moon!' Is that a full moon? Are those stars in the sky? Does the sun shine so brightly that you cannot even see? Does the sky look so vast and the ocean so wide and beyond any limits? My people, how blind indeed you are, for your vision is so limited. You do not see your brother starving to death. Nor do you see the anger in your own hearts, the division, the lack of love in praying as I have asked you to pray, for your world is suffering. The Body of Christ is suffering, and you, as members as the body of Christ, suffer, too, because they are suffering so much.

7. Jesus: Whip the silly grin off of your face and realize, that the devils are there at every moment, celebrating those that oppose the Plan of the Father. And how it tears at the hearts of the children, many little ones, killed in abortion, and then telling themselves what is wrong is right.

8. Jesus: If you want a solution to the world's problems, come to Me. For they have made money their god, they have made themselves their god, they have prided themselves and made their pride their god, their envy their god, their jealousy their god; and satan fuels the fire in their hearts, that is filled with vengeance and remorse. Oh My people, My people, it is only in God, that you will find relief. Listen to Me.

9. Hail Mary
10. Hail Mary

 

R. I want to pray for Dan, and pray for Jimmy, pray for all the people I promised to pray for, a lot of women friends' husbands, are either dead or sick that are my age, and that's how it is, the older we get the more we see our friends around us, some of them die and then all of a sudden - like Fr. Ken came today, he's in his eighties. My brother said that, how many very dear friends die and we miss them. And so we really want to listen to the message that Jesus gave to us tonight. You must really have this goal fixed in your heart at every moment, the goal of moving on to that heavenly home, and asking God to help us, to attain that goal, which is heaven. We are to live our lives helping in the work of redemption. It is, how we are with Him in our hearts, that will make the difference, that can affect so many souls, Jesus and Mary both said today, souls are on the edge of death. Many will lose their souls for all eternity, and so we want to pray for them, and all the intentions, yours, mine, the Church, the priests, the hierarchy, all we promised to pray for, and all that have asked us to pray for them. Amen. Did you say Amen?

 

                The Ascension

1. Excerpt from Blue Book 15 - June 8, 1997

R. Think of the world today and think of how they are disobeying the ten commandments.

The first one is: I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me.

The second one is: You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain.

The third one is: Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.

And then we read the messages from the Father and He says that we are a sinful race. He gives to us ten commandments to follow. Are we following the commands? They are not suggestions, they are commandments that He gives to us to follow.

2. R. Moses went up the mountain to get ten commandments and when he came down they were worshipping the false gods.

Reference: Exodus 31: 12-18

3. R. Moses came down from the mountain and he was up there awhile. And when he came down he saw the people and they were dancing and worshipping false gods. With that Moses’ wrath flared up so that he threw the tablets down and he broke them.

4. R. I go to the Exposed Eucharist every Tuesday at All Saints. And I have seen the altar adorned in the greatest light. And there is this celestial aura and I feel the presence of God burn within me and I cry from the awe of it all. I know the presence of the Almighty God profoundly. And to see what I see, all these things happen to the altar and God is there. And this is where I had two of the great visions. The Almighty God is truly present in the Eucharist. And there are maybe one, maybe two, maybe three people in the church.

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May 5, 2015 continues

R. I had to bring this in because 18 years ago, I was worrying about the people drinking beer at the festival. This was in 1997 in Blue Book 15. I mean, that almost sounds like a joke right now, because the world has gotten so awful, and that's why it is important that it is in here. So I am saying – The world is different than the world 18 years ago – we must turn to God and PRAY – Listen to His directions.
 

Excerpt from June 8, 1997 continues

R. And there are maybe one, maybe two, maybe three people in the church, but with the festival, so many outside. So many to run to the football games on Sunday with no care of the money for the tickets, or no care of anything. How is it in the lives of so many today? What does the first commandment say to us? ‘I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me.’ And then He speaks about stealing. What about stealing the time that God has given to us that His plan will unfold. What about the money that we have and that we make that we do not share and that we do not give to God. Are we following the ten commandments? What is this? God is speaking to us to you and to me. We are the ones that He is speaking to. Everything that He speaks is written in the Bible, but we are looked at and we are criticized for talking about Jesus in the Eucharist and the Mass and the rosary and the commandments.

5. Excerpt from June 8, 1997 continues

 R. Mary is speaking about the first commandment that is being violated immensely. I cannot even get the messages of God the Father out. There has been great opposition especially to these messages of God the Father and the obedience is the thing that they are objecting to the most.

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May 5, 2015 continues

R. It's funny how they hated that word 'obedience'. We must obey God's will.

 

Excerpt from June 8, 1997 continues

R. This is the thing that God wants. The whole thing is that we must obey the will of God. This is the thing. What about parents and children? How is the obedience as far as children obeying their parents. They are told by the television not to obey their parents. They are told by the movies. They are told by the video games that they must think of themselves and do what they want. And the fourth commandment. Where is the fourth commandment? For the children, for the children are being taught. And this is what Mary cried out for all those months when she appeared everyday. Her beloved children and how their minds are being poisoned. We are the anecdote for the poison but really we are being mistaken for the poison.

6. R. On March 27th, the message of God the Father said, “that the sufferings would be lessened and or averted if we did the prayers in the prayer manual and spread the Priestly Newsletter.” And it is with great fear that I deliver these messages because I sit back and I get them and I shake inside after I get the messages. And the thing of it is, is it’s like we are accountable if we are not delivering the messages. The message is this that we need to try to get especially this Falmouth message out to the earth, that people will respond. For it is indeed a warning and it’s important that they hear the warning and its up to us to try to circulate this.

7. R. How was it at your Mass today? I can tell you how it was at my Mass. The Mass was packed. There were so many people there and there was a choir there and they were singing and they were celebrating two teachers that had taught there many many years. The whole Church was very big and it was very packed but there was nothing from the heart that I felt in the Mass. Even the choir. The music was stiff and the words spoken were hard. They were disconnected and they were not in one heart as Our Lord wants us to be. It is through these messages that the people will turn to great love for God, that the Churches will be united in one mind and one heart. The more that we do what He asks us to do, it will help bring about the Reign of the Sacred Heart. It is majorly a task that God the Father has given to us but though we are small in number it is through His Might and through our prayers that this task will be accomplished. There is nothing to fear for He says, “I am.” He is God. We are the ones that suffer at this moment at that moment. The devil presses on us. The devil is smart – he is crafty – he has tested people for centuries. He tempts our weakest point and tries to work us up. The picture that is on the Mary card that Mary asked me to make is a picture that was covered with an immense mist of Mary that I see when she appears. Its a vision that is so hard to even reproduce when somebody takes a picture of it. But the picture there which shows her face is not the same as the face on the other. So too, with the mist video. That mist video was a great gift. We must thank God for the gifts that He has given. Our Lady of Clearwater is a gift. These are great gifts that we are given in these writings and you know yourself that they have drawn you closer to the Heart of Jesus. You know what the Mass means to you. We must be so thankful to God. This is what God wants. He wants our love. God wants our thankfulness. God wants our courage to stand out there when the whole world seems like it is different than we are but to realize that God has given to us the anecdote for the poison and to be strong for we are the soldiers, we are the apostles, we are the ones that He called out to and He said, “I am alive. I am alive. I am alive, on Ascension Thursday and I am treated like a dead object.”

8. R. And so there is fear in our hearts many times for we are standing out there and we are alone. I can be in a church with a thousand people and a thousand people are not in the Shepherds of Christ Movement. They do not have the same mission that I have to accomplish. I must do whatever it is that He has asked me to do. One thing to do when I am in the church and there are a thousand people in there is to consecrate that Church to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. To place all the people in that church in the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. To ask God to help join them in this oneness. The Sacred Heart of Jesus will Reign. This is what we can do in every setting in our work places, wherever we are, to consecrate the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. We want Jesus alive in our hearts. We are to pray for great graces to be released. We pray for the priest, as he is speaking. We pray for Masses with heartfelt love. We pray for lectors and people at Mass. We pray for the consecration of men’s hearts in Church to Jesus. So they are one in Jesus’ Heart, not stiff and heartless. We pray the love of Jesus radiates from our voice, our face, our hands, our gestures. We pray for the love of Jesus in the hearts of the priests.

9. R. It is not words spoken that we throw at Jesus. It is a love affair that God wants with man. He created us to love Him and to love each other. And He speaks, “I am alive, I am alive, I am alive. Tell them Rita, tell them.” And He let me suffer, immense suffering on Ascension Thursday. This was to carry the message to the world. You all know how you experience the depth of the love of the Heart of Jesus. And it is what propels us to go forward in the face of opposition, in the face of persecution. Jesus is God. And it is from our hearts that we speak and we want people to know Jesus, not be stiff, not focused on self, to focus on the Word of God, not ourselves.

Jesus: The emphasis must be on the love of God. This My beloved ones is your mission. I am Jesus. I am calling you to carry the messages of My Heart to this world. Each one of you go to Mass every Sunday and you see the faithful get up and leave. I am longing and I am waiting for love from my faithful ones, for I give them Myself and they do not treasure the great gift that I have given to you.

R. We must spread these messages, Father’s newsletter, the prayer chapters, spread devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. We must see with the wide vision that the Father wants us to see with. We cannot be focused on the things that satan makes to try to divide us and avert us off our course. For souls are being lost as Mary said, day after day after day. Let our hearts be alive with the love of Jesus. Pray for the Reign of the Sacred Heart in men’s hearts.

10. Jesus: You must not get discouraged. I need you to do this work. They persecuted Me, they mocked Me, they tore My flesh, and what had I done. You must obey Me even if you do not want to. OBEY GOD! If others try to stop you - block you – they are blocking Me. Do not ever underestimate the order of obedience. You must do My will. Listen to your heart and obey Me always. Your heart will gnaw at you until you obey. Take care of yourself and obey My will. You must always obey Me. You are given letters and directions from Me. I am Jesus, the Son of God – Listen to Me. You are My messenger here. You are being told what to do by God. If you do not obey Me, you do not feel good. You obey as I command you. Always obey your superiors. I am Jesus, the Son of God. This is not a myth. I am truly speaking to you. I will protect you child. Surrender to Me. You must realize that the very hairs of your head are numbered. Accept all your discomforts and learn the lessons I so sweetly teach you, sufferings I allow. I ardently love you.

R. Today is just so clear that Adam and Eve committed this sin against His will. And that they ate of this fruit of this tree. Jesus Christ is the New Adam. The Son of God is truly present in the Blessed Sacrament. We’ve got these golden calves that we’re worrying all about. The first focus is not on God, but is on all these other things.

R. And so He ascended into heaven and He gives us this: I will be with you, that is My promise.

The prayers in the prayer manual are so important, our prayers are so important. God gives us the Mass. Wow! God gives us the Bread of Life – the Scriptures, the Eucharist.

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                The Descent of the Holy Spirit Upon the Apostles and the Blessed Virgin Mary

1. Jesus: I call you to work more and more diligently in publishing the Blue Book 15.

2. R. He told me this morning that the Shepherds of Christ is like a factory, that was being built, and it's not ready for the workers to come in, that we still have much to accomplish, before we begin the work with all the people, to help renew the Church and the world. And He said that if you were given a high-rise, you wouldn't move somebody into the top floor, before it was completed. So why do we not see, that even in this building, as God calls us, in a special way, the chosen ones, to be here, that we must judge, what God is telling us, not by what the people are doing, but obey Jesus. Many, may not be called today, but after the factory is finished, many will come.

3. Jesus: Are you tired? Are you anxious? Are you angry? How do you feel? And when you feel this way or that way, do you decide from your feelings, whether or not, you will do certain things? So if a man feels that he should go sock another man in the face, it's just fine and dandy for him to do so, because his feelings are his god. Another may decide to play a trick on somebody that is doing nothing wrong, because he feels that way. You can't judge your actions without right reason, based on your feelings only. Is it a habit of trying to coerce others, or retaliate against them, because you disobeyed to begin with. Is that right, that they go and punish when they were the ones, that were wrong to start with? How is it in your life? Is the Holy Sprit the one that is on duty, 24 hours a day, that is guiding you, because the Holy Spirit is God, and He is the third Person of the Holy Trinity? Are you the one that guides, picking and throwing away, whatever you don't want, not even consulting God, because you do it your way?

4. Jesus: I am Jesus, and I have taught you and taught you and taught you, and like the lepers, so few ever come and say thank You, God, for the gift.

5. Jesus: And some punish to block the Plan of the Heavenly Father, for it is the evil one that opposes the plan of God. And when you listen to the evil one it becomes more and more to your detriment, when you listen to him and you do as the devil advises. Have you not learned anything from the Garden of Eden, how Eve too, suffered, for listening to satan in the garden. I am Jesus. I am warning you, that you will suffer, when you turn away from Me.

6. Jesus: And I come to you today, and I outpour to you My abundant grace. Are you open? Or are you ready to close the door, because really you don't want to change. Who can change your heart? Nobody can change your heart but yourself. You have a free will to do God's will or serve yourself and satan.

7. Jesus: Satan plays tricks on people when they keep giving into him, and giving into him. For satan is a trickster – the evil man has the biggest trick on himself !

8. Jesus: Stay awake, be aware of the cunning tricks that he comes, to manipulate with.

9. Song: A Song from Jesus

10. God the Father: I am God the Father, and I put the Virgin Mary on this building, for you. It is My Plan that will unfold if you do not oppose My Plan. Why do you oppose Me?

 

In My house, Jesus says, there are many mansions, and I am preparing a place for those who live their lives, in service and obedience to God.

 

The Assumption

1. Sing: Ave Ave Maria

2. R. Mary was taken into heaven, body and soul.

3. R. Happy Mother's Day, Mary!

4. Mary: I am your Heavenly Mother, and I come to you tonight to deliver this message, on May the 5th. You were given on May the 5th of 1995, 20 years ago, a message of Consecrating the Homes to the Sacred Heart and to the Immaculate Heart. It was a very important message, 20 years ago. You are to put this on the internet at the beginning of today's daily message and tell men to study, to read it and to obey, for their own good to obey. Tonight there are so many souls that will be lost. Pray fervently in this rosary for the souls now, on the edge of death. I am your Heavenly Mother. My children will be lost, many of them.

5. Mary: May is my month, and June is the month of my Son's Sacred Heart. Every day as you arise, think of how important it is, to me your Mother, that I have told you, I want you to focus on my love for you, this month of May, my love for my children, that will be lost, and I am asking you to pray every day, in May, for the souls on the edge of death.

6. Mary: All through the day, to keep that in your mind, in your heart, for they are your brothers and sisters. Think of how you would be at that moment, for the devil presses down at that moment and wants to take them home to him. But your prayers are so important for the souls on the edge of death – my children, my children, my children, I love.

7. Mary: In the month of the Sacred Heart, you are to awaken everyday and to remember this message, from Mary, your Heavenly Mother, that Jesus loves you so much. That is why God the Father has allowed me to appear all these years, and in this building, that the souls of the earth will know this reality, of the love of the Heart of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. And so every day as you awake, be excited, for it is a day in the month of the Sacred Heart, and know that there may be sufferings in your life, in this month, for there are many souls that ignore Jesus, that treat Him with such disrespect, that are ungodly, and they hurt their brothers on purpose. Jesus is love my children. Jesus has a Heart on-fire for love of you. There is not any reason in your lives why you would not realize how much love He has for you, that you will be filled as a source of love, to be able to give love to others.

    But I have this question to ask you, as your Heavenly Mother. You are now approaching a well, and you are thirsty, for you have not any water to drink, for a long time. And you look into the well, and the well is dry. How much water will you be able to retrieve from the dry well? Well, you say, 'Mother Mary, none'. And I say to you, the more that you focus on other things, and do not listen to this message, of how much Jesus truly loves you, in the messages that He has given, His letters of love, in the message that I tell you today, to focus on, every day of the month of the Sacred Heart, the more that you too will be that big dry well. And when the devils from hell come to you, and they tell you how jealous and envious that you should be, how you should be prideful and selfish, you will fall for their games, and not give the love that Jesus wants of you. Are you the empty well?

    Are you the well that is reading the message, from December 17th of 1991, 5 years before I appeared on this building, Jesus showed His Sacred Heart, on-fire, opened wide, white with the white heat of His love, burning like a furnace, for the love of souls. And 24 years later, how have you meditated on this vision, so that you too will be a source of love? Or have you listened to satan, who wants you to be the empty well, to sit on your pity-pot and be selfish, when souls are at stake? Jesus loved to His death on the cross. He gave, He gave, He gave the last beat of His Heart and the last drop of His blood, for the souls that you are to pray for, that you are to love, that you have been called by me, your Heavenly Mother and by the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to spread this devotion – this devotion, that men will know the love of Our Two Hearts, and give their hearts to Our Loving Hearts. Why would you be the empty well, to give no water to your own self and to the others, that are parched as a dry desert, longing to be watered by the Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus.

8. Hail Mary
9. Hail Mary
10. Hail Mary

 

Mary is Crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth

1. Mary: If the Queen of this earth were to come to my building now, and if it was broadcast and spread throughout the world, how many people would come from afar, that they could be in the presence of a Queen? My beloved children, I am Mary your Mother, Queen of Heaven and of Earth, and I appeared on this building for 7 1/2 years, and appeared to you this day. Where are your hearts? Where are your minds? Are they seeking the spiritual gifts that God has given and thanking Him? Or are they listening to satan, that plays the negative tapes, that will get you focused on your past, on things that never worked to begin with, to replay over and over again,  negative tapes – satan knows the exact temptation, so that you will be tempted to fall, so that he can press on you, and he doesn't let up. You need to realize how strong satan's grip is in this world, and how he knows exactly what to use, to lure you, like Eve, in the garden.

2. Mary: I am Mary, Queen of Heaven and Earth.

3. Mary: What is your goal? Have you decided how important the goal, that Jesus told you about, was? Or do you just want to have it in the back of your mind, so that every day you can taste the senseless pleasures, as if the day, the last day that you are on this earth, will never come? If you do not focus on your goal, you are foolish in your behavior.

4. Mary: The factory is being built. The pillars are being put in place. The books are the Mighty Medicine, and you say, 'Well Mary, who is here?' And I say, distractions – distractions could be sent to you, but God wants the Blue Books published.

5. Mary: You are given the statues and the waters, and the statues need to be in every home. You must realize that I am telling you this, and tell them to pray the prayers. The statues in the home are really important, let me tell you as your Heavenly Mother, as Queen of Heaven and Earth, and that the waters bring healing to those who use them. Do not ever under-estimate these gifts, God the Father has given to the earth, from Clearwater. I am Our Lady of Light, Our Lady of the Universe. I am Queen of Heaven and Earth. I am the Lady Clothed with the Sun.

6. Mary: May is my month, and June is the month of my Son's Sacred Heart. Do not waste these days.

R. Dear Heavenly Mother, we pray for all the souls at this moment, on the edge of death, and we ask you to help us to focus all through May, all through the day, on our brothers and sisters, that are dying now, at the edge of death, and that souls would pray for us too, when we are on the edge of death. And that we do not overlook the fact, that someday, we too, will be on the edge of death, that we have a goal, and the goal is to see God face to face for all eternity. Amen.

7. Sing: Ave Maria gratia plena

8. Mary: As your Heavenly Mother, I have this to say to you. Many are so foolish in their ways, for they have been given so many tremendous gifts from God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, and they do not even show any gratitude for the gifts that they have been given. And when the well is dry, will they be so sorry, for the gifts that they once had, that they were too busy, to even recognize, or to say thank you for. Great gifts have been given, but ignorance, rejection, nastiness, have been given back in return, offending your God. Do not look the gifts that God has given to you, as if they are nothing. That offends God greatly. Where would you be if God took the gifts that He is giving to you, away from you today? If there are things that you know God is giving to you, as great gifts, why aren't you thankful in expressing to Him, your gratitude? Cold and dry hearts, empty wells, these are not like the Heart of Jesus. Meditate on the vision of December 17th, 1991 and put this too, on today's daily message, about that vision, besides May the 5th of 1995, the message 20 years ago.

    I am your Heavenly Mother. What We tell you to do, take seriously. Why do you think I have appeared as I did here in Clearwater, so that you could ignore me, as they ignored the message from the angel, that said, 'Pray for those who do not believe, do not hope and do not love thee'. And since they did not have that wide vision, look at what happened with World War II. They did not pray for the people. They thought, oh, isn't that nice. And they paid no attention, to really apply those messages as a rigorous part of their life, and there was the great war, the World War II, in which almost 66,000,000 people were killed. Listen. This is a message. Listen.

9. Hail Mary
10. Hail Mary

 

Hail Holy Queen

The Memorare

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

 

 

 

For the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes and Lent

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Blue Book 14

One of the following DVD

Picture of Our Lady of Clearwater  4X 6

Prayer Brochure

 

 

 

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The more you use the Blue Books and
    become one with Jesus – more
    intimate with Jesus –
    the more your lives are a blessing and
    everything you do in life can help
    to bring down great grace for the world
    because of your being so
    one with Jesus.

 

Guiding Light Homily Book Series

Fr. Joe’s Books


Cycle A –
Steadfast to the Son


Cycle B –
Focusing on the Word


Cycle C –
Feed My Soul

 
Cycle A – 
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These books can be given to:

1) All Priests

       2) Good for Music Ministers
       3) Good for DRE's
       4) Good for Deacons
       5) Good for Principals of Schools
       6) Good for Teachers
       7) Good for Mom and Dads

     

     
Give the gift that keeps giving!!

This statue was handmade and hand-painted
and has a little piece of the glass
from the image face of Mary –

PV-Fatima
w/glass - 27
 		PV-Fatima
w/glass - 18
 		PV-Fatima
w/glass - 15
 		OL-Fatima
w/glass - 18
 		PV-Fatima
w/glass - 12
 		OL-Fatima
w/glass - 11
OL-Guadalupe
w/glass - 28

OL-Grace
w/glass - 24

OL-Mt. Carmel
w/glass - 24

OL-Lourdes
w/glass - 24
 

IH-Mary
w/glass - 24

IH-Ivory
w/glass - 24

SH-Jesus
w/glass - 24
 		SH-Blessing
w/glass - 24
 		Sorrow M
w/glass - 24
 		Inf.-Prague
w/glass - 24

OL-Lourdes
w/glass - 18

OL-Mt. Carmel
w/glass - 18

I Heart
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I Heart - Ivory
w/glass - 18

OL-Grace
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 SH-Jesus
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We cannot get these statues any more –
the men making them were from
Portugal and no longer do so

We will have a limited number
until they are gone –

These statues are a treasure, a work of art

At the end of this message are healings
from statues and the Jesus
and Mary waters – 

   

   

 

                Given March 21, 2014

                R. Pray for These Things

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

 

 

We need money for
Fr. Joe's new homily book
(we sent almost 40,000 to priests,
cardinals, bishops)
Can you please help us?
888-211-3041

    
 

 The Wedding Rosary 

Crystal Image Rosary

$40 plus shipping

 

Original Image Rosary

8mm glass beads
in a matching gift box

$40 plus shipping

 

 

Special Sale Statues with image glass

 

15" Pilgrim Virgin Fatima – $85

12" Our Lady of Fatima – $75

 plus shipping
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Also we are ready to print
5000 copies of the
Parents and Children's Rosary Book
in SPANISH.
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Give the gift that counts.

                Give to your priests Fr. Carter's Books plus postage.

Tell My People                    $5.00
Response to God's Love    $8.00
Response in Christ              $8.00

      

 

Old Mass Books with the Imprimatur 
$2.00 plus postage

New Mass Book with Imprimatur   
$8.00 plus postage

New Parents & Children's Book with the Imprimatur
$8.00 plus postage

Fr. Joe's Cycle A – Steadfast to the Sun – Starts in Advent
$5.00 plus postage

Give the gift that keeps on giving!

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Fr. Carter's Priestly Newsletters Book II
$6.00 plus postage

     

Special sale statue with glass

27" Statue of Our Lady of Fatima
$175 plus postage

 

Get a canvas print of Mary's image
with a sliver of glass and a little
bottle of Jesus and Mary water.
The glass will be fixed behind the
back of the picture.
$200.00 plus postage

Dan called and gave the report to me, when I hung up I saw this rainbow and took a picture for him.

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