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Mary's messages from May 5, 2015 Pray the Shepherds of Christ prayers for the priests and the renewal of the Church and the world Jesus gave Fr. Carter 21 Years ago.

This is Mary's message as she appeared May 5th, 2015 in Clearwater

Also Mary's message May 5th, 2015 at night

May 5, 2015 - Afternoon Rosary

The Coronation

1. Mary: I am Mary your Mother. I am the Lady of Light. Jesus knows the intimate secrets of your heart. He is offended when He is calling you to listen to Him, and you turn away and do not obey His request. I am the Handmaid of the Lord. God has called certain people to help you, and He has given to them the ware with to be able to do that. How is it that when God calls, that another would oppose the very thing, that the Father is asking for, as if you believe that God does not know, what actions and thoughts and ways you have blocked the plan. I have appeared here for 19 years, that souls will know my Son Jesus, that they will know His love. I have cried out and begged, I have spoken to you. He has outpoured His grace and given so many gifts to the Shepherds of Christ Movement, and the devil wants to block the plan of my Son, Jesus. For this is the Movement of your Heavenly Father. Your Heavenly Father allowed me to appear all these years, to bring this message to the earth, that men's hearts will know the love of God, and that they will work with one another, that they will work in unity, that they will serve God and help to build the Kingdom. In all the years of spreading the consecrations since I appeared in this building, and the Shepherds of Christ received the building, 1998, spreading the consecrations, spreading the Nursing Home books, starting the prayer chapters, Jesus knows every thought in your heart.

2. Mary: I have appeared as Our Lady of Light, here, for God is all powerful. He created all men. He created the world. He created the fish of the sea and the animals that walked the earth. He made the waters, and the sun, and all there is. Do you not know the power of God? For the old Eve thought that she could be equal to God, and her sin was the sin of great pride. Today there are many men of great pride, that oppose the Heavenly Father and my Son Jesus, who has called you to send this message to the world. Today there are so many souls that will be lost to everlasting damnation, because of their sins, their mortal sins, because of their lives. Jesus died so that men could go to heaven, and they threw away that grace. They threw away all of the promptings and love, that were on their path. Heaven is forever. Hell is forever. Today, so many souls will be lost. I am Mary, your Heavenly Mother.

3. Mary: I appear in magnificent light, in beauty that you will know a little of the glory that awaits those who love and serve the Lord. I appear here in my building in Clearwater, with such light and beauty. I am Our Lady of Fatima in the Americas.

4. Mary: God the Father has allowed me to appear here, in this building in Clearwater, to spread this mission to the world, to spread the messages of the love of my Son Jesus, to spread the consecration to the little children, to the families, to the nursing homes, to the priests, to the sisters, to the Churches, and to the schools. God has called you a chosen one, to be vibrant and filled with the love of God, and energy, to know that He has called you to spread this mission to the earth, to spread the prayers of Jesus, which can enormously help the families and the Churches to be united, to pray for the priests and the world. God has called you to spread the Priestly Writing. It has been given to you with such gifts. It is not because you own the Priestly Writing. It is because it is a gift from God, and for this, you are to be thankful, to worship God, to adore Him, to honor Him. God has called these fifths, opposition to the 5th does not please Him.

6. Mary: My child, you will never know how much God loves you, who has given so many graces, to so many that refuse the grace He has given. How it offends my Son Jesus, and your Heavenly Father, when such gifts have been given and have been treated so irreverently, by those that He has bestowed so many talents and blessings. Oh my child, I pray for these children, that have been called to be leaders, but have given into the evil one and not given as God has called them too.

    The Eucharist in China is such a tremendous gift, that you have been given with the 24 hours of adoration. The Eucharist in China is to be adored and worshipped and loved. Others are to be encouraged to come and to pray there because of the tremendous graces, as are those that have been chosen by me to come to my building in Florida, for tremendous blessings have been given. And to those that take the statues into their homes with the glass, they will receive special blessings, when they pray the prayers of the Shepherds of Christ prayers from the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, who promises to take them ever deeper into His Heart, and into my heart. As your Heavenly Mother, I ask you, pray with all your heart, my child, pray with all your heart.

7. Mary: And the night was black, but the day was filled with light, and the night came again, and the day came with it's bright sunlight, and yet to those that are deep in sin, that oppose the will of the Father, rather than seeking it, your days are dark and dismal, and the anger within their hearts, mounts, years upon years upon years, from opposing such a beautiful gift given by God, a calling to be filled with a heart of love. But the more that souls give into satan, the more they are blinded in their ways. And in that opposition satan comes with his legion of devils to tempt them, to trick them – to trick them, and they listen, because their thoughts were not the thoughts of the heart that is rooted in the plan of the Father, which is the plan of love of God and love of one another. But it is the plan of working your own plan, the plan of doing the same old, same old, that never worked years ago, and they use as a trophy, before the Lord. And they do not serve Him, but they smite Him, and hurt others. Blindness is a sad, sad thing. I am your Heavenly Mother, the Mother of Light, the Mother of Love, the Mother of Humility.

May 5, 2015 - 6:20pm Rosary

The Assumption

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.

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.

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.

end of May 5, 2015 messages

R. We pray for those who fought in wars for our country and lost their lives.

We thank men who suffered for us so we could have the freedom we have in this country.

We pray for those men who died and gave their lives in fighting, so soon they will go to heaven, if they are not already there.

Dear God help us to be one in our mind and heart.

Dear God help us to pray for these men and women who lost their lives serving their country.

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Matthew 22: 36-40

'Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?' Jesus said to him, 'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets too.'

R. Yesterday was Pentecost

Sing Veni Sancte Spiritus

From the Lectionary

Pentecost Sequence

Come, Holy Spirit, come!
And from your celestial home
    Shed a ray of light divine!

Come, Father of the poor!
Come, source of all our store!
    Come, within our bosoms shine!

You, of comforters the best;
You, the soul's most welcome guest;
    Sweet refreshment here below;

In our Labor, rest most sweet;
Grateful coolness in the heat;
    Solace in the midst of woe.

O most blessed Light divine,
Shine within these hearts of yours,
    And our inmost being fill!

Where you are not, man has naught,
Nothing good in deed or thought,
    Nothing free from taint of ill!

Heal our wounds, our strength renew;
On our dryness pour your dew;
    Wash the stains of guilt away;

Bend the stubborn heart and will;
Melt the frozen, warm the chill;
    Guide the steps that go astray.

On the faithful, who adore
And confess you, evermore
    In your sev'nfold gift descend;

Give them virtue's sure reward;
Give them your salvation, Lord;
    Give them joys that never end. Amen.
Alleluia.

R. Dear God we pray for our country.

Dear God we pray for the priests, the Church and the world.

We pray for grace to be outpoured on the whole world, that men will do what God wants of them.

We pray for men to seek purity of heart.

Cleanse our heart Oh Lord.
Give us grace to open our minds and hearts so Your grace will penetrate our heart and wills and help us to to do what You want.

Help men to be loving in their hearts.

Excerpt from Response to God's Love by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

    ... In reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate mystery. Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden from man in his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us briefly look at this inner life of God.

    The Father, in a perfect act of self-expression, in a perfect act of knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the immanent expression of God's fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise, from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in a perfect act of loving.

    At the destined moment in human history, God's self-expression, the Word, immersed himself into man's world. God's inner self-expression now had also become God's outer self-expression. Consequently, the mystery of God becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us about himself, about his inner life, about his plan of creation and redemption. He tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell within us in the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us their own life through grace. All this he has accomplished and does accomplish through Christ.

end of excerpt

R. Response!!!

God Calls. We are to respond to God's call.
Call-Response.

R. Dear Holy Spirit give us Your gifts.

Work in our souls forming us more and more into the image of Jesus.

                But we have a free will.
                We must pray for these gifts
                We must pray for the Holy Spirit to come to fill us.

                We pray for the increase of the virtues
                so we do not give into the deadly sins
                    pride, greed, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth

Oh, Holy Spirit strengthen us now with the fire of Your love
Penetrate our Hearts and souls –

Fill us with Divine Wisdom to know God more and more

                Come and fill us with Yourself
                Work in us
                Make us docile to do always the will of the Heavenly Father

                Guide us in counsel
                Help us in distress
                Lift our hearts up to Thee, Oh God
                We love Thee
                We worship Thee
                We Honor Thee.

Oh Jesus You are the Bridegroom of our souls
Help us to have Your image traced on us more and more through the power of the Holy Spirit.

                Give us the grace to Love You with all our hearts, all our souls and all our being.
                Come Holy Spirit fill our hearts
                Come Holy Spirit fill the hearts of Your faithful

Enkindle in us Your burning love.

Dear Holy Spirit sanctify us and help us to be holy likened to God.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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.'

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.

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.'

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.

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May 16, 1998 - Prayer to the Father

My Father,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Excerpt from Priestly Newsletter 1998 - ISSUE FOUR

    Shortly before he was to die from cancer, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin left us these inspiring words about peace: "It is the first day of November, and fall is giving way to winter. Soon the trees will lose the vibrant colors of their leaves and snow will cover the ground. The earth will shut down, and people will race to and from their destinations bundled up for warmth. Chicago winters are harsh. It is a time of dying.

    "But we know that spring will soon come with all its new life and wonder.

    "It is quite clear that I will not be alive in the spring. But I will soon experience new life in a different way...

    "What I would like to leave behind is a simple prayer that each of you may find what I have found—God's special gift to us all: the gift of peace. When we are at peace, we find the freedom to be most fully who we are, even in the worst of times. We let go of what is non-essential and embrace what is essential. We empty ourselves so that God may more fully work within us. And we become instruments in the hands of the Lord."³

Notes:

3. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, The Gift of Peace, Loyola University Press, pp. 151-153.

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.

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From the Priestly Newsletter Book III by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

The Holy Spirit And Mary

The late Archbishop Luis M. Martinez of Mexico strikingly speaks of the ongoing cooperation of Mary with the Holy Spirit regarding the reproduction of Jesus within us: "Christian life is the reproduction of Jesus in souls…

"Now, how will this mystical reproduction be brought about in souls? In the same way in which Jesus was brought into the world, for God gives a wonderful mark of unity to all His works. Divine acts have a wealth of variety because they are the work of omnipotence; nevertheless, a most perfect unity always shines forth from them because they are the fruit of wisdom; and this divine contrast of unity and variety stamps the works of God with sublime and unutterable beauty.

"In His miraculous birth, Jesus was the fruit of heaven and earth…The Holy Spirit conveyed the divine fruitfulness of the Father to Mary, and the virginal soil brought forth in an ineffable manner our most loving Savior, the divine Seed, as the prophets called Him…

"That is the way He is reproduced in souls. He is always the fruit of heaven and earth.

"Two artisans must concur in the work that is at once God’s masterpiece and humanity’s supreme product: the Holy Spirit and the most holy Virgin Mary. Two sanctifiers are necessary to souls, the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, for they are the only ones who can reproduce Christ.

"Undoubtedly, the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary sanctify us in different ways. The first is the Sanctifier by essence; because He is God, who is infinite sanctity; because He is the personal Love that completes, so to speak, the sanctity of God, consummating His life and His unity, and it belongs to Him to communicate to souls the mystery of that sanctity. The Virgin Mary, for her part, is the co-operator, the indispensable instrument in and by God’s design. From Mary’s maternal relation to the human body of Christ is derived her relation to His Mystical Body which is being formed through all the centuries until the end of time, when it will be lifted up to the heavens, beautiful, splendid, complete, and glorious.

"These two, then, the Holy Spirit and Mary, are the indispensable artificers of Jesus, the indispensable sanctifiers of souls. Any saint in heaven can co-operate in the sanctification of a soul, but his co-operation is not necessary, not profound, not constant: while the co-operation of these two artisans of Jesus of whom we have just been speaking is so necessary that without it souls are not sanctified (and this by the actual design of Providence), and so intimate that it reaches to the very depths of our soul. For the Holy Spirit pours charity into our heart, makes a habitation of our soul, and directs our spiritual life by means of His gifts. The Virgin Mary has the efficacious influence of Mediatrix in the most profound and delicate operations of grace in our souls. And, finally, the action of the Holy Spirit and the co-operation of the most holy Virgin Mary are constant; without them, not one single character of Jesus would be traced on our souls, no virtue grow, no gift be developed, no grace increased, no bond of union with God be strengthened in the rich flowering of the spiritual life.

"Such is the place that the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary have in the order of sanctification. Therefore, Christian piety should put these two artisans of Christ in their true place, making devotion to them something necessary, profound, and constant." ¹⁸

18. Archbishop Luis M. Martinez, The Sanctifier, op. cit. pp. 5-7.

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