Mary has requested that the daily message be given each day to the world. It is read nightly at the prayer service from her Image Building in Clearwater, Florida, U.S.A. This is according to her request. All attempts will be made to publish this daily message to the world at 11 p.m. Eastern time, U.S.A. We acknowledge that the final authority regarding these messages rests with the Holy See of Rome.

May 4, 2000

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

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

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

Messenger: I wish you to include the Gospel of today’s Mass. Today is May 4, 2000.

God the Father speaks: Six years ago today My Son gave a message and He requested this message be put out on the Falmouth Farm. It was a message of His great love for men. I am the Father. Today, I come to you My earth, My beloved earth, 6 years later, and I have a message to give to you. The message is this:

There are so many souls that will be condemned to hell for all eternity because of their sins.

We have cried out to you in these messages to the earth. And you have not listened.

This is the month of May, the month of your Mother. From May 13 of 1917 to October 13 of 1917, she appeared to the children at Fatima. And she told them what must be done to have peace in the world. 83 years later, you have not listened to the Mother that I gave to you. After apparitions all through the 20^th century, you have ignored her and her pleading cry.

I have given to you this gift, the Virgin Mary as she appears on the building in Clearwater, Florida. Oh, your hearts must be pure and you must turn yourselves over to God.

What is your life, if it is not a life of truth and of purity, if it is not a life in which you have included the Creator as the One that you follow?

Do you know the gift I have given to you, the woman so fair, painted by My hand on a man-made structure on a busy corner in Clearwater, Florida?

It is a Mother that cries to you and wants to reach her children.

My Son’s Movement, Shepherds of Christ Movement, is a Movement in which men will be shepherds leading the strayed ones home to His Heart.

Through trouble and toil My shepherds have labored to deliver the message that We have given to you from heaven, and yet you fail to see that it is God that speaks to you. And your eyes do not perceive the Blessed Mother as she appears on the building.

Oh, My children, My Son is truly present and with you today in the Holy Eucharist in His Divinity and Humanity. And she cries to you to lead you to His Eucharistic Heart.

As your Father in heaven, I ask you now to help to secure the building where the Virgin Mary appears, crying out to her children, a Lady clothed with the Sun, a Mother of love, one who stood beneath the cross of her Son, crying for the children of this day.

God the Father speaks: Will you, My children, help to secure this building in Florida? Will you help to spread the rosary to the far ends of the earth, as your Mother Mary has instructed that you must do? Will you give your hearts to the pure Hearts of the New Adam and the New Eve?

God the Father speaks: My Son gave Himself for you and He remains with you this day, truly present in the Holy Eucharist.

God the Father speaks: Today you must pray for your priests and the Church and the world. You must pray the rosary as your Mother has instructed you to do.

Please, My children, turn your hearts back to God.

I am the Creator, the One that molded you and loved you, that cherished you so much, that created you and gave you life.

Today, I ask you to think of the little ones that are dying in the streets where they have chosen a way of life that is not the way of their God. And they will go to hell for all eternity, if they do not change their ways.

My children, this is a message from God, your Father.

In this month of May, I ask all efforts be made to secure the Virgin Mary Building, that it be purchased for the sole purpose that My Son and your Mother have designated in these messages. Mary is the Lady clothed with the Sun that appears here to lead the children home to His Sacred Eucharistic Heart.

Oh, My children, hear Me, for indeed I speak to thee, harken to My call, My children. It is through the Mass that great grace will be released on this earth as you unite as a Body, praying to your God, making reparation and telling Him you are sorry for your sins and the sins of this earth.

Great mercy and grace will be released for you My children, if you only listen, if you unite.

This is a mission of My Son. He delivers the details of this mission in these messages to help bring about the reign of His Sacred Heart. This is His mission, which He is asking you to help fulfill through your prayers and your sacrifices, to lead the strayed ones home to the Heart of Jesus.

And it will be a great time in these two months, the month of May devoted to Mary and the month of June devoted to His most Sacred Heart.

It will be a great two months if you comply to the requests that We make in these messages from heaven.

Please, My children, it is the Church that He loves so.

It is His bride that He wants most pure, most holy, most recognized as He acts through His Church to lead the children home to God.

And you will say on that day, when you are called to join Me in everlasting paradise,

"Oh my Father, I have tried to serve you well, for when I heard your cry, I harkened to thee."

I am God, the Almighty, the One Who creates, the One Who loved you so much that I sent My only begotten Son into the world that you would be saved.

My children of the light, Mary your Mother, painted on the building in Florida is a gift I give to you, harken to My call. Amen.

Acts 5:27-33

When they had brought them in to face the Sanhedrin, the high priest demanded an explanation. 'We gave you a strong warning', he said, 'not to preach in this name, and what have you done? You have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and seem determined to fix the guilt for this man's death on us.' In reply Peter and the apostles said, 'Obedience to God comes before obedience to men; it was the God of our ancestors who raised up Jesus, whom you executed by hanging on a tree. By his own right hand God has now raised him up to be leader and Saviour, to give repentance and forgiveness of sins through him to Israel. We are witnesses to this, we and the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.' This so infuriated them that they wanted to put them to death.

Messenger: The message the Father refers to May 4, 1994, I Call You to Holiness, can be clicked on from Blue Book III. It finally was put out on the farm at the very end of the year, 1994.

What has Shepherds of Christ and being a Handmaid done for my life and for my relationship with Jesus?

I first heard of Shepherds of Christ from a letter received concerning a rosary gathering at Tom’s Farm in October 1996. My family already had plans for the 13^th. When I received a notice for November 13^th my brother and I went not knowing much about Shepherds of Christ, but if it was praying the rosary-it had to be good. It was the most powerful rosary I ever attended. I didn’t go for several months, but felt drawn to this ministry and compelled to pray the prayers and read the blue books. Jesus was talking directly to me through them and it was great.

Jesus has always worked slowly in my heart. Pain and suffering in my early adult life brought me to realize that God was the only one I could turn to in my need. God alone was my strength.

In July 1997, news came that the department where I worked was being phased out by the parent company on the east coast. I was disenchanted with my job and I only continued working there to live, so I wasn’t concerned about the lack of a job.

During this same time, I felt pulled in my heart to pray with Shepherds of Christ as a body. I was shy and I would just come, sit, pray and be silent, not really talking to anyone very much.

I knew from my childhood that I would never marry. The pull Jesus had on me was stronger than the world’s, though I didn’t realize the source. For the past year I had become closer to Jesus and I felt what I would do with my life, next, would be for him alone.

On August 13, 1998, I went to China, Indiana, to the monthly rosary knowing something was going to happen-but not knowing what. During the rosary the president of Shepherds of Christ started reading a letter from Jesus about women being called as handmaids and their way of life. I felt the power of the Holy Spirit descend on my head and I was glad to be sitting. I knew Jesus was calling me to become a handmaid, a call that I had been waiting patiently for, for over two years.

After the rosary I acted on the Holy Spirit’s prompting immediately-knowing if I didn’t, I would find excuses not to. Jesus’ hand is very strong in my life. I was accepted as a candidate for a handmaid within a few days and gave two weeks notice at work. I found myself in Clearwater, Florida, within three weeks.

As a Handmaid of the Good Shepherd my life is very prayerful and very one on one with Jesus as His spouse. He is the Bridegroom of my Soul. Just being with him after Mass and in front of the tabernacle is candy to my soul and leaves me speechless. Being a handmaid has brought the joy, love and peace of my Divine Bridegroom into my life to an extent I didn’t even know could exist.

He calls me to constant change and growth. I cannot remain the same, for my life and love for him would stagnate. I live to serve him. I have only scratched the surface of the depth to which my soul craves union with my Lord and Savior. Any life in God is hard work, but the rewards are unbounded.

Jesus loves each and everyone of us on a personal level. He died on the cross to save each soul. He, the living God, is truly waiting in the tabernacle for us, to love us, if we would only come and sit with him.

Since my move to Clearwater, Florida, in 1998, I have recently traveled to China, Indiana, for a stay and I am currently in Morrow, Ohio, doing the work Jesus has called me to do. Jesus knows where I will be next, even though I do not.

There is nothing boring about being on Jesus’ roller coaster. The ride is into eternity! I can’t wait to see you there!

Mary's Message from the Rosary of August 27, 1996

Mary speaks: I stood beneath the cross of my Son, and my Heart was in such pain for I saw Him before my eyes. I saw Him covered with blood. I saw Him die. My Heart, my children, my Heart to watch my Son, but my Heart, my Heart, how I suffered for my little children of the world that give in to this world and give up the love of my Son. O my little children of light, I give you this message. Carry this light into the darkness for your Mother Mary, for I stood beneath the cross and I cried. I cried for the little ones. I cried for the young ones, the ones that do not care and will lose their souls. How do I make you see for you will not listen to me? What can I do? I come. I appear. I beg. I plead. I give you these gifts from my Son, and you reject me. I do not deliver messages very often anymore for I have been ignored. The message is the same. You do not read the messages I have given to you. Please help me. Help the little children. I appear. I appear. I appear, and I am ignored. I stood beneath the cross, and I cried. I cried, and my Heart was in such anguish for my little children, for I am searching for them this day as I searched for the Child Jesus. Please, please help me. I cannot hold back the hand of my Son any longer. I am Mary, your Mother. I ask you to help my children. You are my children of light.

Song: O Lady of Light, shining so bright, be with us this day, guiding our way, O Lady, O Lady of Light.

Mary speaks: I appear to you as Our Mother of Sorrows.

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MY VALENTINE FOR JESUS AND MARY AND THE WORLD I _________________ give my heart to You Jesus and Mary on this day _________________ I promise to help spread the devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

Messenger: The question is from the Father.

…and they become one flesh.

Question for married couples and others in intimate relationships:

Q: How do I feel I can thank God for calling me to this mission by doing little acts of love when performing duties?

God the Father speaks: My Son, Jesus did My will to His death in perfect love. I have called you My married couples, you are chosen by Me to help bring many children to heaven, to help the children in the Church and the world. This is indeed a great mission and honor. Many are called, few are chosen. I love you, I am the Father.

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