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

1 The Mystery of Christ and             Christian Existence

   ...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. St. Paul tells us: "I became a minister of this Church through the commission God gave me to preach among you his word in its fullness, that mystery hidden from ages and generations past but now revealed to his holy ones. God has willed to make known to them the glory beyond price which this mystery brings to the Gentiles—the mystery of Christ in you, your hope of glory. This is the Christ we proclaim while we admonish all men and teach them in the full measure of wisdom, hoping to make every man complete in Christ" (Col 1:25-28).

May 6, 2005 message continues

Messenger:       but it is beyond my pen and paper to
                            write what I know and experience
                            of Jesus truly present in the
                            Eucharist —

                        words are empty and fail horribly to
                        express any of this —

                        nor do any words even exist to explain
                            even minutely the glories of
                            heaven —

                        The knowledge I know is etched
                            in the layers of my soul —
                            and my soul has no layers and
                            to express in any words is
                            to try to put an apple in
                            a small necked bottle.

                        Eve ate the apple and it is in reaching
                            for the knowledge of the unseen
                            truth of heaven that words
                            do not dare to exist to describe
                            any of it —

                        In that moment of the Mass, He filled
                            my soul with His grace — He
                            united my spirit so deeply to
                            His and I knew so deeply the
                            gift of the Eucharist in my
                            soul.

                            I sobbed because of this knowledge,
                            being here in my body and reaching
                            so deeply into union with God
                            and the Church, the human race —
                            being overtaken with the joy within
                            me to know Him — my Master,
                            my All —

                            Now I write only as he directs me
                            for you for I wanted to linger
                            there and never move and be taken
                            ever deeper into the mystery and
                            stay, as if suspended in time,
                            feeling time stand still and
                            in it I existed so deeply in Him,
                            Father, Son, Holy Spirit, knowing
                            Mary, the angels and saints,
                            heaven and being united with
                            all the souls of the earth and
                            I prayed as I ask you to pray for
                            grace to be released for the
                            Priests reading the Newsletter on
                            Mary and the Eucharist for their
                            love of Jesus truly present in
                            the Eucharist to burn in
                            their hearts and the love of Mary,
                            so one with Jesus to grow as
                            Mother of Jesus, Mother of us
                            all —

                            Mystery — oh mystery —
                            My soul is so filled with His knowledge
                            imparted to me and His grace and the
                            reality of the gift given to us
                            in the priest and the Eucharist
                            burns in my heart and soul.

                        Oh yes I can try to write a sonnet, but
                            it is ineffable and it is because
                            of His desire I write to you,
                            I am writing at all —

                        My prayer being for the souls and this
                            realization of the gift of
                            the Eucharist — that men's
                            eyes will see — their scales
                            on their eyes lifted — their
                        hearts filled with longing for the
                        Eucharist — Jesus, Our God —
                        truly present in the Mass —

                            Oh why with such a gift
                        given to us by God in His
                        Movement, Shepherds of Christ, would the
                        world not help us circulate such
                        a gift to every priest on the
                        face of the earth.

                            His Heart burns for love —
                        His eyes filled with fire —
                        the fire of the love of the Divine
                        God who gives Himself to us —
                        Jesus who mounted the
                        cross and died, shed His
                        Blood for our sins, Our
                        Savior, Our lover, Our
                        Spouse, Our all —

                        Oh sweet Jesus, God of us all,
                            let this message penetrate
                            our hearts to know you and
                            to run to the Eucharist to be
                            fed by Your Body and Blood —
                            to spend our lives praying and offering
                            our lives for the priests, the Church
                            and the world.

                            Oh I long to ponder the mystery
                        through the heart of Mary my
                        mother and see through her eyes —
                        so if you see Mary here

July 5, 2000

May 6, 2005 message continues

Messenger:       You know we must circulate these
                        images to tell the world Mary
                        appeared here in Clearwater to
                        tell us about her Son Jesus'
                        Movement and to lead us to
                        the burning Eucharistic Heart
                        of her Son.

                            Now His face appears

February 5, 2001

May 6, 2005 message continues

Messenger:       This is a sign of God's love
                            for us.

                        God wants us to pray for the priests,
                            the Church and the world
                            as He instructed Fr. Carter

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May 6, 2005 message continues

Jesus speaks:   

                            I appear to lead you to this
                        Movement — I beg you to help
                        Me get the Priestly Newsletter
                        in the hands of My priests
                        before the Feast of My Sacred
                        Heart, First Friday and the
                        Feast of Mary's Immaculate
                        Heart, First Saturday —

                            I am God, I have given
                        this gift to you — NOW
                        I will outpour My grace to the
                        Priests reading this Newsletter
                        to take them ever deeper
                        to My Eucharistic Heart and
                        to know Me more deeply and
                        be in love with My Mother,
                        their mother Mary, Mother
                        of the Church —

                            with this Newsletter comes
                        this promise from Me — you are
                        to pray the prayers as I have
                        instructed

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May 6, 2005 message continues

Jesus speaks:    You are to pray for the priests,
                            the Church and the world
                            as you have never prayed
                            before — for greater vision and
                            deep heart felt love

                        I am Jesus, I am your Savior
                            this is My Movement,
                            My Newsletter and I give
                            this promise

                        Also this promise

Given to Father Carter
on the Feast of St. Ignatius

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)

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