We do not have money for postage
to mail the Priestly Newsletter Book II
to the bishops as Jesus requested.

Messenger:         God,

                            I am so sorry for our sins,
                            Oh God please forgive the sins of the people of
                                the human race.
                            Oh God, I plead and beg for light, for mercy for
                                grace for the souls of the earth.

                            This is so serious.
                            We have sinned for generations, offending God,
                                not giving Him the love and praise and honor
                                that is His due, not loving one another as
                                we should.

Jesus speaks:     I give you My Blue Book Messages
                                as a mighty medicine to lead men to Me.
                                I am Jesus, the Son of God. I have written
                                to you in these writings and messages of
                                My messenger Rita Ring and Fr. Carter.

                            Not with weapons and powder and force will
                                you conquer the earth, but with hearts
                                filled with love.

                            It is My might that will be behind you as
                                you reach out to spread Christianity
                                on the earth.

                            There will be one flock and one Shepherd.

John 10: 14-16

I am the good shepherd; 
I know my own 
and my own know me, 
just as the Father knows me 
and I know the Father; 
and I lay down my life for my sheep. 
And there are other sheep I have 
that are not of this fold, 
and I must lead these too. 
They too will listen to my voice, 
and there will be only one flock, 
one shepherd.

  

May 8, 2002 message continues

Messenger:              In one second God can outpour His grace if He
                            so desires and men will see.

                                We must pray for grace.
                                God gives us the Mass.
                                God gives us the priest.
                                Jesus, the Son of God, is truly present in the Eucharist.

                            Oh my God help us.

Jesus speaks:     Oh my little ones, the Power is in the Eucharist.
                            I want the Eucharist exposed in China for the retreat
                                on the 13th. Pray for a priest to do this, ask a priest
                                to come and expose the Eucharist so you can pray
                                before the Exposed Eucharist for over 48 hours
                                for the priests, the Church and the world.

Excerpt from the Apostle's Manual
  

March 26, 1996

May 8, 2002 message continues

Messenger:          Look at the world since the time of Adam and Eve
                            We have sinned.
                             Mary comes at Fatima to deliver the message we                  
                                must pray the rosary, etc.
  

1. Consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary—until a sufficient number of people make and live the consecration, we will not have peace in the world.

2. Praying the rosary.

3. Observing the First Saturday Devotion.

4. Making reparation to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

May 8, 2002 message continues

Messenger:          Look at the messages of the Angel at Fatima.

Messenger:         The Blue Books are messages given from God.
                            Jesus told me the Blue Book messages are very closely
                                linked to the messages of the angel at Fatima.

Jesus speaks:     Oh My children, souls are dropping into hell like
                                rain. There is so much sin in the hearts, I
                                beg you to spread the Blue Books, I beg you
                                to do all you can to get them printed. Your answers
                                are found in these writings and the writings of Fr.
                                Carter.

                            Oh My children, more things than you know have been
                                done to innocent little Christian children.
                                Oh My people, I cry bloody tears for you are
                                so blind. I write to you in these letters that
                                you will hear My voice. Oh My children are
                                being taught so many ill things in their minds.
                                What about the murdering of the minds of children.

Excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, by Louis J. Puhl, S.J.
 

136. THE FOURTH DAY

        A MEDITATION ON TWO STANDARDS

The one of Christ, our supreme leader and lord,
the other of Lucifer, the deadly enemy of our
human nature

PRAYER.   The usual preparatory prayer.

window at a former Jesuit Seminary

137. FIRST PRELUDE.   This is the history. Here it will be that Christ calls and wants all beneath His standard, and Lucifer, on the other hand, wants all under his.

138. SECOND PRELUDE.   This is a mental representation of the place. It will be here to see a great plain, comprising the whole region about Jerusalem, where the sovereign Commander-in-Chief of all the good is Christ our Lord; and another plain about the region of Babylon, where the chief of the enemy is Lucifer.

139. THIRD PRELUDE.   This is to ask for what I desire. Here it will be to ask for a knowledge of the deceits of the rebel chief and help to guard myself against them; and also to ask for a knowledge of the true life exemplified in the sovereign and true Commander, and the grace to imitate Him.
   

FIRST PART

THE STANDARD OF SATAN

140. FIRST POINT.   Imagine you see the chief of all the enemy in the vast plain about Babylon, seated on a great throne of fire and smoke, his appearance inspiring horror and terror.

141. SECOND POINT.   Consider how he summons innumerable demons, and scatters them, some to one city and some to another, throughout the whole world, so that no province, no place, no state of life, no individual is overlooked.

142. THIRD POINT.   Consider the address he makes to them, how he goads them on to lay snares for men and bind them with chains. First they are to tempt them to covet riches (as Satan himself is accustomed to do in most cases) that they may the more easily attain the empty honors of this world, and then come to overweening pride.

   The first step, then, will be riches, the second honor, the third pride. From these three steps the evil one leads to all other vices.
   

SECOND PART

THE STANDARD OF CHRIST

143.   In a similar way, we are to picture to ourselves the sovereign and true Commander, Christ our Lord.

144. FIRST POINT.   Consider Christ our Lord, standing in a lowly place in a great plain about the region of Jerusalem, His appearance beautiful and attractive.

145. SECOND POINT.   Consider how the Lord of all the world chooses so many persons, apostles, disciples, etc., and sends them throughout the whole world to spread His sacred doctrine among all men, no matter what their state or condition.

146. THIRD POINT.   . . .
   

end of excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

May 8, 2002 message continues

Jesus speaks:     Fr. Carter's message was given on the feast of St. Ignatius.

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)

         

May 8, 2002 message continues

Jesus speaks:     Oh if I explained it all to you would you listen?
                            You follow like sheep.
                            So many tell you so many things and you listen
                                and follow.

                            Pray for grace to follow the Good Shepherd.
                            Take your children to Mass.
                            Those in the Catholic schools should take the children
                                to Mass and teach them about the love of the
                                Trinity and the Divinity of Christ.

                            You are so worried about what men think.
                            Do you think about what God is telling you to
                                do and how you disobey.

                            I have given you a free will.
                            Some force their ways on other through abuse.
                            Some are just sinful and give into their desires.

                            You are blind men.
                            You do not even see Mary appear on the building.
                            You look the other way and you will not take
                                notice.

                            You are suffering.
                            Mary is your Mother.
                            Many do not love her.
                            Many do not honor her.
                            Many ignore their Mother Mary.
                            Mary appears here as a messenger from God.
                            Remember the Garden—Remember Adam and Eve.
                            I am the New Adam, Mary is the New Eve, we
                                appear in the garden in Clearwater.

                            Mary will crush the head of the serpent.
                            You ignore her, My Mother, your Mother,
                                the one Immaculately Conceived,
                                you ignore your Mother.

                            Oh My children you are willful in
                                your ways and you will not listen.

                            Remember Noah and the covenant God made
                                with the men of the earth.
                            I show you the sign of the rainbow.

March 21, 2001

May 8, 2002 message continues

Jesus speaks:     You murder for the sake of religion.
                            Oh My men who move ahead conquering
                                the earth, forcing their ways through
                                Blood.

                            Even My sacred land is not sacred anymore.
                            Blood has stained the place of My Birth.
                            I am the Son of God.
                            I was born in the little town of Bethlehem.
                            2000 years later you bring your hatred even
                                to the place of My birth.

                            Oh men of the earth.
                            It is not with arms of fire you will conquer
                                the earth, but with holy hearts,
                                with hearts filled with love,
                                with hearts that rely on the Might of God.

                            You must be deep intercessors praying for your
                                priests, the Church and the world.

                            I give you My prayers to pray and you
                                ignore Me.

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Jesus speaks:     Your priests are so important to you.
                            Oh the Mass is so important.
                            Tell your God you know you have sinned
                                as a people and you are sorry.
                            Beg for forgiveness.
                            Rely on My might.
                            Oh My poor little, dumb ones.
                            I give you Myself and I am God.
                            Read My Blue Books, there are no funds
                                for My work.
                            You are suffering and it will continue.

May 8, 2002 message continues

Jesus speaks:     Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden
                            we appear to you in the garden in
                                Clearwater—

                                Look at My picture I have given
                                    from the 5th.

May 5, 2002

May 8, 2002 message continues

Jesus speaks:     Do you believe in Guadalupe.
                            I give you this sign today.

Revelation 12: 1-12

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 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. The great dragon, the primeval serpent, known as the devil or Satan, who had led all the world astray, was hurled down to the earth and his angels were hurled down with him. Then I heard a voice should from heaven, 'Salvation and power and empire for ever have been won by our God, and all authority for his Christ, now that the accuser, who accused our brothers day and night before our God, has been brought down.

  

Genesis chapter 3

The Fall

    Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, 'Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?' The woman answered the snake, 'We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, "You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death." ' Then the snake said to the woman, 'No! You will not die! God knows in fact that the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good from evil.' The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was enticing for the wisdom that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realised that they were naked. So they sewed fig-leaves together to make themselves loin-cloths.

    The man and his wife heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. But Yahweh God called to the man. 'Where are you?' he asked. 'I heard the sound of you in the garden,' he replied. 'I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.' 'Who told you that you were naked?' he asked. 'Have you been eating from the tree I forbade you to eat?' The man replied, 'It was the woman you put with me; she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.' Then Yahweh God said to the woman, 'Why did you do that?' The woman replied, 'The snake tempted me and I ate.'

Then Yahweh God said to the snake, 'Because you have done this,

    Accursed be you
    of all animals wild and tame!
    On your belly you will go
    and on dust you will feed
    as long as you live.
    I shall put enmity
    between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring and hers;
    it will bruise your head
    and you will strike its heel.'

    To the woman he said:

    I shall give you intense pain
        in childbearing,
    you will give birth to your children
        in pain.
    Your yearning will be for your husband,
    and he will dominate you.

To the man he said, 'Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat,

    Accursed be the soil because of you!
    Painfully will you get your food from it
    as long as you live.
    It will yield you brambles and thistles,
    as you eat the produce of the land.
    By the sweat of your face
    will you earn you food,
    until you return to the ground,
    as you were taken from it.
    For dust you are
    and to dust you shall return.

    The man named his wife 'Eve' because she was the mother of all those who live. Yahweh God made tunics of skins for the man and his wife and clothed them. Then Yahweh God said, 'Now that the man has become like one of us in knowing good from evil, he must not be allowed to reach out his hand and pick from the tree of life too, and eat and live for ever!' So Yahweh God expelled him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he had been taken. He banished the man, and in front of the garden of Eden he posted the great winged creatures and the fiery flashing sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.

  

Revelation 11: 1-19

The two witnesses

Then I was given a long cane like a measuring rod, and I was told, ‘Get up and measure God’s sanctuary, and the altar, and the people who worship there; but exclude the outer court and do not measure it, because it has been handed over to gentiles—they will trample on the holy city for forty–two months. But I shall send my two witnesses to prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, wearing sackcloth. These are the two olive trees and the two lamps in attendance on the Lord of the world. Fire comes from their mouths and consumes their enemies if anyone tries to harm them; and anyone who tries to harm them will certainly be killed in this way. They have the power to lock up the sky so that it does not rain as long as they are prophesying; they have the power to turn water into blood and strike the whole world with any plague as often as they like. When they have completed their witnessing, the beast that comes out of the Abyss is going to make war on them and overcome them and kill them. Their corpses lie in the main street of the great city known by the symbolic names Sodom and Egypt, in which their Lord was crucified. People of every race, tribe, language and nation stare at their corpses, for three–and–a–half days, not letting them be buried, and the people of the world are glad about it and celebrate the event by giving presents to each other, because these two prophets have been a plague to the people of the world.’
    After the three–and–a–half days, God breathed life into them and they stood up on their feet, and everybody who saw it happen was terrified; then I heard a loud voice from heaven say to them, ‘Come up here,’ and while their enemies were watching, they went up to heaven in a cloud. Immediately, there was a violent earthquake, and a tenth of the city collapsed; seven thousand persons were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors, overcome with fear, could only praise the God of heaven.
    That was the second of the disasters; the third is to come quickly after it.

    

July 4, 1996

    This message was received before a live statue of the Sorrowful Mother after Communion.

Message from Jesus: "Peace will abound when nations, churches, families and individuals are consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary."

    "Your founder is a pillar of light to the dark world. This is the explanation of the photo. It is through him, I will turn darkness to light. Circulate this message with the picture. Encourage all to consecrate their hearts to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to join the Shepherds of Christ Chapters, and the Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Movement to pray for your Church and your world. This is My Movement for renewal of the Church and the world, based in consecration, joining your every act to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, praying the rosary, and making reparation to Our Hearts, especially on First Fridays and First Saturdays. It is through your prayers and sacrifices many souls will be helped to be saved. Grace will flow from those whose hearts are consecrated to Our Hearts and the fire of My Love will light up this darkened world."

    As you look at the picture, you see our founder's arm and hand on your left. This picture of our founder was taken July 2, 1996 at the Tuesday Shepherds of Christ Meeting at Tom Arlinghaus' Farm.

end of message July 4, 1996

 

    Revelation 3: 12-13

    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. Let anyone who can hear, listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches."

  

May 8, 2002 message continues

Jesus speaks:     The power is in the Eucharist.

                            Circulate My Books.

Blue Book 1

Blue Book 2

Blue Book 3

Fr Carter's Newsletters

Mass Book

Rosary Book

Children's Rosary Book

The Spirituality of Fatima

Little People and Elderly

Coloring Book

May 8, 2002 message continues

Jesus speaks:     The power is in the Eucharist.

                            Consecrate your Hearts to the Sacred Heart and
                                Immaculate Heart.

                            Pray the Rosary.

                            Say the Morning Offering.

                            Pray My Prayers

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Jesus speaks:     I AM GOD.

                 I SPEAK HERE.

                 PLEASE HEAR ME.

                       Souls are at Stake!!

May 8, 2002 message continues

Jesus speaks:     Little children are open

                            they are waiting to be

                            taught.

                       What are your children being

                            taught.

                       There are hospitals of sick children.

                            They suffer for all the little

                                children in the world that

                                 are being taught sick things.

                             Pray for the children.

                            You should make reparation to Our
                                Hearts for the offenses against
                                Our Hearts.

                            I am the New Adam,
                            Mary is the New Eve.
                            We appear here.

4. For background material on Fatima, I am particularly indebted to 
    Our Lady of Fatima's Peace Plan from Heaven
    (Rockford: TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., 1983). pp.1-2.
5. Ibid., p.2 (The words in brackets are my own-added for clarification).
6. Louis Kondar, SVD, editor, Fatima in Lucia's Own Words 
    (Fatima: Postulation Center, 1976), p.62. Distributed in the U.S.A.
    by the Ravengate Press, Cambridge, MA.

end of excerpt from the Parents and Children's Rosary Book

May 8, 2002 message continues

Jesus speaks:     I speak through My messenger.

Excerpt from February 15, 2002 message

Jesus speaks:      Make a list of things that are needed so people
                                can help if they so desire.

Messenger:           A small list is this
  
                            1) Priestly Newsletter Book II Foreign Mailing Postage

                            2) Mass Book II  

                            3) Rosary Meditations for Little People and Elderly

                            4) Blue Book I  printing (we have no Blue Book I's)

                            5) Blue Book III  printing (we have no Blue Book III's)

                            6) Prayer Manuals printing  

                            7) Holy Spirit Novena Booklet printing 

                            8) Rosary beads 

                            9) Image rosaries to sell

                            10) Pictures (photo's) to make available

                           11) Blankets of Mary's image

                           12) Videos for nursing  home program

                           13) Little People's Mass Book

                           14) Little People's Coloring Book of the Mass

February 15, 2002 message continues

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February 7, 2002

  

To whom it may concern,
  

    We circulate the Priestly Newsletter that goes to 75,000 priests in the world. This has been circulated since 1994 at the direction of Fr. Edward Carter, S.J. who had a doctorate in Theology and taught at Xavier University for over thirty years and author of eighteen books on the spiritual life and many other various publications.

    Our primary purpose is to circulate this Newsletter. We are now sending three years of Newsletters in a book of 342 pages to 75,000 priests in the United States and 90 foreign countries. A special Newsletter is enclosed with Father Carter's powerful writing on Grace (2001 issue 1). This writing is also available on tape and on disc.

    Our coequal purpose is to circulate prayer manuals Father Carter compiled for prayer chapters praying for the priests, the Church and
the world.

    All of our printing and postage costs so much money.

    We operate from the Virgin Mary building in Clearwater, Florida, pictures are enclosed. We use the building to spread materials and rosaries
to encourage people to pray for the priests, the Church and the world.

    We also have a church we received from the diocese in China, Indiana where we distribute our materials and pray before the Blessed Sacrament hourly and about two hours or more at 6:20 every day. Monthly adoration before the exposed Eucharist is held for our members for 48 hours on the 12th of each month to the 14th.

    We have a third center in Morrow, Ohio which is our communication center and mailing address.

    We circulate rosaries handmade to Catholic schools all over the United States and meditation sheets and consecration cards. We try to send scapulars too when we have them. We supply many beads to our rosary makers for this.

    We had difficulty all last summer securing funds for beads for our rosary makers. We were not able to send the 100,000 or more rosaries we usually send in October and May because of funds.

    We need $10,000 every month for the loan on the Virgin Mary building. We pray nightly there usually for about two hours or more at 6:20. We pray all through the day there, hourly, many times before the image. A big prayer meeting is held on the 5th of the month. Prayers are prayed for about 4 hours for the priests, the Church and the world. We broadcast to at least 8 states and all join in the prayers, including Morrow and China.

    We have a nursing home ministry and a prison ministry. We supply coloring books of the rosary mysteries and the Mass to children.

    We desperately need funds for the printing and the rosary making operation and all the postage. Bishops from foreign countries beg for rosaries and prayer sheets with the Shepherds of Christ Prayers.

    Now we are struggling with the monthly rent on the building and the postage for the foreign mailing of the Priestly Newsletter Book II.

    We always need money for the rosary beads for the schools and the Virgin Mary building.

    We also do a Holy Spirit Novena, but the little book has been out of print for some time because of lack of funds. Teachers like to use it for confirmation. We have prayer chapters using it daily all over the world.

    We want to circulate pictures of the crucifix and Mary's image on the building, we are unable to do this because of lack of funds. Enclosed are pictures of the crucifix and the Virgin Mary building.

    A very important part of our Movement is trying to get people to say the Morning Offering. Here is a card we distribute extensively, especially to Nursing Homes and school children.
   

  
    Here is a short form of consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary that we circulate extensively.
  

   
    Can you help us. It is a real shame to not even have rent on the building Mary appears on.

    We need to tell the world about the Mass. This is another important aspect of our ministry. We have so many writings about the Mass. Mass Book I with the Imprimatur—and all Fr. Carter's writings and many other writings discerned by Fr Carter before his death. 

    It is a shame with all the money in the world not to be able to get the rosary beads to the rosary makers for school children who want them to pray the rosary.

    Our movement is trying to do what Our Lady told us to do at Fatima for peace in the world.

    Can you help us?
  

                            Rita Ring
                            Shepherds of Christ Ministries

    

      

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Messenger:  Jesus wishes that we give our hearts to Him and Mary. 

The following Valentine can be given to Jesus and Mary any day of the year. It is an act of love that would greatly please Him.

Use the following Valentine to fill in your name and the date you gave it to Him.
  

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.

    

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