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

end of excerpt from Response to God's Love

 June 13, 2001 message continues

Messenger:      In short, I want deep oneness with my beloved
              Jesus My Spouse. My life is His. I want to live to serve Him,
              I want to live to promote His Kingdom. I am constantly aware
              of the evil one who wants souls for hell.

                 When asked what makes me happy - my answer is my God.
             I relish the gift of Jesus truly present in the Eucharist, I live to
             be united with Him daily at Holy Mass, my life centers around
             the Mass. I see myself as a great intercessor dwelling in the pure
             and holy Heart of my Mother. I want to be so identified with Jesus in offering
             sacrifice. The more I go to their pure and holy Hearts the more pure is
             my offering of everything I do.

                 My life is lived united to the Mass. I want to be united at every moment.
             I want to be aware as if a bell is tolling at every moment of my life. My life
             is given to help save souls. My focus is praying for the priests and the Church.
             I love them so dearly. I give my life for them and for the whole world, the more I
             become one with Jesus, the more I love each and every soul and want grace to be
             outpoured abundantly to them.

                 I want to spread the say daily card so, so many others will give their lives united
             to the Mass in the morning offering.

                  I want to write and write about the Trinity. I love every Person with
             the deepest love. I feel deeply united to every Person of the Trinity,
             but I feel this deep oneness with God. This oneness permeates
             my relationship with God. God is one and I am always aware of this.
             I exist in this oneness with my God. I hear
             the bells toll 8:30 a.m and at exactly 8:00 a.m. it tolled and it was
             the consecration of the Mass, the host was raised and the
             bells tolled, I love that, there is such emotion inside of
             me from experiences I have had and revelations. I see every moment
             in helping to save souls. The bells tolling brings
             me back to that experience in April 96, and my heart burns and I want
             to cry. But even if I hear bells or not, the constant awareness
             of every moment as a moment of helping in the redemptive
             work of helping to save souls is so much my life.

                 What to say of Jesus, my beloved. He is the initiator in this
             relationship. He acts on my soul, I give myself completely to
             Him, at every Mass I surrender more completely, I see Him
             as acting in running this Movement.

February 5, 2001

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Messenger:      It is His Movement, I only want to do what is God's will.

                 Here is the Prayer He gave me for intimacy with the Lamb.
             He gave me this on the First day of Lent February 25, 1998 and He
             continued to give me writings called "The Spouse of the Lamb"
             every day of Lent until Good Friday that year. Father Carter was there
             in Florida when I first received these writings in Light of
             Christ Church. I still want to cry when I go to that Church and go
             to Communion because I could see Him dressed as a bridegroom
             when I went to Communion and He gave Himself to me so
             intimately. The writings have tremendously helped so many become
             close to Him after the reception of the Eucharist.

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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.

 

 June 13, 2001 message continues

Messenger:  Also the Prayer for Union with Jesus

                  Jesus wants us to say this over and over again to
             keep us focused on Him.

Prayer for Union with Jesus     Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.     I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.     I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.      When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now. -God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994

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Messenger:   I am here after Mass with Jesus now. I love the twenty minutes after
             Communion. I feel deep oneness with God in those twenty minutes.
             I want the moments of consecration to linger, I feel many times I just
             want time to stand still. I feel so one with all of heaven and earth.
             I pray to the Father in the Holy Spirit offering up myself
             united to the Mass for grace to be released.
             I plead and beg through the intercession of Mary dwelling in her Immaculate
             Heart, united so deeply with all the angels and saints interceding for grace
             and united to the souls in purgatory. I feel my deep oneness with
             all members in the body of Christ and I want grace to be outpoured
             to all the souls of the earth, I feel every corner of the earth as if grace is being
             outpoured to all souls.

                 This is my job to do this, this is my job to unite all I do all
             day to the Mass and offer it to God as a sacrifice. It is my job and
             my duty to tell others about the treasures of dwelling in the
             Hearts of Jesus and Mary, the New Adam and New Eve, and uniting to the
             Mass.

             This is reality. God gives us this gift.
             What a gift to boast about.

                  In the messages I have received I hear both Jesus and Mary say
             we will be calling out "Lamb of God who takes away the sins of
             the world, have mercy on us." Jesus wants us to listen to Him
             and heed His warning. He wants us to love Him so deeply. This is the
             month of His Sacred Heart.

                 And we are so one with the Holy Spirit. I feel the Holy Spirit
             is my deep friend. Whenever I am afraid I can call to Him. He
             is my friend. We do all acts in the Holy Spirit. The love of God
             permeates my whole being, I am God's chosen soul, I live
             and I breathe in Him. When I am so one with the Father and Son and Holy Spirit
             it makes my heart burn.

                 I love Father Carter's Tell My People message on the Holy
             Spirit.

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!"

end of excerpt from Tell My People

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Messenger:    Father Carter wrote a book The Spirit Is Present.
             Listen to how the book begins.

Excerpt from The Spirit Is Present

                  "The Spirit is present. He is present in our midst—present to the
             world, to the Christian community, to each of us individually. He is
             among us to deepen the Christic design upon man and his
             world, that Christic image which Christ has imprinted through
             His life, death, and resurrection. The Spirit is present to make us
             more alive, to stir up deep desires which make us thirst for God,
             desires which make us more aware of what it means to love our
             fellowman. In the fourth Eucharistic prayer we say: "Father,
             you so loved the world that in the fullness of time you sent
             your only Son to be our Savior...In fulfillment of your will
             he gave himself up to death, but by rising from the dead, he
             destroyed death and restored life. And that we might live
             no longer for ourselves but for him, he sent the Holy Spirit
             from you, Father, as his first gift to those who believe, to
             complete his work on earth and bring us the fullness of grace."

                "God is a God of life, not of death. The Spirit is present
             to us in order that we may have life and have it more
             abundantly. The Spirit does not in any way destroy or lessen
             anything which is authentically human. His grace rather
             perfects nature, elevates it to a new life, to a new level of
             dynamism.

                 "At times we tend to shy away from the action of the
             Spirit, thinking that if we abandon ourselves to His touch,
             life will be less than we want it to be, different than we
             want it to be. We mistakenly think that a life in the Spirit will
             somehow diminish our zest for living, our capacity for human
             happiness and fulfillment. If we succumb to such thinking, our
             self-made images of what  happiness is, or what contributes to it,
             becomes mirages. These mirages delude us, as the mirages on the
             horizon delude the desert traveler. They never give us the
             happiness they seem to promise.

                 The truth is that the grace of the Spirit, the Christ-life,
             gives us an increased capacity to be alive, vital, happy.
             Our life in Christ, under the Spirit's touch, permeates our total
             existence, infuses our being with a newness, which, if we
             give ourselves to it, brings a happiness and fullness of life
             impossible to the man who refuses the Spirit's gift.

                 The Christian life is human life in the Spirit—divinized
             human life. Life in the Spirit is a man deeply and tenderly
             loving his wife, or a friend sharing with his friend. Life in
             the Spirit is our work life...Life in the Spirit
             is man at play..."

end of excerpt from The Spirit Is Present

Excerpt from the Newsletter Issue 3, 2000 

    "Love, we have said, is the foundation of devotion to the Holy Spirit, as it is also the foundation of Christian perfection. But love as a reflection of God, as His own image, is something that encloses within its simplicity a boundless wealth and a variety of forms. Who can fathom the depths of love?

    "Human love in all its manifestations is admirably in harmony with the love of charity; it is confident in filial love, trusting in friendship, sweet and fruitful in the love of husband and wife, disinterested and tender in the love of a mother. Our love of God must include all these forms of human love; every fiber of our heart must vibrate when the harmonious and full canticle of love bursts forth from it. But since God is one in essence and triune in Persons, our love for Him takes on a particular aspect accordingly as it is directed to each one of the divine Persons.

    "Our love for the Father is tender and confident like that of children; eager to glorify Him as His only-begotten Son taught us to do by word and example. Love for the Father is the intense desire to have His will fulfilled on earth as it is in heaven. Our love for the Son, who willed to become flesh for us, is characterized by the tendency to union with Him and transformation into Him; by imitation of His example, participation in His life, and the sharing of His sufferings and His Cross. The Eucharist, mystery of love, of sorrow, and of union, reveals the characteristics of this love.

    "Love for the Holy Spirit also has its special character, which we should study in order completely to understand devotion to Him. We have explained how the Holy Spirit loves us, how He moves us like a divine breath that draws us to the bosom of God, like a sacred fire that transforms us into fire, like a divine artist who forms Jesus in us. Surely, then, our love for the Holy Spirit should be marked by loving docility, by full surrender, and by a constant fidelity that permits us to be moved, directed, and transformed by His sanctifying action.

    "Our love for the Father tends to glorify Him; our love for the Son, to transform ourselves into Him; our love for the Holy Spirit, to let ourselves be possessed and moved by Him."⁴

NOTES:

4. Archbishop Martinez, op. cit., pp. 67-68,

end of excerpt from the Newsletter

Excerpt from the Newsletter Issue 3, 2000 

    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

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NOTES:

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

end of excerpt from the Newsletter

 June 13, 2001 message continues

Messenger:   Father Carter's priestly life was lived writing about the spiritual
             life. In his 18 books and other numerous publications (the Priestly Newsletter)
             and homilies he wrote and talked about the
             spiritual life. His twenty page Newsletter on the Spiritual
             life is a masterpiece.

Excerpt from March 12, 2001 Daily Message

Messenger: Father Carter wrote about the whole of
                        the spiritual life in the
                        Spirituality Handbook.                       
                     He wrote it as Jesus told him to.

                    Enclosed is the table of contents of the
                        20 page Newsletter.

                    We must consider our relationship
                        with the Father, Son, Holy Spirit,
                        the members of the Church,
                        and the world.

                         In the Newsletter he talked about the overview
                    of the Spiritual life, the life of grace through baptism,
                    our relationship with Jesus who is Mediator.
                    He wrote of our relationship with the Father, the
                    Holy Spirit and Mary. Then he told me (all this from
                    the table of contents of the newsletter) how we live out the
                    spiritual life in the Church. The Heart of the
                    Spiritual life is in the sacraments and the Eucharist.

                    Father says in his newsletter on priesthood

                        "Through the sacrament of Holy Orders, Jesus has
                              provided His Church with priests who play a major
                              role in the dispensing of this life which Jesus
                              has come to give and to give most abundantly."

                    Priesthood is key to the life of the Church.
                    Prayer is the key exercise of the spiritual life.
                    And I quote from Father's Newsletter about our relationship
                          with others.

                        "Growth in the Christ-life gives us an increased
                              awareness of our relationships with others.
                              That is to say, the true Christian is keenly aware
                              that, to a great degree, God intends each of us to
                              press on toward maturity in the spiritual life
                              through proper relationships with our fellow
                              human beings."

                    From Father's Newsletter on the Christian and the World I quote:

                            "God calls us to share His love for His creation.
                        Growth in Christ develops our awareness of this
                        truth. The Christian should have a deeper love for
                        the world than the non-believer."

                    Purification
                        Growth in the spiritual life entails an ongoing
                    and progressive purification.

                    Faith
                        From Father's Newsletter on the Vision of Faith I quote

                               "Through faith we share in God’s knowing activity                  
                           in a special way, and we are able to know God and
                           creation in relationship to God in a supernatural,
                           God-like fashion.
                                If we are to properly progress in the spiritual life,
                           we must allow this vision of faith to more and more
                           penetrate our activities."

                    Hope
                        The virtue of trust is extremely important for
                              growth in the spiritual life.

                        From Response to God's Love I quote

                               "Christian hope is a virtue that allows us to tend toward God
                           in Christ as our absolute fulfillment, our absolute future. Hope
                           allows us to trust that God will grant us the graces necessary to
                           achieve this goal."

                    Humility
                        Humility is a very important virtue given to us
                              for the spiritual journey.
                        One of the blocks to the spiritual life, Father said,
                              was lack of humility.

                    Strength in Weakness
                        We must realize our weakness and see our
                              strength is in Him.

                    Living in the Present Moment
                        I quote from Father

                           "I suggest that one of the most difficult acts
                                 of self-discipline in the spiritual journey
                                 is to concentrate on the present moment."

                        This is necessary Father says for growth in the spiritual life.

                    Surrender to God
                        We must surrender to God. We give ourselves more
                              and more to Jesus.
                        We are guided through the Church

                    Mind and Heart
                        We cannot become heartless and too much
                              focused in our minds.

                    The Mystical Life
                        The mystical life is the relative ultimate development
                              of the spiritual life itself.

                        Father talks about the Hearts of Jesus and Mary and
                              the life of Consecration.

                     Here is the copy of the Table of Contents on his twenty
                           page Newsletter.   

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Messenger:   I also want to point out his wonderful writing on
             grace from Newsletter 2001 #1 where
             he talks about our relationship with the Father,
             Christ, the Holy Spirit, Mary, the members of
             the Church and man and His world. This is
             on disk and very powerful.

                 When I have had ecstatic experiences when I am so
             one in the Trinity, I know the presence
             of God and so much else, in that split second
             I could write volumes. I feel the presence of
             Father, Son and Holy Spirit and Mary all at once.
             God is just present in an overwhelming
             way. I know Him, the one true God.

                 I want to go to heaven and have the beatific vision.
             I want to be possessed by God.
             I want to live a deeper spousal union with our God all the time.

Messenger: Jesus asks us to pray for special things.
                Spread the Blood of Jesus, Consecrate their hearts,
                Cast the Devil far away, ask for the coming of the Holy
                     Spirit.              

                1)  Pray for urgent intention and all involved.
                2)  Pray for Father Mike and Father Laurentin.
                3)  Pray for special Bishops and Archbishops
                4)  Pray for a special man and son,
                     and family and all involved.
                5)  Pray for all priests, Bishops and Cardinals
                     receiving the Newsletter.
                     Pray for grace for them to respond especially
                     by beginning prayer chapters.
                6)  Pray for the telephone operators.
                7)  Pray for communication and business in
                     general.
                8)  Pray for people to respond to fund letters.
                9)  Pray for money to circulate pictures.

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               10)  Pray for funds and grace.
              11)  Pray for all Shepherds of Christ apostles,
                     handmaids, servants.
              12)  Pray for availability Prayer manuals.
              13)  Pray for second priestly Newsletter Book.
              14)  Pray for documentary and all involved.
              15) Pray for special intentions of our donors.

A rosary can be used to pray for healing. It is powerful to unite our prayers to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and pray through the powerful intercession of Our Lady of Clearwater.

In times of trouble, for special prayer, we can use our rosary and pray as follows.

A Rosary for Healing or for Someone with Cancer.

On one Hail Mary bead or as many as you desire, say: 

May God heal                     through the intercession of Our Lady of Clearwater in union with the Mass and all the Masses being celebrated around the world.

Pray the Hail Mary or Hail Mary's then pray this after the Hail Mary.

May the cancer be uprooted and thrown into the sea.

We believe with all our hearts.

After the Glory Be — pray the following petition.

May                     be healed through the intercession of Our Lady of Clearwater if it be the holy will of God.

Note: You can look at Mary on the image rosary while you pray this rosary.

Note: The above section can be printed out from a PDF file, and you can pray the rosary looking at the pictures.

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December 17, 2000, Mary speaks: Help me to circulate my red and blue     Rosary Books and the     prayers my Son gives to you. This is a gift we give you. All the revelations are gifts given to you. My Son is the Light of the World. He is Jesus born in a stable. Will you help me? He is the Light of the World. Help me, help me     reach my children of the world.

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Messenger: Mary wants the Red Rosary Book printed. It will cost $12,000 - $14,000 to get them reprinted. Mary has asked us to always circulate them. They go with the apparition in Florida.

Messenger: The new Blue Rosary Book Volume II of Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary has been printed. It cost $21,000. Please pray with us for funds.