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June 13, 2015
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June 13th
Prayer Service
June 1
Pray for special intentions.
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June 13, 2015 - Feast of the Immaculate Heart
Mary: God the Father has sent me to
deliver this message to the world.
The message I deliver here in
the Building of the Two Hearts with
my Son Jesus – Chief Shepherd of the
Flock, the message of the Shepherds of Christ
Movement – given by the Father
through Jesus and delivered by
Jesus and me, your Heavenly Mother.
R. The Holy Spirit moves in souls as a
Divine breathe –
We cannot see this profound
invisible movement –
The Holy Spirit is the guest of the soul –
The soul wished to be possessed
by God –
The Holy Spirit comes to the soul and
moves in the soul with
unutterable beauty
transforming the soul
more and more in the image of Jesus.
We must be open to the Holy Spirit –
not controlling –
not caved in –
not selfish –
the soul is waiting that transforming
union with God –
the soul is open
the soul is empty
the soul seeks purity
Going to the Immaculate Heart of Mary helps
the soul –
November 4, 2013
Act of consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Dear Blessed Virgin Mary, I consecrate myself to your maternal and Immaculate Heart, this Heart which is symbol of your life of love. You are the Mother of my Savior. You are also my Mother. You love me with a most special love as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates, a movement created by your Son as a powerful instrument for the renewal of the Church and the world. In a return of love, I give myself entirely to your motherly love and protection. You followed Jesus perfectly. You are His first and perfect disciple. Teach me to imitate you in the putting on of Christ. Be my motherly intercessor so that, through your Immaculate Heart, I may be guided to an ever closer union with the pierced Heart of Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock.
Holy Spirit Prayer
Come, Holy Spirit, almighty Sanctifier, God of love, who filled the Virgin Mary with grace, who wonderfully changed the hearts of the apostles, who endowed all Your martyrs with miraculous courage, come and sanctify us. Enlighten our minds, strengthen our wills, purify our consciences, rectify our judgment, set our hearts on fire, and preserve us from the misfortunes of resisting Your inspirations. Amen.
R. The soul sees that it is
operating as God
leads the soul –
In submissiveness
with discernment –
the soul allows God to
move in them to
live – to really live
as God desires –
in purity –
in love –
in seeking wholeness – as God intends
The soul reaches for the infinite
is not strapped by trying
to control that which is finite
and earthy –
A soul is polished more and more
in holiness as the Holy Spirit works
in the soul – the luster
is Divine Beauty and
Light –
reflecting the Light of Jesus,
the Light of the World –
Oh God – Please come and possess
my soul –
I am the soul waiting Your
favor –
You are the Initiator –
I am ready, surrendering
and waiting on Thee
Come to me Lord and Possess
my Soul –
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. Alleluiaend of prayer to the Father
R. We seek to perform God-like actions.
We are docile and open to God's
touch –
Come Holy Spirit Come
We consecrate our hearts to Jesus and Mary –
Isaiah 52: 7-10
How beautiful on the mountains,
are the feet of the messenger
announcing peace,
of the messenger of good news,
who proclaims salvation
and says to Zion,
‘Your God is king!’
The voices of your watchmen!
Now they raise their voices,
shouting for joy together,
for with their own eyes they have seen
Yahweh returning to Zion.
Break into shouts together,
shouts of joy, you ruins of Jerusalem;
for Yahweh has consoled his people,
he has redeemed Jerusalem.
Yahweh has bared his holy arm
for all the nations to see,
and all the ends of the earth
have seen the salvation of our God.
Song: A Song from Jesus
Isaiah 60: 1-6
Arise, shine out,
for your light has come,
and the glory of Yahweh has risen on you.
Look! though night still covers the earth
and darkness the peoples,
on you Yahweh is rising
and over you his glory can be seen.
The nations will come to your light
and kings to your dawning brightness.
Lift up your eyes and look around:
all are assembling
and coming towards you,
your sons coming from far away
and your daughters
being carried on the hip.
At this sight you will grow radiant,
your heart will throb and dilate,
since the riches of the sea will flow to you,
the wealth of the nations come to you;
camels in throngs will fill your streets,
the young camels of Midian and Ephah;
everyone in Saba will come,
bringing gold and incense
and proclaiming Yahweh's praises.
Isaiah 61: 1-2, 10-11
The spirit of Lord Yahweh
is on me
for Yahweh has anointed me.
He has sent me to bring the news
to the afflicted,
to soothe the broken–hearted,
to proclaim liberty to captives,
release to those in prison,
to proclaim a year of favour from Yahweh
and a day of vengeance for our God,
to comfort all who mournI exult for joy in Yahweh,
my soul rejoices in my God,
for he has clothed me
in garments of salvation,
he has wrapped me in a cloak
of saving justice,
like a bridegroom wearing his garland,
like a bride adorned in her jewels.
For as the earth sends up its shoots
and a garden makes seeds sprout,
so Lord Yahweh makes saving justice
and praise
spring up in the sight of all nations.
Sing: Veni Sancte Spiritus
R. Come Holy Spirit Come and
fill our hearts with Your
Light –
Come Holy Spirit and sanctify us –
Come Holy Spirit work on the Heart of
Mary to mold us more and
more in the image of Jesus –
Isaiah 61: 9-11
Their race will be famous
throughout the nations
and their offspring
throughout the peoples.
All who see them will admit
that they are a race
whom Yahweh has blessed.I exult for joy in Yahweh,
my soul rejoices in my God,
for he has clothed me
in garments of salvation,
he has wrapped me in a cloak
of saving justice,
like a bridegroom wearing his garland,
like a bride adorned in her jewels.
For as the earth sends up its shoots
and a garden makes seeds sprout,
so Lord Yahweh makes saving justice
and praise
spring up in the sight of all nations.
R. My heart exults in the Lord, my Savior
1 Samuel 2: 1, 4-5, 6-7, 8
Hannah then prayed as follows:
My heart exults in Yahweh,
in my God is my strength lifted up,
my mouth derides my foes,
for I rejoice in your deliverance.
The bow of the mighty has been broken
but those who were tottering
are now braced with strength.
The full fed
are hiring themselves out for bread
but the hungry need labour no more;
the barren woman bears sevenfold
but the mother of many is left desolate.
Yahweh gives death and life,
brings down to Sheol and draws up;
Yahweh makes poor and rich,
he humbles and also exalts.
He raises the poor from the dust,
he lifts the needy from the dunghill
to give them a place with princes,
to assign them a seat of honour;
for to Yahweh belong the pillars
of the earth,
on these he has poised the world.
Luke 2: 41-51
Every year his parents used to go to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up for the feast as usual. When the days of the feast were over and they set off home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem without his parents knowing it. They assumed he was somewhere in the party, and it was only after a day’s journey that they went to look for him among their relations and acquaintances. When they failed to find him they went back to Jerusalem looking for him everywhere.
It happened that, three days later, they found him in the Temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them, and asking them questions; and all those who heard him were astounded at his intelligence and his replies. They were overcome when they saw him, and his mother said to him, ‘My child, why have you done this to us? See how worried your father and I have been, looking for you.’ He replied, ‘Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?’ But they did not understand what he meant. He went down with them then and came to Nazareth and lived under their authority. His mother stored up all these things in her heart.
R. Jesus loved the Father's will –
Jesus shows us how He obeyed
His Father's will –
This must be our desire if
we follow Jesus –
We may follow God's will for
us and others may suffer because
we do His will, but
the will of the Father must be
first in our life.
We, by doing God's will, may hurt
loved ones –
Mary always perfectly complied
to God's will. Mary loved God's will,
this was her joy to do God's will –
Luke 1: 46-55
The Magnificat
And Mary said:
My soul proclaims
the greatness of the Lord
and my spirit rejoices
in God my Saviour;
because he has looked upon
the humiliation of his servant.
Yes, from now onwards
all generations will call me blessed,
for the Almighty
has done great things for me.
Holy is his name,
and his faithful love extends age after age
to those who fear him.
He has used the power of his arm,
he has routed the arrogant of heart.
He has pulled down princes
from their thrones
and raised high the lowly.
He has filled the starving with good things,
sent the rich away empty.
He has come to the help
of Israel his servant,
mindful of his faithful love
—according to the promise
he made to our ancestors—
of his mercy to Abraham
and to his descendants for ever.
Sing: Holy Is His Name
We consecrate the Church and the world
to the Immaculate Heart and the Sacred Heart
in as far as we are able –
June 6, 2015 - Eve of Precious Body and Blood of Jesus
Month of the Sacred Heart
R. See high, see low –
See as you desire –
Our eyes are a wonderful gift given
to us from God
–
We can open our eyes or close our
eyes –
We can look straight ahead –
look high or
look low –
We can see with our eyes –
We can scan the scene from
right to left –
We can focus on trying to see the
big picture with our eyes –
We can drive a car and see with
other cars moving how to
go in union with them.
We can watch a play at the theater
but if it is boring we can close our
eyes and go to sleep.
We can watch the Mass and see
the priest –
What we see can make us cry –
What we see can help lead us to action –
What we see can help take us from danger
What we see can lead us to a new endeavor –
We can see a new born baby –
We can see a person laid out in a coffin –
We can read and learn with our eyes –
Were not our eyes a gift given to us
by God –
Last night Mary appeared to me in the
Virgin Mary building on the 5th –
She appeared in the deepest –
brightest light I cannot describe or
compare to any light I know –
it was beyond and
It's depth and intensity of light –
I cannot describe
She was beautiful and seeing her
face before me, in the mystical
was –
alive and different – it did not
remain the same –
She had given me messages –
prior to this intense apparition
of celestial beauty – I cannot
begin to describe
The messages will be transcribed and
published –
But then she appeared and she did
not speak at all –
It was the vision –
The vision of intensity – I was so
wrapped in it and could not
say to lead the Hail Marys –
My physical abilities were
numbed as I was enveloped
in her vision before me –
the light beyond description –
the depth so deep and so very
real –
the lady as she was encased in
this celestial aura was
deep in that heavenly vision
a Mother alive in celestial
light –
in the front of the depth while
the light was never exhausted –
behind and around her
A light it seemed deeper than the
ocean and farther than any
sea –
solid and bright with a light
unknown to me
And her beauty in celestial surroundings,
her beauty mystical – beyond anything
I have ever seen –
No breath or depth – no high or low,
no light can be a measure for
the opening to this window of
celestial beauty –
Forever – Forever – God tells us of
heaven –
A foreverness was this vision like
the scripture
1 Corinthians 2:9
"What no eye has seen and no ear has heard, what the mind of man cannot visualise; all that God has prepared for those who love him;"
R. Did you ever see the sun dance on
the ocean, or a sun dressed
body of water –
There is movement – like nothing
else you know –
When she appeared this vision is
not static or like what we
see with regard its movement –
I see no movement
It is –
Ever changing, beauteous and without
a beginning or an end to what
I am seeing –
It is, I see no change, but it
is alive in beauty and
different entirely that I am
drawn into it and almost unable
to talk, to use my physical
things –
I am in the intensity of this apparition –
in it and it is and it has
depth and light and beauty and is
alive –
I can't describe it at all –
If I can see the sun dancing on a
body of endless water, can I
tell you of it so you can enjoy
the experience and try to describe
the movement, the light, the
depth – the sky that meets
way out in beautiful blue
against the silver waters dancing
in radiant light –
You may identify with what you
have seen of this and enjoy it
with me, but
The vision of Mary –
the living appearance of her –
the light –
the Virgin Mother as she showed
herself in a celestial way
to me –
I cannot even find anything to
identify this with and
Yet it was so real –
so beautiful –
so that it captivated me deeply
to be enthralled in it –
I cannot describe
But I know more of eternity –
that with depth and breath
we do not know or
comprehend –
We are blind to the celestial reward,
relationship with God in intense
purity and unity – eternally –
We are on earth and we measure with
our spoons and ounces, we see
with eyes veiled
And God is beyond and other and
yet He has given us Jesus Christ in
the Eucharist to come to us
and feed the sharing in His life
we have from baptism –
If He spoke now – He would say
reach – reach and reach –
go out and spread the Good News –
Man is so stilted in his ways
and he can be so bolted to the
earth, but we were created
in the image and likeness of God –
created to reach to the heights –
to dig deeply into the Mystery –
to know that the unseen is real –
to not be stifled because we
stand in a cement sidewalk
wrapped in the beauty of our
own footprint –
The footprints we follow are
those of the Son of God for we
were created in His
image and likeness
The seen and the unseen –
Do we see at all beyond
our eyes –
the Mystery of God –
the Mystery of Jesus –
the Mystery of the Incarnation
the Mystery of the sacramental
life of the Church –
the Mystery of Jesus truly present
Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity
in the Eucharist
Reach – Reach – Reach –
See the unseen –
Dig deep into the Heart of Jesus
Beg for the Holy Spirit to fill us with
His gifts to see, to
understand, to know,
to love, to be holy,
to fear God and to be
full of wisdom and council –
This is relationship of us –
human creatures with
the Divine God –
This is about the gift of baptism –
The sharing in Divine Life –
This is about being nurtured
with the Bread of Life
the Eucharist and His Word –
This is about the unseen and
the seen –
This is about preparing ourselves
for the goal of eternal
happiness –
Seeing God face to face –
Being wrapped in the beatific vision –
My people this is about Mary
appearing in the Virgin Mary building
and showing me last night –
her beauty that I cannot
even describe and
when she appeared that
way – she said nothing –
she just took me into
this beauty and I behold her
and what she showed
me and
in the end
R. How can I
draw
this?
We are earthly and
He is heavenly and
yet He wants to reveal
secrets of Himself to
us and have an intimate
relationship with us –
Mary wants a personal relationship
with us –
She is our spiritual Mother –
Open your eyes and your hearts to
God and to our Mother at Our Side
end of June 6, 2015
Excerpt from June 5, 2015 Rosary
Mary is Queen of Heaven and Earth
5. And Mary speaks and she says: I want to be your friend. I want to be close to you. I want you to know me, as your Mother, as your Spiritual Mother. I want you to know me personally. I am your Spiritual Mother.
6. Mary: I have appeared here, because your Heavenly Father has allowed me to appear here, to tell this world that Jesus wants you so close to His Heart. My heart is Immaculate. If you go to my heart, I will put you in the Heart of my Son. There, you will know the greatest treasure of all. Oh my little children, listen to me. I am your Mother, and you are my spiritual children. I will put you close in the Heart of Jesus, but you must let go of anger, and jealousy, of pride and envy. Do not give into satan, who aims to stop you, my children, my children. I cry to you, for Jesus has chosen you to this special vocation. I am Mary, the most perfect Handmaid of the Lord. Listen to me.
7. Mary: I want to be close to you now. I want you to hear me speak to you. I want you to know that I appear in this building. I want you to meditate on the words that I tell you, that you will listen to me and spread the message to others. Oh sweet children of mine God has chosen, chosen you and brought you here this day, to hear this message, the message, from your Heavenly Mother, the message from God the Father, the message from my Son, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Let go, come to my heart, beg the Holy Spirit to fill your hearts now. What do you hold onto? Why? Why do you hold onto darkness? Is your security in trying to control things yourself, when God is God, and you are His creature?
R. She is so pretty and then there is all this light around her.
Sing: Come Holy Spirit
R. She's just beautiful. This is the delight of my heart, to where she really comes, a lot of times, just at the end of the rosary. It's how she used to do it. But the light and the beauty. And she cries to us –
Mary: Listen, my children. Children, I call you children, for you are my children. You are dependent on God. I am your Mother. Be little and humble. Be docile. Be responsive. Know that your Mother Mary, appears here to deliver this message to you. I am a Mother of Love. I am Our Lady of Light. I am Our Lady of the Holy Rosary.
R. I just want to keep just looking at her, and just watching her, and watching the light turn lighter.
(pause)
R. Wow!
8. R. She's just so beautiful.
9. Hail Mary
10. Mary: And I ask you last, that you pray for the souls on the edge of death. This is my request, my children, that you pray for the other children, for many have lost their way, and many will go to hell this day, forever and ever. Be holy and be united. Do not give into satan to divide you. Do not sin against God. Be kind and loving to one another. Oh my children, satan is real, and he wants to stop you. Do not give into him.
R. She is so beautiful. It's just all color, that color of lightness that you can't describe, a light that is beyond a light. A light that is vivid, and at the same time, is so light. It's strange.
R. I seek You dear God. I want You dear Holy Spirit. Please help that message that Mary is giving as she appears in her light, to penetrate our hearts, to serve You more ardently. She is so beautiful.
(pause)
R. I have never seen anything like this. I don't want to speak. I just want to let go – be lost in it. It's just beyond anything you can imagine.
end of June 5, 2015 excerpt
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.
R. Jesus is the Most tender in
Heart –
God comes to us and when He
abundantly fills a soul
we are loving –
God is love –
For God to abundantly
fill us – we act lovingly
because He is love.
We seek His presence in us –
Father, Son and Holy Spirit so that we
will be more and more filled by Him and
as He operates in us – we
are loving.
We cannot even imagine
how much love God has for
the world, for us, for the Church.
We want God to come and possess
our soul and operate in us
as it says in the Prayer for Union.
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
Excerpt from June 4, 2015
August 13, 1995
Mary: Come to Me, My little children, come into my motherly heart. My heart is filled with love for you. I loved the Father in deepest love. I loved Jesus and I lived with Jesus, and I watched Jesus, I watched my child at His birth and all through His life, I watched Him all through the Passion, I saw Him suffer and die, I saw my Son in His resurrected body and ascending into heaven. Come to my heart, share in my heart the love that I have for my Son Jesus. Love Jesus with my heart, love the Holy Spirit, my Spouse, more and more. I am Mary your mother, it is in coming to my heart, and loving God through my heart that the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph on this earth as more and more souls dwell in my Immaculate Heart. I love my little children of this world with such tender love, I love each one of My children. As you love through my heart you will love your brothers with this tender love. God calls you to love God and love one another. Come to my heart, live and dwell in my heart. As I love, you will love more and more. My dear little children, I am Mary, your mother, your mother to lead you on your way.
. . .
R. Is it not that we recognize the
enormous gift of Mary Immaculate,
our beloved Mother that we see her
purity as a model to us, despite before
our eyes we see the sinfulness of
those women God has called to the
religious life, failing to be witnesses
in the world, when Mary clearly shows
us her impeccable purity and longitudal
Reign as the Queen of Heaven and Earth.
What exactly does it mean, of Mary
so pure to be a Queen. In the impurity
of women, God called to be holy,
we wait for those women to recognize
the heights God has called human
women, when He gives us Mary as
Immaculate Model of the human
race.
Satan despises the purity of Mary
and therefore hates women called
by God to serve as religious
handmaids of God. Mary in crushing
the head of satan, shows women of
religious vocation, why it is vital
that they model themselves after the
Lady Clothed with the Sun and
implore Mary as their dear, dear
Mother and friend.
A Mother is one who is looked up to
and therefore implies the humbleness
of a child, one dependent and needy.
Are not women and men of the human
race, who have their tainted human
natures, called by God to be grateful
for Mary, Immaculate, conceived
without sin, Mother of the human race.
A Mother implies a child is
aware of their littleness and
dependency on the Mother. A Mother
implies a special bonding there
between Mother and child. So
therefore is it not necessary
that we see – when God calls us
to love – there is a key to growing
in relationship and love by the
desire of Jesus for us to venerate
Mary's Immaculate Heart – next
to Jesus' Sacred Heart.
Impeccable purity – we see in this
loving union of these Two Hearts.
Jesus in Blue Book IV showed me His love
for Mary, a human person and His
endearment for her the highest
human person and in Blue Book IV I
see Mary's dedication and love for
her Son – telling us what it is
to be handmaid, disciple of
the Son of God.
And so therefore paramount after 21 years
of apparitions of Mary, this building
of the Two Hearts I cannot ever
deny that such a gift implies
to me – God did this to impress
upon us – Mary's role in our
spiritual life – in advancing
in loving relationships – in
our role as spiritual Mother.
How can I deny this magnificent
gift – to have shared in her
beauty and to know how God
has revealed knowledge to me
of love, of relationship, of
mystery by sending Mary as
messenger to me.
Mary, model, Mother, Queen of
Peace, Mother of Wisdom,
Heart of Golden love for her
children. Mary is the key to
greater loving relationships
with God and with brothers
and sisters. Brothers and sisters
implies a Mother above them,
bringing love into that union,
but if we fail to see the significance
here in the Virgin Mary building
of Mother at Our Side – we are
indeedly blinded by satan who
hates her and doesn't want us
ever even to see relationship is deepened
in our hearts, knowing Mary as
a key to love relationships of the
heart.
What a gift Mary is, Our Heavenly
Father said in the Father's Message and
how He was so offended by how we
have treated Mary.
Do you want to know loving relationships
in your heart – go to her Immaculate
Motherly Heart of Love. Go to Mary –
God the Father – sent Mary as a messenger,
as a sign, as a gift in this Virgin Mary
building for us to see ourselves as children of Mary.
Children are little, are dependent,
know they have needs, oh babies
love their Mother – babies want Mama
home – babies know when Mama is
gone – babies know when Mama comes
home –
Babies at the beast – touching, feeling,
skin together, formed in the Mother's
womb – Intimacy –
God the Father has sent Mary to me now,
for 21 years. Do you see the message
from God the Father in that –
Intimacy with Mary, spiritual
Mother, perfect handmaid of the Lord.
And what day did God call, but the 5th
because of the 5 blasphemies against
Mary and the 5 wounds of Christ.
How did Christ suffer the wounds
in His hands for me – How do we
honor Mary in her Immaculate Conception?
How did Jesus suffer with the nail
wounds in the feet – How is
Mary blasphemed in her Virginity?
How was the Heart of Christ pierced
with a lance, how is Mary, our
Mother, blasphemed in her Motherhood,
From His pierced Heart the Church
was born – Water for baptism and
Blood for the Eucharist and Mary
is blasphemed by people teaching
their children to not love Mary.
Mary is spiritual Mother and
earthly Mothers try to teach
their children to dislike this
key to loving relationships
that can help intimacy in
heart and soul with God to
grow and
Finally, Finally –
Blasphemies shown here – so
awful breaking the image
glass of the image face
of Mary –
R. So Mary begged to put her
statue as a reminder of her
Spiritual Motherhood – in every
home – with the destroyed
broken glass of her image
face in the statues.
Blasphemy 5 – destroying
the images of Mary – Look what
was done to the image here in Clearwater!
Should we not make the highest
reparation to Mary and Jesus and
God the Father and the Holy Spirit for
the destroying of the Image
head here by putting the
statues of Mary in the homes
with the precious image glass –
How far can we make the little
glass go – for she wants it to
reach – every home –
We don't need big pieces Mary
said – very, very small pieces
of the glass because there is only
so much to go around for years to
come.
Blasphemies are the way satan tries
to hurt relationships with Mary –
Mary was conceived without sin –
Satan hates that a human person
was conceived without sin and
carried God in her womb –
Satan hates the Son of God –
Satan hates Mary –
Satan doesn't want adoration given
to Jesus.
Satan hates the Eucharist, the
adoration in China 24 hours a day.
Satan hates the 5th and the 13ths and
God outpours, outpours His grace,
when we gather and pray on the 5ths
and 13ths –
Satan hates the Two Hearts
Jesus wanted this message from
Fatima
Jesus wants His Heart
venerated next to Mary's –
All these messages about July 31, 1994 Words of Jesus to
Members of "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,
how important the devotion
to the Two Hearts are –
Shepherds of Christ Associates:
feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus
(The Jesuits)
R. Ask yourself –
Why is it so hard to spread
these Prayer Chapters to the
Two Hearts when Jesus and Mary have
asked for this at Fatima almost
100 years ago and
Now with Fr. Carter and me for
over 20 years.
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Excerpt from Mother at Our Side - The Cross Leads to Life by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.
Renunciation is another form of dying with Jesus, which, over the years, has been given much attention in the teaching of the spiritual masters. Indeed, the New Testament itself attests to the undeniable role that renunciation plays in the Christian life. The gentle St. Luke, for example, teaches Jesus' message of renunciation—a message which Jesus Himself lived. Renunciation was obviously not the only aspect of Christ's life, but it was an undeniable one. Christians, because they are followers of Christ, must also include renunciation in their lives regardless of their individual vocations. Again, it is well to remind ourselves that we embrace renunciation for the sake of life. This was the purpose of renunciation in Jesus' life, and it must have the same purpose in ours.
Acts of renunciation are life-promoting regarding ourselves and others. Let us always remember what Our Lady of Fatima has said: Pray, pray, a great deal, and make sacrifices for sinners, for many souls go to Hell because they have no one to make sacrifices and pray for them.24 And the angel said to the Fatima visionaries: Make everything you do a sacrifice, and offer it as an act of reparation for the sins by which God is offended, and as a petition for the conversion of sinners.25 All our good actions, including the enjoyable and pleasant ones, can be offered as sacrifices. In the stricter sense, our sacrifices include those actions which involve doing that which is difficult or which involves acts of renunciation. . . .
There are, of course, many other forms of carrying the cross besides those of self-discipline and renunciation. There is that very common form of bearing the cross which is involved in the proper living of every day. There is nothing dramatic about this form of suffering, and, precisely because it seems so uneventful, it is difficult to properly relate to it in a consistent fashion. On particular occasions, we might feel that a quick death by martyrdom would be easier than the daily dying which involves all sorts of little sufferings or crosses. But this daily dying is a precious type of suffering, and to grow in the realization of its importance is a significant sign of spiritual progress. It is a sign that we have the spiritual discernment to comprehend that God so often situates the cross within the ordinariness of everyday life. . . .
In conclusion, let us again remind ourselves that the cross is meant to lead us to greater life—here and in eternity. Let us always strive to live by the words Jesus has left as: Then he said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. (Lk. 9:23-24).
NOTES:
Our Lady's Peace Plan, op. cit., back cover.
R. Mary is Mother of our Christ-life –
Mary is Mother of the Christian virtues.
The 3 Most important are
faith, hope and love –
From the message of the angel at Fatima 1916 we have: "My God, I
believe, I adore, I hope and I love You! I
ask pardon of You for those who do not
believe, do not adore, do not hope and do
not love You." Then, rising he
said: "Pray thus. The Hearts of Jesus and
Mary are attentive to the voice of your
supplications."
3
3.
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.
Fr. Carter says
"Faith is the commitment of one's
entire being to the truth of Jesus.
We must live the truth of Jesus,
not merely intellectually
assent to it."
Excerpt from Mother at Our Side by Father Edward Carter, S.J.
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Mother Of Our Christian Virtues (excerpt)
Faith
. . .We properly comprehend religious truth only when we live it, savor it, experience it to the depths of our being. How much more we understand the truth of Christ in its wisdom, power, and beauty when we not only believe this truth with our graced intellects, but also allow it to permeate and transform our entire existence. As a corollary, we see the danger of intellectually assenting to Christ's truth without attempting to live accordingly. Faith can grow weak and even die if there is a constant and serious division between what we believe and the manner in which we live.
When we live according to faith, we are living according to a vision of God, humanity, and the rest of creation. Faith tells us things about God and creation we could either not otherwise know or know only with greater difficulty and with less certainty. A good example of the former is the doctrine of the Blessed Trinity. Reason can never arrive at this sublime truth. Only the intellect that has been elevated with the grace of faith can believe in the Triune God. If we are to progress in the spiritual life, we must allow this vision of faith to more and more influence our activities. Increasingly, we should become contemplatives in action. The more we allow Mary to lead us into such a way of life, the more our lives will have meaning for ourselves as well as for the betterment of the lives of people around us. As our mother, she happily guides us to the peace we can find as contemplatives in action.
The vision of faith should inspire us to action according to our vocation, talents, opportunity, time, and energy. We should always strive to make the world more reflective of Christ's image. To the extent we do not, we are betraying the vision of faith.
Mother Mary, deepen our faith. Help us to follow ever more closely the light of faith. And we pray, dear Mother, that you will lead us ever closer to your Son Who is Himself the source of faith's light.
Hope
Christian hope is a virtue that allows us to desire God as the goal of our existence. Hope also allows us to trust that God will grant us the graces necessary to achieve this goal.
The necessity of hope in our lives is obvious. Without a sustained desire for God we will not be able to live as we should. If God is not our goal, then our lives will be miserably shaped by something infinitely less, whether it be money, sex, social status, or anything else that can grip the human heart as an unauthentic end rather than as a legitimate means to God.
Without God's grace we cannot initially attain supernatural life, we cannot maintain ourselves in it, and we cannot grow in it. At times God allows us to strikingly and intensely experience how helpless we are without Him. Such episodes in the spiritual life can be very painful, but they are also opportunities for great growth. We are meant to emerge from these experiences with an increase of trust in God. We realize how weak we are in ourselves, but how strong we are if we rely on God.
One of Mary's functions as our spiritual mother is to help us grow in trust. In countless ways Mary shows us her maternal love. If we are to love her in return, if we are to allow her to increasingly possess us, we must trust her.
We should always remember: when we trust Mary, we are putting our trust in God; when we abandon ourselves to Mary, we are abandoning ourselves to God.
Love
St. Paul tells us:
If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing. (1 Cor. 13:1-3).
The above words of Paul point out the great importance of the virtue of love. Love is the Christian virtue. Jesus Himself has summarized Christianity in terms of love; all the other virtues variously serve love's purpose.
As Jesus walked this earth, His life was a life of love. He mightily loved His Father. With a deep and tender love He loved all members of the human race, and He would die an agonizing and horrible death for them. One of the members of this race He loved in an extraordinarily special way—His Mother Mary. And she was the one person created who could return that love in a perfect way. By following her example, we can also learn to love more perfectly.
The poverty, the hiddenness, the disappointments, the weariness, the joy and the happiness, the pain and the agony—all that constituted the earthly life of Christ was experienced within the framework of love. Jesus loved in everything He did—tenderly, manfully, with understanding and sympathy. He loved with a complete devotedness and a deep, sincere concern for the individual. He loved with a passion for that which is true and good and beautiful. He loved with a complete conformity to His Father's will. He loved always and completely. He loved with a gift of Himself, always pouring Himself out, even to the extreme of death on the wood of a cross. This was the poignant beauty of Christ's life.
Christ shows us His Heart as the symbol of this life of love. It is a symbol which calls for our love in return. The Heart of Christ, source of our own capacity to love, calls us to imitation. Christ, in revealing His Heart to us as symbol of His love, invites us to the closest discipleship as He leads us along the path of love.
We can be tempted to reject this marvelous example of love which Jesus has left us. We can seek our own greatness and fulfillment in a manner which necessarily results in disappointment. We can strive after greatness in ways which God does not intend. These wayward wanderings, however, result in a feeling of dissatisfaction and frustration and we will eventually come to realize they have betrayed us because they are not rooted in Christ and His way of life—the way of true personal greatness.
We grow as Christians as we grow in love. We exercise this love within the milieu of the human condition. This is the only framework we have for achieving our greatness, and, consequently, we must not shirk this human condition. Jesus did not shirk it, but rather accepted it and manifested His greatness within it, despite the pain and even agony that the human condition at times heaped upon Him. It is true that Jesus rejoiced during the course of His life because of the goodness, sincerity, and response of some of those with whom He dealt. For example, the love which Mary and Joseph showered upon Jesus gave Him great joy. During His life, however, Jesus often suffered because of the evil side of humans—their pettiness, cowardice, insensitivity, selfishness, egotism. In other words, Jesus suffered at the hands of others because they were not what they should have been. Nonetheless, these experiences did not thwart the greatness of Jesus. Jesus was always the tremendous lover, and He loved even at those times when it was very painful to do so.
As Christ suffered because of others, we, too, as we try to love, suffer because of others. We may suffer because others do not always understand us—this can be true even of those who dearly love us. We may suffer because some do not appreciate what we do for them, sometimes at great personal cost, or because others reject us, or make us the objects of their meanness and selfishness. We may suffer because there are some who ignore us. At times we suffer so much that we are tempted to quit loving as we should and are tempted to withdraw from the pain of giving ourselves to an egotistic world. To surrender to such a temptation, however, is to forget what true Christian greatness really is—namely, a life of love for God and others, a love that does not shrink from the pain that results from loving in an imperfect world, a love that is meant to become greater regardless of the way others might treat us. Christian love, then, accepts both the pain and the joy of life and carries on under both conditions.
We should ask Mary our mother, who takes such great pride in us when we love as we should, to lead us daily to the Heart of her Son. This Heart, burning furnace of charity, is the source we must draw from if we are to love and progress in love.
Lead us, dear Mother, to this Heart of your Son. As we rest secure in the love of your Immaculate Heart, instill within us daily a growing desire to take on the likeness of the Heart of Jesus. Obtain for us, dearest Mother, the grace to make the Heart of Jesus the center of our existence. Living within this pierced Heart of Jesus, we will more and more be consumed with the desire to love God and neighbor. We will become increasingly aware that to truly live is to love.
Prudence
Prudence is that virtue which helps us to make the proper decisions in the exercise of our Christian life. Prudence aids us in making correct choices so that we do God's will in all areas of Christian existence.
Prudence is meant to influence every aspect of our participation in the mystery of Christ. It is always our guide as we strive to grow in the putting on of Christ.
What state of life does God wish me to embrace? What kind of work does he desire of me within that vocation? Among the various ways of expressing love, how am I to love God and others at this particular time? Am I working too much or too little? Am I too dependent upon others or not dependent enough? Prudence helps answer these and other questions concerning the Christ-life.
Some people think that prudence is merely an attitude of caution, an instinct that always leads us to take what seems to be the less dangerous path. True, prudence will lead us to choices of this nature—if God's will indicates this type of action—but prudence is also concerned with the bold and the daring, with taking risks, with magnanimous action. Again, the guiding principle is God's will. The prudent Christian will act boldly or daringly if, after taking the proper means to discern the divine will, she or he decides that God is indeed leading in such a direction.
If we are to be truly prudent persons, we must be persons of prayer. We need the light of prayer to see what decisions are to be made, what actions are to be undertaken. We need the strength of prayer to act upon the given light.
In her earthly journey, Mary was a most prayerful person and a most prudent one. Let us ask our mother to help us grow in the virtue of prudence. The Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary so bids us to call upon the prudent Virgin: "Virgin most prudent, pray for us."
Fortitude
Christian fortitude, or courage, is that virtue which disposes us to face in mature fashion whatever difficulties we encounter in Christ's service. The necessity of this virtue is evident from our inner experience—we have a tendency to shrink from that which either poses difficulty or frightens us. Apparently, numerous Christians never develop as they should because they do not consistently confront that which is hard and difficult in a proper fashion.
We should not think that courage is a virtue which we need only in times of extraordinary difficulty. As with all the Christian virtues, courage usually finds its expression within the prosaic framework of everydayness. The rather uneventful duties of our state of life day in and day out demands fortitude. All vocations face this challenge, and to evade the challenge is to hinder our growth in Christ.
At times, of course, courage must be exercised concerning matters of great importance, such as the decision involving one's choice of state of life. This type of decision can demand the greatest fortitude in certain instances. Any committed Christian who seriously pursues the development of the spiritual life will, to some extent, experience interior trials of one kind or the other. Whatever form the difficulty may assume, however, the dedicated Christian realizes the need for fortitude.
Mary did not live an easy life. In her greatness of grace, she exercised fortitude on a daily basis. At times she had to draw upon her virtue of courage in a special way. And at that terrible moment beneath the cross, her courage was tested to the utmost. What great sorrow then pierced her Heart! And what extraordinary courage and love it took for Mary to stand by her Son in His most awful moment. Even the greatest pietas of Michaelangelo and others fall short of capturing the awful reality of the scene and the courage it demanded of Mary.
Mary, then, has with courage faced the difficult in extraordinary fashion. In all our difficulties let us fly to the protection of this dear, loving mother. She will help us grow in the realization that facing the difficult is an essential part of being a Christian. She will help us live these words of Jesus: "If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me." (Lk. 9:23).
Justice
The virtue of justice bids us to give others what is their due. We must respect the rights of others. For example, we must respect the life, good name, and the property of others because they have rights concerning these values. Regarding one's right to life, we have a very timely application of this—the rights of the unborn, and we should all do our part in working against the terrible injustice of abortion. The fatalities which the United States has suffered in all her wars is less than one half of the total number of deaths the unborn suffer in one year here in the United States through abortion. And, of course, abortions are being performed all over the world—not just in the United States.
The world of work, professional service, and commerce also involve various applications of justice. The laborer must give an honest day's work and the employer is obligated to pay a just wage. The teacher must realize his or her duty to students by properly preparing classes and professional updating. The doctor must maintain proper medical knowledge in justice to his or her patients and manufacturers of goods as well as wholesale and retail sellers must establish just prices.
The Christian must also be aware of obligations regarding the great social problems that plague one's own country and nations around the world. We must listen to our Mother Mary.
Temperance
The attitude of moderation, which has traditionally been called the virtue of Christian temperance, allows us to relate properly to sense pleasure. God wants us to enjoy what is pleasurable, but He wants us to do so according to His will.
Without an attitude of temperance, a person's life becomes soft and selfish, given over to the wrongful pursuit of pleasure. Insofar as a person's life is thus misdirected, to that extent it fails in service to God and others.
There is an aspect of temperance that one can overlook—that the person who practices temperance enjoys the pleasurable more than does the person who does not. One who lacks temperance is actually a slave to his or her desires. These desires, to the extent they are inordinate, can never be satisfied, and, consequently, become insatiable. Grace does not destroy nature; it brings it to a perfection or fulfillment it could not otherwise attain. Our God-given capacity to enjoy what is pleasurable actually is enhanced by the virtue of temperance.
We should pray, not only for our own growth in temperance, but also especially for those whose very salvation is threatened because of the wrongful pursuit of sense pleasure. Our Lady of Fatima told Jacinta, one of the three young visionaries: More souls go to Hell because of sins of the flesh than for any other reason.26
Humility
My soul proclaims the greatness of
the Lord;
my spirit rejoices in God my savior.
For he has looked upon his handmaid's
lowliness;
behold, from now on will all ages
call me blessed.
The Mighty One has done great things
for me,
and holy is his name. (Lk. 1:46-50).The above passage is a portion of Mary's "Magnificat." One of its lessons is that of humility. In her song of praise Mary expresses perfect humility. She realized that without God she was nothing, but that, because of the divine largess, God had made her great.
Humility is the realization of the truth that I am a creature of God. Humility is also the implementation of this truth in daily living. Humility is not a process of self-depreciation, or of telling myself that I am no good, that I have very little to contribute. Humility moves me to look at myself as I actually am. It moves me to look at both my good and bad points, and, very importantly, to follow up with appropriate attitudes and actions. (Regarding Mary's humility, there was, of course, only the need to recognize her greatness as coming forth from God, since she was completely sinless.)
Since humility is based on truth, it never demands that I deny my particular gifts, my unique talents. Certainly Mary did not do this. If I do not properly recognize my gifts, I will not thank God properly, nor will I be in the most advantageous position for the proper use and development of my talents. I should, then, recognize the good in myself, while simultaneously realizing the source of all good—God Himself.
Humility also enables me to look realistically upon life in the human condition. Being humble means I realize that precisely because I am human, I will experience pain. Precisely because I am exposed to the human condition not only in its pleasant aspects, but also in its dimension of sin, suffering, and anguish, I will suffer—and sometimes because of the wrongdoings of others. Humility allows me to accept this without bitterness, and allows me to react properly.
Humility also assists me in realizing and implementing the truth that I am a social creature—one intended by God to help my neighbor, and, in turn, one intended to be helped by others. It also assists me in accepting my fundamental self. God has created me with certain basic talents, with a certain fundamental temperament. Humility bids me to accept this God-intended self, while always striving to develop, improve, mature.
Humility likewise assists me in accepting my present life situation in so far as I can determine this is God's here-and-now design for me. If I am not properly humble, I can quietly and subtly rebel regarding the present. How unlike Mary, who did not disdain the simple and the ordinary, but rather, found her fulfillment in them as she saw the here-and-now opportunities to say "yes" to God.
We can easily overlook the various applications of humility, so we need to make the special effort to become more aware of humility's role in Christian living. Scripture points out the necessity of doing this:
God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. (Jas. 4:6).
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26. Our Lady's Peace Plan, op. cit.., p. 9.
R. Mary is Mother of the Church –
if we are to do what God
wants with this mission –
we must see Mary in her
role –
as Mother of the Church and
intercede through her
powerful intercession.
Excerpt from Mother at Our Side, by Father Edward J. Carter S.J.
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"Mary is present in the Church as the Mother of Christ, and at the same time as that Mother whom Christ, in the mystery of the Redemption, gave to humanity in the person of the Apostle John. Thus, in her new motherhood in the Spirit, Mary embraces each and every one in the Church, and embraces each and every one through the Church. In this sense Mary, Mother of the Church, is also the Church's model. Indeed, as Paul VI hopes and asks the Church must draw 'from the Virgin Mother of God the most authentic form of perfect imitation of Christ.' ''(Pope John Paul II).27
In this extremely meaningful passage from his encyclical, Redemptoris Mater (The Mother of the Redeemer), Pope John Paul II tells us that Mary is the Mother of Christ, that she is the Mother of the Church, that she is Mother of each of us in and through the Church, and that she is the Church's model. All of these truths are most intimately connected.
Being Mother of Christ, Mary is also spiritual mother of His members whom Christ has formed into His body, the Church. She is also model of the Church as all good mothers are models for their children. Mary, the best of mothers, is the perfect exemplar, the perfect model, of what it means to be a follower of Christ. She guides the entire Church in greater assimilation to Christ.
If we claim to love Mary, we must also love what she loves. Being Mother of the Church, Mary obviously loves her Church very deeply. As children of Mary, as followers of Christ, we also must deeply love the Church. Sad to say, there are many in today's Church who do not love her as they should.
In loving the Church which is so dear to Christ and to Mary, let us work to further the good which presently exists in the Church, and labor to correct that which should not be. Indeed, there is much good in today's Church. In many members of the Church, there is a deep hunger for a more profound spirituality. There are lay people living exemplary lives, both the married and the single, as they strive to be a light in the market place. There are religious, priests, and bishops who are working with the Holy Father to make the Church more what she should be, in this, one of her most critical hours.
Sorry to say, however, all is not well in the Church. There are deep divisions. Some of the divisions are caused by false teachings. Such teaching has given rise to apostasy and schism.
Mary, however, has launched a counter attack, laboring for the renewal of the Church in many ways.
It is up to each of us to do our share in building up the Church, this Church which is the mystical body of Christ. Through our Eucharistic participation, through our prayer and penance—through all our activity done in union with Christ and Mary—let us all strive to bring the Church closer to its model, Mary. Let us work so that the Church more and more reflects Christ as it comes closer to the one who so eminently reflects Christ, Mary herself. In her Immaculate Conception, her fullness of grace, her sinlessness, her bodily assumption into Heaven, Mary indeed is the perfectly and fully redeemed one. She is the one who has been perfectly assimilated to Christ. She is the model the Church more and more strives to imitate. The rest of the Church will never mirror forth Christ as brilliantly as does Mary. We can, however, approach more closely to this ideal who is Mary. Vatican II states:
"In the most holy Virgin the Church has already reached that perfection whereby she exists without spot or wrinkle. Yet the followers of Christ still strive to increase in holiness by conquering sin. And so they raise their eyes to Mary who shines forth to the whole community of the elect as a model of the virtues. Devotedly meditating on her and contemplating her in the light of the Word made man, the Church with reverence enters more intimately into the supreme mystery of the Incarnation and becomes ever increasingly like her Spouse."28
Mary loves her Church with a love whose depths we cannot fully fathom, so we should ask her to help us obtain the grace to increase our own love for the Church. Let us ask her, this dearest and most loving mother, to keep us close at her side as she labors for the renewal of the Church. She invites us to assist her.
Notes
The Mother of the Redeemer, op. cit., No. 47.
Vatican II, Constitution on the Church, op. cit., No. 65.
Excerpts from The Spirituality of Fatima by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J. June 13, 1917 "God wishes you to remain in the world for some
time because He wants to use you to establish in the world the devotion
to my Immaculate Heart. I promise salvation to those who embrace it, and
their souls will be loved by God as flowers placed by myself to adorn
His throne." (10) 10. 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).
p.3.
Excerpts from The Spirituality of Fatima by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.
Before Jacinta died, she told of other messages given her (during her illness) by Mary:
Tell everybody that God gives graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Tell them to ask grace from her, and that the Heart of Jesus wishes to be venerated together with the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Ask them to plead for peace from the Immaculate Heart of Mary, for the Lord has confided the peace of the world to her. (19)
19. Our Lady's Peace Plan, op cit., pp.9-10.
Excerpt from Mother at Our Side, by Father Edward Carter, S. J.
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