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June 16, 2008

June 17th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 8 Period II.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries  
for June 17th are Joyful.

        

Rita is doing the

Sidney Rosary Tonight

June 17th - 6:20pm

Please tune in and pray with

all your hearts for all our needs!!

 

 

We need  funds for the

Virgin Mary Building and for

the Priestly Newsletter

mailing in July.

Please help us.

  

  

June 16, 2008

                Man was created in the image
                    and likeness of God —

                Love wants to know and to
                    be known

                To make ourselves known to
                    another we must seek to
                    really know oneself.

                Because of original sin, bad
                    habits, tendencies toward
                    anger and hate have been
                    taught through those who
                    taught us.

                Selfishness is a real problem, taught
                    by selfish others, but also
                    from our wounded human
                    nature —

                Every human creature from the
                    moment of conception, except Mary,
                    was marked with original sin —

                God shows us about genealogy in
                    the scriptures —

                People who are royalty were to
                    come from royal lines —

                When Cain sinned — we see that
                    God wiped out the human
                    race except for the descendants
                    of Noah. God flooded the earth.
                    God gave us a covenant in the rainbow.

                It was not loving to continue the
                    contaminated ways some were
                    acting —

                We see God in the Bible
                    renewing His people —

                Jesus came, the Son of God, and He died
                    for our sins, and he rose that we could
                    share in His life —

                Jesus gave us the Church
                God gave us His precious priest

                Jesus is the head
                The Church is the mystical body of
                    Christ and is to operate in
                    the world to help lead
                    souls to heaven

                God is so generous to us
                God knows us
                God wants to dwell in us —
                God gives us the sacrament of baptism
                God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwell in the
                    graced baptized soul —

                We would be in awe if we could
                    see the beauty of our own graced soul

                In the scripture God reveals to us
                    knowledge of Himself —

                    the more we sing the Word
                    the more we read the Word
                    the more the Word lives in us

                the greater our happiness —

                We were created for God —
                    Only this will give us real happiness

                    When the Spirit is alive in us we
                        experience joy — real happiness —

                        We are like the shoe box with
                            the perfect pair of shoes —
                            not filled with junk
                            (
Blue Book II, February 3, 1993 5:40am
                              
 I am the Perfect Pair of Shoes)

                When we are baptized our knowing
                    and loving capacity is elevated.

                It is because of baptism we can
                    understand more deeply the
                    mystery of God's love —
                    the mystery of the Trinity —
                    The mystery of 3 Persons in one God

 

Etymologically, the word mystery basically means that which is secret or hidden. It was used in a religiously technical sense even before Christianity. Mystery was used, for example, to designate certain religious rites of pagan Hellenism, secret rites that were closed to outsiders unless they had been properly initiated into them. In relation to Egyptian hermeticism, the word mystery was applied to initiation into secret religious ideas or doctrines. In reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate mystery. Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden from man in his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us briefly look at this inner life of God. (Response to God's Love)
 

                We are so loved by God.
                We are to adore, admire and love God.

                God wants a very personal relationship
                    with us.

                In the First Blue Book this attracted
                    people to the letters of Jesus —
                    His love for this Personal relationship
                    with Him —
                    not a God far off —
                    but One who wants to live in us —
                    One who gives us His Body and Blood
                        to eat and drink
                    One who gives us His Word — a
                    two-edged sword penetrating heart
                    and soul — filling us — feeding us
                    with deeper knowledge of Him

                How do we receive the Eucharist —
                    He comes to us Body, Blood, Soul
                    and Divinity

                How do we let the Word — live more
                    deeply in us — IN US —
                    the Word alive in us

   

Prayer for the Word Alive in Our Hearts

We know, dear Holy Spirit, the Word in His human nature was brought forth within the womb of the woman. We pray that His word will be brought forth in our hearts as He lives and dwells in us. We want the incarnation to go on in our lives. Dear Holy Spirit, work in us.

   

                Let go of hatred, anger, pride —

                We need to be empty to be filled
                    by God —

                From our birth we can accumulate
                    unforgiveness —

                We have memories, feelings from
                    childhood — we
                    may blame others for our wounds
                    today —
                    others who didn't have anything
                        to do with our pride —
                        nothing to do with our anger —

                        and yet we can become victims
                            of somebody's ill will —
                            some hatred within them

                God is in our graced baptized soul
                    in a very special way —

                The more we are saturated with His
                    grace the more we feel at
                    home in the family of God —

                The Trinity makes its home
                    in us —

                Look at the beauty — the order
                    how God created us human
                    creatures

                The beauty of man's eyes
                    the gift of hearing
                    the gift of tasting
                    the gift of our physical heart,
                        fingers and toes

                We can know God in His creation —
                    human creatures —
                    animals
                    trees
                    flowers

                God is the ultimate Perfection
                God is all good

                God created everything from
                    nothingness

                When we see Jesus healing the
                    blind — we may see how
                    truly blind we are and

                    how pompous in our ways
                    to think we know so
                    much — when we have so
                    much to learn

                Man can be so narrow, so
                    pompous, proud and know
                    so little

                Man knows God more deeply in
                    recognizing the truth —

                    he doesn't know it all and
                    proceeding in humility

                God is the ultimate mystery —
                    we must accept this
                God's ways are not our ways —

                God is first —

                God is omnipotent

                God is the "I Am"

                We need money for the loan on the
                Virgin Mary building —

 

Mary by day
July 5, 2000

by night
July 5, 2000

 

                these were taken when Fr. Carter S.J.
                    last went to the building —
                he died at the end of the second millennium

                 Fr. Carter S.J. doctorate in theology

 

 
                    got a message to begin the
                    Priestly Newsletter May 31, 1994
                    Feast of the Visitation

                The First Priestly Newsletter was
                    sent out to all United States priests
                    July, 1994.

                July 5, 1994 Mary began appearing
                    to me every day at an old
                    seminary — now
                    renovated to Our Lady of the Holy Spirit
                    Center

                My mission since Fr. Carter got the first
                    message about beginning the
                    Priestly Newsletter May 31, 1994
                    was what was finally published
                    in the Mary Newsletter published
                    by Fr. John summer 2007. 

    Click to Newsletter

                Fr. Carter wrote of his vision
                    of this in the Priestly Newsletter —
                    his 20 page synopsis of the spiritual life —
                    his masterpiece — that I was to send out in
                    a little book of his last
                    Priestly Newsletters on the 10th
                    anniversary of us being in the
                    building July 5, 2008

 

   

                2 1/2 years after Fr. Carter got the
                message of Priestly Newsletters
                and 2 1/2 years of circulation
                December 17, 1996
                Mary appeared on the building in
                    Clearwater, Florida —

 

 

                On March 22, 1994 after repeated
                    efforts at the old seminary to spread
                    the message of the Blue Books and
                    the Eucharist where
                    Mary finally appeared
                    for 14 months daily

                    the corner of the old seminary
                    fell off on Lucia's birthday
                    the main Fatima visionary —

 

 

 

                Now look at these events

                December 17, 1991 Vision of Sacred Heart on fire

                December 17, 1996 Mary appeared on the
                                                building in Clearwater

                December 17, 1993 My first message was
                                                published and circulated                                                

                February 17, 1994 first Blue Book meeting
                                                my house

                                            message of February 17, 1994
                                            about ancestors and flood

                                            second month - 17 day
                                            Noah's flood 

Genesis 7: 11-12

    In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, and on the seventeenth day of the month, that very day all the springs of the great deep burst through, and the sluices of heaven opened. And heavy rain fell on earth for forty days and forty nights.

   

                17th meetings continued until 13ths -

                October 13, 1996 —First 13th — Tom's Farm
                                3 - 13's before Mary appeared
                                Clearwater

                The Lady of the Holy Spirit Center — the
                        old seminary threw us out
                        3 times September 11, 1995 first
                        Last May 13, 1997

                We were blocked at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center
                    Falmouth Farm

                    March 3, 1997
                    City of Falmouth Flooded

                Mary's image and Jesus' image
                    appeared at Clearwater —

                    Never in the history of the world
                    such an image

                Mary would light when I did
                    the rosaries of the 5ths

   

 

 

                This image was like this 7 1/2 years

 

                Jesus' face

 

February 5, 2001

                    is still there

                Tremendous healing is given to some
                    for going to the building
                    praying to Our Lady of Clearwater

                Jesus' well was found next to the
                    image — healing has happened
                    from this water — 

 

shipped from the printers
December 17, 1996

Mary appeared
December 17, 1996

 

                Mary's image head was destroyed

 

March 1, 2004

 

                After this hurricanes ravaged
                    the state of Florida
                    first August 13, 2004
                    next September 5, 2004

                First someone threw acid on
                    Mary's face

                Then Mary's image face was
                    destroyed March 1, 2004

                Then to pay for the Priestly Newsletter
                    we began selling the Fatima
                    statues (hand-painted and handmade)
                    with the precious gift of the
                    image head

                Jesus told me to tell all people to
                    pray the prayers from the
                    Prayer Manual

 

 

                    when using the statue

  

             

 

                Many reported healing —

                1) people returning to the Church

                2) spiritual healing

                3) physical healing

                To those who pray the prayers in the
                    prayer manual — they become
                    more deeply united to Jesus and
                    Mary

                Here is a message Fr. Carter got from Jesus
                    the same month he began to
                    circulate the first Newsletter

                On the Feast of St. Ignatius

     

July 31, 1994

Words of Jesus to Members of
Shepherds of Christ Associates:

"My beloved priest-companion, I intend to use the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the movement, Shepherds of Christ Associates, in a powerful way for the renewal of My Church and the world.

"I will use the newsletter and the chapters of Shepherds of Christ Associates as a powerful instrument for spreading devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart.

"I am calling many to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. To all of them I will give great blessings. I will use them as instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy Spirit."

- Message from Jesus to Father Edward J. Carter, S.J., Founder, as given on July 31, 1994,
feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)

  

                On October 13, 1994

                    Fr. Carter got this message

 

October 13, 1994

The Birth of the Full Ministries
of the Shepherds of Christ

    "I wish to share with you part of a message which Jesus gave us on October 13, 1994. The message tells us about the expansion of the Shepherds of Christ movement:

    'My beloved priest-companion, today I come to you with another mission. I am asking you to establish Shepherds of Christ Ministries. At My request you have already begun the priestly newsletter, "Shepherds of Christ", and the prayer chapters, Shepherds of Christ Associates...

    'I am giving you this message on this day, the 77th Anniversary of the Great Apparition at Fatima, because of the close connection between the Shepherds of Christ movement and the Fatima message. The Fatima message is centered in devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart, especially in consecration to Our Hearts. Shepherds of Christ Ministries is also centered in devotion to Our Hearts. I will use Shepherds of Christ Ministries as a great instrument in helping to bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. When this occurs, My Church and the world will be experiencing the great era of peace promised by My Mother at Fatima.

    'Today, then, October 13, 1994, the 77th Anniversary of the Great Apparition at Fatima, marks the birth of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I pour forth the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock.'

    "Jesus has told us that Shepherds of Christ Ministries includes: the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, Shepherds of Christ Associates prayer chapters, various publications, including books, whatever else Our Lord directs us to undertake.

    "As members of Shepherds of Christ Associates, you are an extremely important part of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. You have given great joy to the Heart of Jesus by responding to His invitation to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. As He draws you closer to His Heart and to His Mother's Heart as Associates members, He will fill you with an ever-increasing experience of His love, peace, and joy."

- From In the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, Newsletter of Shepherds of Christ Associates
by Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J., Volume 1, No. 1, 1995. p. 2.

   

                    and the summer of 94
                    Fr. Carter got this message

  

  from Tell My People

Age of The Two Hearts

Jesus speaks:  "My beloved priest-companion, I have allowed you to experience in extraordinary fashion the riches contained in My Heart and My Mother's Heart. I desire that you tell all My people about these riches. I desire that My people consecrate themselves to My Sacred Heart and to Mary's Immaculate Heart. My people are living in the beginnings of the age of the Two Hearts.

    "After the time of the purification is completed, this new era of the Church and the world will become firmly established. This era will be characterized by the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. All those who consecrate themselves to My Heart and to My Mother's Heart will help to establish this glorious new age. I am Lord and Master. Please listen to My urgent request. Within Our Hearts you will experience the love and security, the peace and the joy, which you all desire. I love My people with a tremendous love, and in My love I give them this message!"

end of excerpt from Tell My People

 

  

                As co-founder of the Shepherds of Christ Movement
                    I, Rita Ring, basically got all the other
                    messages except the
                    Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart
                    that set up the structure of
                    the Shepherds of Christ Movement and
                    these last 8 years the messages
                    to run it since Fr. Carter's
                    death

                Jesus sent me to Fr. John —
                    I did not know him —
                    immediately — 2 million
                    Newsletters went out and
                    the response from the
                    hierarchy regarding our
                    prayers, the Ministry and
                    mostly the Priestly Newsletter
               

                On September 6, 2001 we were struggling
                    with funds and

                    5 days later the September 11, 2001
                    mishap occurred

 

Excerpt from September 6, 2001 

Jesus speaks:        You must pray for your donors.

                        I appeared and my mother appeared

                            for the whole world.

                        The apparition is not appreciated.

                        The fact you cannot even make

                            the rent payment for the

                            building is proof.

                        So much money in the world and the

                            state of Florida.

                        Look at your news on television.

                        Look at what the news is on the
                            television.

                        MARY HAS APPEARED ON THE
                            BUILDING FOR 5 YEARS AND
                            YOU DO NOT EVEN TAKE 
                            NOTICE.

                        It is not the responsibility of 100
                            people to support such a vision.

                         It is a gift from God.

                         This shows you the focus of men
                            and your news.

                         Your eyes are blind.

                         I ask today September 6, 2001 to

                             see Our images and to help

                             do what We have asked you to do.

                         These messages are important.

                         You have ignored Me.

                         THE PRAYER CARDS, Prayer for Union
                            with Jesus, Prayer Before the Holy
                            Sacrifice of the Mass, Say daily card,
                            morning offering, Shepherds of Christ
                            Prayer manuals, Holy Spirit Novena book,
                            rosary meditations are gifts from God.

Messenger:        Jesus also said "All materials

                             used for the school rosary program

                             printed by B&M have helped the

                             school children."

Jesus speaks:      The Priestly Newsletter is a gift from God.

                         Because of these prayers your world

                             is a better place.

                         If B&M closes and the printing stops -

                             your world will be affected.

                        Again I repeat, these revelations and

                            materials are for the world.

                        Mary appears the Lady clothed in gold

                            for the world.

                        Very, very few are helping to do what I ask.

                        My movement is to help the priests, the
                            Church and the world, it is a gift.

                        Because of My movement, the world is a
                            better place.

                        You will feel the effects if the printing stops.

                        I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus, I speak here.

end of excerpt from September 6, 2001

 

                I implore those being called by Jesus
                    to recognize the vocation
                    of helping us keep the building and
                    circulating the books and the
                    Priestly Newsletter

                It is this network of prayer for the
                    priests, the Church and the world —
                    the funds from the members
                    that have led to this

   

Fr. Carter, the Founder

Fr. Edward Carter, S.J., (Doctorate in Theology), began the Shepherds of Christ Priestly Newsletter in 1994. We have since circulated 6,000,000 Priestly Newsletters to the hierarchy and the priests in English and Spanish in 14 years since Fr. Carter began it. In a tainted world the Priestly Newsletter is sent to priests to help strengthen and encourage them and show them our love and appreciation for all they do. It is written in the vision of the Father, the voice of the Good Shepherd, it is made up of the Scriptures, writings of the popes, encyclicals, the writings of the hierarchy, the Catechism, the wisdom of the saints and prominent theologians.

Fr. Carter, S.J. sent the Priestly Newsletter every other month to 75,000 priests until the time of his death.

 

                A few words about the retreats —

                I have prayed 8 days a month —
                    4 in China
                    4 in Florida

                    most months

                These days of retreat

                    4 in China before the exposed
                        Eucharist consist in
                        this

                    1) singing the scriptures in
                        the Glory and Praise songs

                    2) reading the scriptures from
                        Sunday Masses

                    3) Singing the Psalms

                    4) Praying the rosary and reading
                        the powerful homilies
                        of Fr. Joe
                        and Fr. John

                Tremendous grace is released for
                    us, the Movement — the
                    priests, the Church and the
                    world

                As we sing as one body — so deeply
                    united

                    as Mass is celebrated —

                    God has given us gifts in these
                    3 priests and their homilies
                    and writings

                    Fr. John
                    Fr. Carter
                    Fr. Joe

                Jesus wants people all over the
                    world praying the
                    1) Holy Spirit Novena (4 languages
                                with Church Imprimatur)
   

 

                    2) Prayers in the Prayer Manual (6 languages)

                1) We must have faith
                2) Pray for our donors
                3) Obey the messages given

                The retreats help make reparation to
                    the Hearts of Jesus and Mary as
                    Mary asked for at Fatima

                The retreats are to give honor and love
                    to God whom we love so
                    very much

                The retreats are to pray for our needs


                                 

           

                  

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