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BIG ANNIVERSARY

JULY 5, 2003

Come on the 5th

Please join us July 5, 2003 
in Clearwater, Florida
for the prayers and live rosary
at 6:20 pm.

It will be broadcast live on
the internet.

      

Mary by day July 5, 2000

by night July 5, 2000

Jesus walks on the water and, with him, Peter

And at once he made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side while he sent the crowds away. After sending the crowds away he went up into the hills by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone, while the boat, by now some furlongs from land, was hard pressed by rough waves, for there was a head–wind. In the fourth watch of the night he came towards them, walking on the sea, and when the disciples saw him walking on the sea they were terrified. ‘It is a ghost,’ they said, and cried out in fear. But at once Jesus called out to them, saying, ‘Courage! It’s me! Don’t be afraid.’ It was Peter who answered. ‘Lord,’ he said, ‘if it is you, tell me to come to you across the water.’ Jesus said, ‘Come.’ Then Peter got out of the boat and started walking towards Jesus across the water, but then noticing the wind, he took fright and began to sink. ‘Lord,’ he cried, ‘save me!’ Jesus put out his hand at once and held him. ‘You have so little faith,’ he said, ‘why did you doubt?’ And as they got into the boat the wind dropped. The men in the boat bowed down before him and said, ‘Truly, you are the Son of God.’

June 21, 2003 message continues

Messenger:     How many times God gives us great signs,
                            but we doubt and then we do not
                            do as He desires.

                        Mary has appeared on the building — 
                            I have seen people's faces drop at
                            this great gift we are given

    

Mary by day July 5, 2000

by night July 5, 2000

   

June 21, 2003 message continues

Messenger:         and then they are the first to ignore
                            it later on.

                        I pray for grace for people to see. I
                            pray the Church recognizes Mary's
                            image and the writings Jesus gave
                            to me and Fr. Carter.

                        Mary is Mary. These messages are
                            Mary's messages, they don't belong
                            to Rome or Florida, Clearwater.
                            The same messages I received
                            for the Red Rosary book when
                            Mary appeared to me every day
                            for 14 months (July 5, 1994 to September 5, 1995 
                            and on the 5ths before she appeared in 
                            Clearwater) in Cincinnati were
                            the messages Mary wanted to be
                            used with her image site in Clearwater,
                            Florida. Mary is Mary. Jesus is
                            Jesus. He gives the messages of God's
                            Blue Book II for Rome and all the
                            priests of the world.

                            Jesus gave me these messages in
                        1993 and 1994 in God's Blue Book I, II and
                        III and many were never published — God's
                        Blue Book IV - X.

                            Live Rosaries — like the Red Rosary book have
                        a different feel than written messages
                        sometimes. Fr. Carter recognized the importance
                        of the live rosaries, he took them most
                        seriously and spent so much time discerning
                        all my works published, all Daily Messages,
                        to his death, the end of the second millennium.
                        He gave his life, dedicated to the mission
                        Jesus gave him in the Shepherds of Christ.

                        The Shepherds of Christ Movement is here
                        today with all these works because Fr. Carter
                        believed and he worked so hard to preserve
                        our writings, his and mine, Rita Ring, he knew
                        they were important in helping to bring to
                        completion the mission Mary began at
                        Fatima and the Reign of the Sacred Heart
                        and triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart and
                        the renewal of the Church and the world.

                        Think of Christ walking on the water and the
                            lesson Christ is teaching us when Peter
                            begins to doubt and sink?

                        What about St. Thomas, putting his hands
                            in Christ side.

                        What about the corner falling off the old
                            seminary after Jesus had warned.

   

ALMOST 9 YEARS AGO

    

Excerpt from March 7, 1994

Jesus speaks: "Busy yourself for your day is at hand and you will know My might! I will shake the earth and you will listen Then you will listen, but where were you when I gave you forewarning? You are waiting for the big boom. I am calling you now to listen to Me here....Time is so short. One moment and it is up in smoke....What do I do to shake you? I, in My might can rock you off your rockers. I try to prepare you but you are too busy. Hold on to your last piece of dust and watch it go up in your face! I am Jesus Christ, Son of God and I write to you and who pays heed here? This should tell you of your attachments to worldly things. You want proof. You look the other way. I am God and you contain the mighty medicine for this sick world. I am Jesus, the Son of God. Do you listen?"

end of excerpt from March 7, 1994

  

Excerpt from March 13, 1994 

Jesus speaks: "You must tell them how I wait for them. I wait. I want them to come and I will give them such love! Tell them, Rita, tell them! Your discontent is from what emotions I give you and you keep them inside. I want all to know Me and My love. I am crying out to you, little one. Tell them, tell them. Do not waste any time. I am crying out for you to spread this message. I want you to tell all of My love and how I am waiting. Emotion, Emotion! I am crying out to you in your heart. I long for their love. I died for them. How do I make them know if you, to whom I speak, hold back? I want you to get the messages out child.
   Ready yourself for a big boom. No one is listening. I am crying out to you. Prepare your brothers, they are in darkness....I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I am on fire for love of them. I am Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God. I call you to this state of urgency. Move your friends by this urgent letter. There is no more time to waste. I call you all here to deliver this message personally to you. I am Jesus. I am begging each of you to spread My message. Tell them of My ardent love. In each moment you waste, souls will be lost."

        end of excerpts from March 1994

    

  

  

     

  

March 3, 1997

Falmouth Flood warning from the Father Feb 10, 1997

   

February 10, 1997 - Message from God the Father, 

...Nowhere in the human history of man have I revealed and given such gifts as I have given to you in your movement (Shepherds of Christ). The plot is the same as the plot at the Holy Spirit Center and the Falmouth Farm. I am displeased, I am angered to address this issue any further.

I am the Father. I have spoken. …Satan has created this confusion because of the importance of the 13th (prayer meetings) and the completion of the Fatima Message. Nowhere, have I been so greatly offended, when I have given such gifts which ended in the Falmouth Farm being a (spiritual) disaster ...many souls are being lost.

   

  

June 21, 2003 message continues

Messenger:         After Mary appeared 22 times to another
                            visionary they blocked God's Blue Book and 
                            Shepherds of Christ on the Falmouth Farm
                            and the Rosary meditation and consecration cards
                            for the youth because they did not understand.

    

                       

June 21, 2003 message continues

Messenger:     How could you deny this?

  

     

   

Transcribed from a live tape given by Mary and Jesus
during the Nursing Home video on January 5, 2003

  

January 5, 2003
Feast of the Epiphany
   

(Taken from the video at that moment 1-5-2003)

   

(Taken from the video at that moment 1-5-2003)

    

Song: Song from Jesus  

  

(Taken from the video at that moment 1-5-2003
during the Song from Jesus)

   

(Taken from the video at that moment 1-5-2003)

     

Song: Ave Maria  

Mary speaks:  My beloved nursing home ones,  
And I call you children for you are my children and I am your Mother Mary. Oh my beloved people of the earth, oh my beloved elderly, I ask you to offer your days every day — 

 

(Taken from the video at that moment 1-5-2003)

 

Mary speaks:   whatever it is that you do that day in trying to do God’s will offer it as a sacrifice and an offering to God in union with the Mass to help to bring down grace for the souls of this earth. 

 

(Taken from the video at that moment 1-5-2003)

 

Mary speaks:  Your life is so important. There are so many today that are sinning and in need of healing grace. 

  

(Taken from the video at that moment 1-5-2003)

  

Mary speaks:   In your suffering at the nursing home think of the souls of the earth that are crying out because of their pain and how they need to know of God’s love. Offering up your days in the nursing home and the elderly can make such a difference to the souls of this earth when you offer your days as a sacrifice united to the Mass that grace will be released for the souls that are hurting. I am the Mother of love and I want the children of this earth to know the love of my Son Jesus. I appear here 

 

(Taken from the video at that moment 1-5-2003)

 

(Taken from the video at that moment 1-5-2003)

  

Mary speaks:    on this building in Clearwater and you are given this recording as a special gift to circulate it and to show it to your friends and others so that all the earth will know that I am Mary your Mother and I appear here to reach my hurting children of this earth in need of grace. 

 

(Taken from the video at that moment 1-5-2003)

 

Mary speaks:   I ask you my elderly to especially offer up your lives for the souls that are hurting in this world. Your life is so important for the souls of this earth. My Son Jesus gave His life on the cross for the precious souls and He has asked me today to ask you to offer up the little things that you do everyday in trying to do God’s will in union with the Mass that grace will be released for the souls of this earth. I am Mary your Mother. My children are hurting and many are dropping into hell like rain. My children will you help me? 

  

(Taken from the video at that moment 1-5-2003)

  

Mary speaks:   Will you hear the plea of my Son Jesus? For He wants them to know that He loves them so dearly and He wants them to love Him in return.

  

(Taken from the video at that moment 1-5-2003)

  

Mary speaks:   The prayer has been given to you. It is on a card and it is a very small prayer. Say it every day and throughout the day to remind yourself how important your life is when you offer it up in trying to do God’s will for the souls of this earth. I am Mary your Mother. Will you hear my cry to you today? 

  

(Taken from the video at that moment 1-5-2003)

 

Mary speaks:   Will you circulate these videos that my children of the earth will know that I am Mary and I appear here? These videos are not only for the nursing homes. They are for all the souls of the earth that they will be able to see me.  

   

(Taken from the video at that moment 1-5-2003)

    

(Taken from the video at that moment 1-5-2003)

    

Mary speaks:  I am Mary your Mother. This is a gift that God the Father has given to this earth. I have appeared on this building every day for over 6 years. I ask you to help circulate the pictures of this image that people will know that I am speaking to them, that my Son Jesus is calling out to the world to obey the commandments.

  

(Taken from the video at that moment 1-5-2003)

    

Mary speaks:   My children God loves you. This is the love your heart craves. Your time is so short on this earth. Please hear the words that I speak to you today and see Our images as We appear here before you.  

         

(Taken from the video at that moment 1-5-2003)
  

Song: Song from Jesus  

Jesus speaks:  This is My message to you My beloved Nursing Home ones that I love you. This is the song that I give to you today that you know that I am with you at every moment, that you are not afraid. I am Jesus the Son of God.  

Song: Song from Jesus

end of the January 5, 2003 video

   
  

June 21, 2003 message continues

Messenger:     All the messages I got from Mary about reaching
                            the school children when she appeared nine
                            years ago — think of how the children would
                            be if Mary's messages were heeded and the rosary
                            meditations and consecration prayers used.

                        Now Mary appears on the building and they still
                            ignore her.

    

   

June 21, 2003 message continues

Messenger:     It is so sad what is happening to our youth and
                            these messages whether given in Cincinnati,
                            Fatima, Clearwater are a remedy for
                            the sick children. Now if Mary
                            appears in another corner of the United States
                            on a hospital, why would you cover
                            her with a tarp? Children are sick
                            spiritually. Every time I say this,
                            I hear Mary respond —

Mary speaks:     "I appear and give messages for my
                                sick children."

Messenger:     She could appear in all the corners
                            of the United States.

                        Listen to this message January 2, 1999 

    

January 2, 1999

Mary speaks:  I am Our Lady of Snows. I come to cover the earth with a soft white blanket of my love.

I come to bring peace to the earth. I tell you to let go of the anxiety in your heart and experience my peace and His love.

I am your heavenly Mother. I come to hold you and caress you and take you to my Immaculate Heart.

(English)
 

(Spanish)

Mary's Message

from the Rosary of August 27, 1996

Mary speaks:  I stood beneath the cross of my Son, and my Heart was in such pain for I saw Him before my eyes. I saw Him covered with blood. I saw Him die. My Heart, my children, my Heart to watch my Son, but my Heart, my Heart, how I suffered for my little children of the world that give in to this world and give up the love of my Son. O my little children of light, I give you this message. Carry this light into the darkness for your Mother Mary, for I stood beneath the cross and I cried. I cried for the little ones. I cried for the young ones, the ones that do not care and will lose their souls. How do I make you see for you will not listen to me? What can I do? I come. I appear. I beg. I plead. I give you these gifts from my Son, and you reject me. I do not deliver messages very often anymore for I have been ignored. The message is the same. You do not read the messages I have given to you. Please help me. Help the little children. I appear. I appear. I appear, and I am ignored. I stood beneath the cross, and I cried. I cried, and my Heart was in such anguish for my little children, for I am searching for them this day as I searched for the Child Jesus. Please, please help me. I cannot hold back the hand of my Son any longer. I am Mary, your Mother. I ask you to help my children. You are my children of light.

end of Mary's Message, August 27, 1996  

June 21, 2003 message continues

Messenger:     I am in Cincinnati getting messages from
                            Mary and Jesus for the image site
                            in Clearwater, but it doesn't
                            matter where I am these are the
                            messages Mary gives for her sick
                            children.

                        These messages and images have been broadcast
                            around the world by the internet radio,
                            the live camera on Mary and the daily
                            messages on the internet since July 8, 1998.

                        Jesus has given a way of life for us to follow
                            through the guidance of Fr. Carter in
                            the prayers and writings He gave at
                            the end of the second millennium and
                            2½ years after Fr. Carter was told to write
                            his 33 Newsletters given during his life
                            Mary appeared on the building in
                            Clearwater.

                        Fr. Carter consecrated the building and the
                            world to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate
                            Heart in as far as he was able on
                            July 5, 1998 when we began leasing
                            the building after we had circulated
                            Shepherds of Christ Material there since
                            she appeared December 17, 1996.

                        Now July 5, 2003 is 5 years since this
                            was done by Fr. Carter.

                        Here are pictures I was given July 5, 2001 after
                            I asked Jesus for a special sign on
                            my monthly visit as we prayed
                            the 6:20 prayers and I received messages
                            in Clearwater, Florida.

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July 5, 1998

Jesus said if any reporters came to tell them that on July 5, 1998 we had consecrated the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

June 21, 2003 message continues

Messenger:     this began Mary's daily messages to me
                            for 14 months. Fr. Carter was
                            present daily for about 4 months
                            with my children, after a while
                            others joined at 6:30.

                       (1) Do we do things for the honor and service of God —
                                living according to His will and loving Him?

                        (2) Do we do things for our benefit, but hope
                                that we will be saved in the process?

                        (3) Do we just want our riches for our own
                                glory here below and care little
                                about God's plan?

                        What is the motive for which we act?

                        How much of ourselves do we really give to God?

                        How much do we hold back and control wanting
                            the earthly pleasures here below over
                            our service of God?

                        Do we do what we want and
                            ignore trying to act as God wills
                            us to do?

2 Corinthians 12: 1-10

I am boasting because I have to. Not that it does any good, but I will move on to visions and revelations from the Lord. I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—still in the body? I do not know; or out of the body? I do not know: God knows—was caught up right into the third heaven. And I know that this man—still in the body? or outside the body? I do not know, God knows— was caught up into Paradise and heard words said that cannot and may not be spoken by any human being. On behalf of someone like that I am willing to boast, but I am not going to boast on my own behalf except of my weaknesses; and then, if I do choose to boast I shall not be talking like a fool because I shall be speaking the truth. But I will not go on in case anybody should rate me higher than he sees and hears me to be, because of the exceptional greatness of the revelations. 

    Wherefore, so that I should not get above myself, I was given a thorn in the flesh, a messenger from Satan to batter me and prevent me from getting above myself. About this, I have three times pleaded with the Lord that it might leave me; but he has answered me, ‘My grace is enough for you: for power is at full stretch in weakness.’ It is, then, about my weaknesses that I am happiest of all to boast, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me; and that is why I am glad of weaknesses, insults, constraints, persecutions and distress for Christ’s sake. For it is when I am weak that I am strong.

June 21, 2003 message continues

Messenger:     My Mother bore me to bring you these revelations and
                            messages that Mary and Jesus give today.
                            Oh God help me to do Thy holy will.

Matthew 6: 24-34  

God and money

‘No one can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the second, or be attached to the first and despise the second. You cannot be the slave both of God and of money.

Trust in Providence

‘That is why I am telling you not to worry about your life and what you are to eat, nor about your body and what you are to wear. Surely life is more than food, and the body more than clothing! Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sow or reap or gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they are? Can any of you, however much you worry, add one single cubit to your span of life? And why worry about clothing? Think of the flowers growing in the fields; they never have to work or spin; yet I assure you that not even Solomon in all his royal robes was clothed like one of these. Now if that is how God clothes the wild flowers growing in the field which are there today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, will he not much more look after you, you who have so little faith? So do not worry; do not say, "What are we to eat? What are we to drink? What are we to wear?" It is the gentiles who set their hearts on all these things. Your heavenly Father knows you need them all. Set your hearts on his kingdom first, and on God’s saving justice, and all these other things will be given you as well. So do not worry about tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.’

Excerpt from Newsletter 2000 Issue 3

Humility

Humility is a very important virtue given to us for the spiritual journey.

Humility is both the realization of what we are as creatures of God and the concrete implementation of this realization in our Christian lives. Humility, therefore, is not an exercise in self-depreciation; it is not telling yourself that you are no good, that you really have nothing of any significance to contribute to the service of God. Humility is based on truth. It is compatible with the recognition that God has given a person certain gifts, even great gifts, of nature and grace. If we do not recognize our God-given gifts, we do not thank God for them as we should, nor properly develop these gifts according to His will. God wants us not only to recognize the good that is in us, but also to realize the source of this goodness. Although we have a responsibility to cooperate with His graces, God is the One Who is chiefly responsible for what we are. If one person has advanced to a level in the Christian life that is beyond the level of another, it is ultimately because God has given that person greater graces.

If humility is based on truth and, consequently, allows us to properly recognize our gifts, it also necessitates that we admit to the evil within us, which is also part of the truth and must be acted upon. Humility not only bids us to admit that there is evil in us, but also tells us that, as creatures of God, we should conform to His will and work against this evil side of our persons. In summary, humility allows us to properly evaluate both the good and evil within ourselves.

Here is a quotation from St. Paul which helps us to preserve, and grow in, humility: Who made you so important? What have you got that was not given to you? And if it was given to you, why are you boasting as though it were your own? (1 Cor 4:7).

And in the Letter of James we read: Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will lift you up. (Jm 4:10)

end of excerpt from Newsletter 2000 Issue 3

June 21, 2003 message continues

Messenger:     We must want all things according to God's will.
                        Dear God help us to be humble.
                        Think of the humility of Mary.

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.

    

    

Apostles are sent to preach 

Matthew 10: 1-16

  He summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits with power to drive them out and to cure all kinds of disease and all kinds of illness. 

    These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon who is known as Peter, and his brother Andrew; James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, who was also his betrayer. These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them as follows:

    ‘Do not make your way to gentile territory, and do not enter any Samaritan town; go instead to the lost sheep of the House of Israel. And as you go, proclaim that the kingdom of Heaven is close at hand. Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those suffering from virulent skin–diseases, drive out devils. You received without charge, give without charge. Provide yourselves with no gold or silver, not even with coppers for your purses, with no haversack for the journey or spare tunic or footwear or a staff, for the labourer deserves his keep. 

    ‘Whatever town or village you go into, seek out someone worthy and stay with him until you leave. As you enter his house, salute it, and if the house deserves it, may your peace come upon it; if it does not, may your peace come back to you. And if anyone does not welcome you or listen to what you have to say, as you walk out of the house or town shake the dust from your feet. In truth I tell you, on the Day of Judgement it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town. Look, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be cunning as snakes and yet innocent as doves.

Excerpt from the beginning of the October 13, 1996 Rosary

3 months before Mary appeared on the building

Jesus speaks:
    I am calling you, My special apostles, to this farm on this day of October 13th, 1996. I will fill your hearts with the fire of My love, and the fire of this love will spread across the earth and many hearts will know My love and be touched through you. Open wide your heart during this rosary that I may speak to you and tell you of My burning love for you. I am giving to you an abundant sharing in My life. Open your heart. I am knocking at the door of your heart. You must not close your heart. Open wide that I can come in and fill you with My divine love.

end of excerpt from October 13, 1996 Rosary

LEVELS OF COMMITMENT

There are seven levels of commitment in the Shepherds of Christ Movement.

1. There are Associates who gather and pray at least once monthly as a group and also help with donations to support the Shepherds of Christ priestly newsletter. They can be tremendously involved. They give as they feel they are able.

2. Apostles are members who have restricted their apostolic activity to the Shepherds of Christ. They literally act as a body of lay people who have given their lives in their present living situation to do all that they can to bring about the Reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart.

3. Prayer Apostles are often shut-ins, some are able to go to church and pray. They spend much of their lives praying for the Movement.

4. Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus are those who spend at least two separate hours weekly before the Blessed Sacrament praying for the following:

1. For the spread of the devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary culminating in the reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of the Immaculate Heart.

2. For the Pope.

3. For all bishops of the world.

4. For all priests.

5. For all sisters and brothers in the religious life.

6. For all members of the Shepherds of Christ Movement, and for the spread of this Movement to the world.

7. For all members of the Catholic Church.

8. For all members of the human family.

9. For all souls in purgatory.

5. Handmaids of the Good Shepherd are young and older women who have given their lives in community primarily to pray for the Shepherds of Christ Movement and intentions and to be special spouses of Jesus. Some have more duties than others. All have the primary duty of prayer and the desire to be a special spouse of our Lord. One of the functions of the handmaids is the involvement in praying for and helping to circulate the priestly newsletter. The handmaids are not members of a religious order.
     
     
     

6. Servants of the Good Shepherd are men who live in community with a lifestyle and purpose similar to that of the handmaids. The servants are not members of a religious order.
     
    
     
   
      

7. We wish to form a special congregation of priests who will realize their great oneness with Christ. They will be consecrated deeply to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary and support the Shepherds of Christ Movement as holy priests.

Excerpt from October 21, 1994

Excerpt from Blue Book 5

(between 12 and 3 p.m. I heard bells in the Priests' Residence Chapel)

Jesus speaks:  Tell them, My child. I have commissioned you and Father to tell them of this great love I have. I am your most precious Savior. Truly, I died for you. Truly, I would die for them this day. You are My apostles to spread devotion to My most Sacred Heart and My Mother's Immaculate Heart. She tells you at every rosary, "I am the Immaculate Heart of Mary and I love all My precious children." This is your calling - to spread the love of these two Hearts.

end of excerpt from October 21, 1994

Excerpts from the Red Rosary Book

February 22, 1995 rosary

Transform all who are here to have the courage to carry out the worldwide plan that the Father has set before us. He Who has chosen us to be the Apostles of the Sacred Heart, to go into this world to spread the love of Jesus' burning Heart.

  

March 1, 1995 rosary

Jesus:  I call out to you this day to harken to My pleading to be about this world spreading My love. There are souls that are at stake, depending upon what you do with your lives. Will you spread My love? Will you be My mouthpiece to this world? I call out to you. You must stand strong and pray to the Spirit for He transforms you from fear to fearlessness. You are My apostles to go into this world and spread the love of My Most Sacred Heart!

Jesus:  I beg you to spread this love in every corner of this world this day. You are apostles that I send into this world.

  

March 30, 1995 rosary

Mary:  He has chosen this Center to be apostles to go out into the world and to spread the love of His Most Sacred Heart through my Most Immaculate Heart. Can you not answer the call that I give to you this day?

     

   

October 13, 1994

    "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.'

end of October 13, 1994 message given to Fr. Carter

May 13, 1997 Rosary on Tom's Farm

THE GLORIOUS MYSTERIES

The Resurrection

1. Jesus speaks:  Open wide your hearts, My beloved ones, for I am with you in a special way on this day. There are many changes that are occurring in your lives. You must let go and surrender for I am separating the sheep from the goats and you will be a strong body. You will be a body joined in one mind and one heart to help carry the light into the darkness. Do not be afraid for I am here and My Mother is here in a special way. I will guard you.
Song: "I will be with you."

2. Messenger:  And so where does our journey take us. This is the Shepherds of Christ Movement. It is not yet three years old and it has spread internationally all over this world. We have received many messages from Jesus, from Mary, and from the Father telling us how we could advance in spreading the love of the Sacred Heart and helping to bring about His reign and the triumph of her Immaculate Heart. We have been given so many messages that will help renew the Church and the world. We have been given prayers in the prayer manual, that will help to turn the priests hearts to holy priests. And this is our mission, our mission is to help renew the Church and the world and bring about the completion of the Fatima message. The Fatima mission has been oppressed for 80 years. It has been blocked over and over again in the Church and in the world. Do we think that Mary will go away? Do we think that the Father will change His plan because of willful men? Is this not the reason why we are in this state to begin with? For it is that Eve ate of the fruit and Adam and Eve sinned, an act of the will in which they did their will over God's. And it is that the Father is well pleased when we obey His will. How is our world today? Is our world aligned with the will of the Father or are we a willful race? I would like to read to you the message of the Father given on January the 18th. It is most important that you also read this message and the message of the Father from January 11th and study these messages. We must see things as from the Father's perspective as from the I Am. We must see them in their whole view. We are creatures that are walking the earth but we must see that sinful man has disobeyed the Father and that we must make reparation to Him for our sins. Adam and Eve sinned. God came into this world to save us from our sins. Mary appears at Fatima and she tells us, "You must, my beloved children, come through my Immaculate Heart. You must make reparation. You must tell God that you are sorry for your sins," and we ignore her. But she promises to us that there will be a great reign in which the Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign, in which men will know God in this great light similar to before when Adam and Eve had the light, that there will be this great era of intimacy with God, and man will know God. But why, why, should God lead us in to the great era of peace and love? Have we shown God that we recognize the fact that we are sinners, that we are sorry for our sins, that we come to Him as little dependent children, that we love God with our whole heart, our whole soul and our whole being, and that we want to make reparation for our sins? Or do we come with haughty hearts, with willfulness and we do not listen to the Father? Why should we go into this new era? The new era will come about. It will come about peaceably if we do what they have told us to do. The Father is telling us now very strongly exactly what we must do. We must begin these prayer chapters to help to lead the priests to holiness, to help renew the Church and the world, to help to bring about consecration in the hearts of the priests, of the sisters, of the people. The Father is telling us what to do. He gave great gifts at Falmouth. This is what He said, "I gave great gifts to you allowing Mary to appear and because of willful men they did not cherish these gifts and so I used Falmouth as an example of the chastisements to come if you do not obey. And what am I telling you to do, My children? I am telling you to begin these prayer chapters. I am telling you to pray as my Son Jesus has instructed you to pray. I am telling you to spread this priestly newsletter that it will greatly renew the Church and the world." The devil will try to do everything he can to stop us. But the Father has told us over and over again that we must begin these prayer chapters, that we must pray these prayers fervently ourselves, that there will be this era of great peace and love. In December, if you study the all night message, (December 29, 1996) if you study the messages of Jesus and Mary, you see the intensity as it builds. Mary says, "I cannot hold back the hand of my Son any more." October the 5th, "His hand is struck with power." Jesus appears on the cross on December the 5th after Mary appeared for two years and four months and His mouth is moving and He says, later, that no one is listening to Him. Then I received strong messages December the 19th, December the 22nd. December the 19th Mary says that she appears on a building in Florida because we have made money our God. She also says that the time is nigh." And Jesus gives to me a strong message for the first time and He said, "There will be chastisements and the moon will turn to blood and I am telling you what you must do. You must go to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. The grace is outpoured in the Mass." On December the 22nd, He gives another message where He speaks about chastisements. All of these messages in the sequence is very important to the Father's plan. They are in the Apostles Manual. The Father begins to speak in January and He says, "You have ignored my Son and now you will ignore Me?" And so I received the strongest messages all through December and February to where I had knots in my stomach and He kept talking about Falmouth and He kept saying how we did not cherish the gifts that He had given. And then there was the flood. And after this the Father said that this was only a little example of what is to come if we do not do as He has asked us to do. It is so simple. We are children that are willful. We are children that must obey our Father. We must pray. We must tell Him that we are sorry for our sins. The prayers in the prayer manual are the prayers that Jesus gave to us to help to turn the priests to holy priests, to help to renew the Church and the world, and to help to bring about the completion of the Fatima message. The priestly newsletter is written by Father Carter but Jesus is writing the newsletter through him to teach His priests about His burning love, to teach them all that they need to know to be holy priests celebrating the Mass and ministering to all of the people. This is a great gift from God and in all great gifts that are given we experience much suffering as we see in the life of Jesus, for He died but He rose on the third day.

3. The message of the angel from Fatima says this: "The angel came… bearing a golden chalice in one hand and a Host above it in the other. The amazed children noticed that drops of blood were falling from the Host into the chalice. Presently, the angel left both suspended in mid-air and prostrated himself on the ground saying, this beautiful prayer: 'Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly. I offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifferences by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and [the intercession of] the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of Thee the conversion of poor sinners.'"(The Spirituality of Fatima and Medjugorje, p. 9)

4. And so He came and He rose on the third day to give us life and we share in His divine life. And He gives to us Himself in the Holy Eucharist. In the Mass, the sacrifice of Calvary is sacramentally made present. It is at this time that we must tell God that we are sorry for our sins, that we want to make reparation for our sins, that we give our hearts to God. For as we unite in this sacrifice with Jesus on the cross to the Father, we make this great act of reparation for our sins. We are a sinful race. We will be blessed and given great gifts when we act as the Father intends us to act. We are sinful. We have as the Father said "run amok". We are doing our own wills. And so the Father speaks on January the 18th and He says, "I am the Father. My plan is unfolding through you, My beloved priest and Rita and the core group in the Shepherds of Christ Movement. I tell you all to read the accounts of Noah. Nowhere in history has God been offended as He is this day by this sinful world. You will suffer a fate for your offenses against God. Mary appeared at Fatima to warn you, the sinful children, how they are offending God, but you did not listen. The war did not change the hearts of many evil men." Eighty years ago Mary appeared at Fatima and she told us what we should do and we did not pay attention. And Mary said, "If you do not do what I tell you to do, there will be a great war." And the whole world suffered from World War II because they did not listen to their heavenly Mother. "I warn you through My beloved daughter, Mary. You did not heed her warnings. Disobedience against the Mother I gave you displeases Me greatly. Mary is the Mother of all children. Mary is a gift from Me, but you are willful and abuse the gift I sent you. You do not make reparation to her Immaculate Heart; you continue to offend her. I will not tolerate the deeds of evil men any longer. My plan will unfold."

5. Jesus came to this earth and He gave Himself as a sacrifice for love of men. I saw Him on the cross with His withered body. I saw Him at the point of death and I saw His mouth move and He said later that no one is listening. Do we not hear the words of our beloved Savior as He speaks to us over and over again in the Mass? How are our minds when we go to the Mass? Are we focused and trying to be in one heart with our beloved Savior in offering the Holy Sacrifice in order to make reparation to the Father? Is this our consuming desire: to give love to the Almighty God? For this is the greatest act of love that God gives Himself to us in the Mass. We are a blind race. We are willful. We are haughty. Jesus has given to us these messages in order that we will turn our hearts to hearts of love, that we will turn our hearts to hearts that praise God, that love God and love one another, that we tell God that we are sorry for the offenses that we have committed against Him, and that we will -- obey Him and love Him     and live according to the Father’s will.

6. And so the Father speaks, “I am the Father, the Almighty God, the Alpha and Omega; you are a sinful people, a chosen race sinning against a loving God.  I am angered at your ways for they are not My ways.  You have run amok.  You have offended your God and You have disobeyed your Mother and My beloved Son Who died for you.”  The Father warned and He has warned again and He has told us what we must do.  The resurrected Lord is here with us this day.  He gives Himself to us in the Holy Eucharist and He is treated with such indifference and such disrespect.  And this is what the angel speaks of in the Fatima message, “I offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all tabernacles of the world in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifferences by which He is offended.” (The Spirituality of Fatima and Medjugorje, p. 9)

7. The angel continues and says, “Take and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly outraged by ungrateful men!  Make reparation for their crimes and console your God.” (The Spirituality of Fatima and Medjugorje, p. 10)

8. And so the Father speaks, “I will act on all who continue in such sin.  The sheep will be separated from the goats; the goats will receive punishment for their deeds.  Heaven and earth will kiss and there will be love in all hearts.  Justice will prevail and My children will be children of light, children that obey as I intended from the beginning.”

9. Let us turn our hearts to our beautiful Savior Jesus Christ, Who gave Himself to His death on the cross and Who rose on the third day.  Let us be the soldiers that He has called us to be in the bitter pain and the suffering that we suffer to go forth and to spread the word of God.  Let us ask for the grace to suffer this persecution, but realize that as Mary promised at Fatima that there will be this great reign of peace in which the Sacred Heart of Jesus will Reign and the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph, that we have majorly been called by God here this day to hear this message.

   Jesus speaks:  I give to you, My children, I give to you My Sacred Heart.  I am asking you to march into the darkness and to carry the light, the light that comes forth from My burning Heart of love.  You will be pressed on.  You will be stamped on.  You will suffer and be persecuted, for the devil wants you stopped.  You must be strong.  You must know that I am strengthening you for the task at hand.  You will be strong soldiers.  You wear the marks of battle.  You are marching into a world in which many are godless to carry My light.

   Messenger: I see our beloved Jesus before me as I saw Him once at Immaculata adorned in the brightest light and transfigured before my face.  This will be the banner of light that we will carry into this darkened earth.  But we must stay rooted firmly in Him.  We must give our hearts to Jesus and to Mary, that we will be pure, that we will be able to withstand the torture that we will suffer as we go into battle as soldiers carrying the white flag which will lead to victory.

10. Does not Jesus wear the marks of battle?  I see Him now.  When I go to the Eucharist, I see Him as the Jesus on the front of the Apostles’ Manual with His hands outstretched and the blood in His hands.  Look at His wounds; they are glorified wounds.  He wore the marks of battle and He came forth victorious in the end.  We too will come forth victorious, for we will wear a white flag and we will carry the message of our beloved Savior into this world.  Many will know about Him, will know about His love and His Divine Life because we will tell them what He has shared with us.

Song between decades: “I come to you with greatest love…”

   Jesus speaks:  Are you afraid? Are you afraid, My beloved ones, to march into battle?  How are your hearts, are they rooted in Me or are they fearful?  I am the Almighty God.  It is with My might that you will go forth into this world and there will be victory, for I have won and many hearts will turn to hearts of love as you march forth into the darkness and carry My flag of light and the hearts will be lighted with the fire of My love.  Their hearts will be alive with My burning love.  Look at your world this day.  Look at the children, how many hearts are alive with God’s love?  How many children are being told about My love?  How many people this day are focused on so many things, but do not even give Me a thought?  You are the soldiers I am sending.  Will you say “no” when it gets tough? I will weed out the strong ones from those that are not truly committed.  And it will be with this small in number that the soldiers will march forth into this world, and they will carry the flag of victory.

 

The Ascension

1. It is His Might that will accomplish this task, not mine, not yours, but His Might, as we identify more and more with Him.  And so what does He give to us in order that we can unite more with Him?  He gives us Himself in the Holy Eucharist. We share in such intimacy with the divine God.  We walk down the aisle and we receive God within our breast.  Why do we fear when the Almighty God loves us so much that He gave Himself as a sacrifice on the cross, and He remains with us this day and He gives Himself to us in the Holy Eucharist?

2. Song: “I am the Bread of Life…”

   Jesus speaks:    I love you.  I love you.  I love you.  I am with you at this very moment.  No matter how you feel in your heart give all your cares to Me and I will bathe you in My precious love.  I am the Almighty God.  I give to you a sharing in My Divine life and My Divine love.

3. “I offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifferences by which He is offended.  Take and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly outraged by ungrateful men.  Make reparation for their crimes and console your God.” (The Spirituality of Fatima and Medjugorje, p. 9-10)

4. And so He gives to us an abundant sharing in His divine life when we go to the Eucharist.  And how is He treated?  Horribly outraged.  Are we honoring God?  Are we praising God?  Are we giving thanks to God?  Are we loving God? Jesus has given to us the Mass Book. He has given to us the writings of Father Carter in the priestly newsletter in order to instruct the priests more so that they will turn their hearts to hearts of burning love, love for their Savior, that they will consecrate their hearts and give their hearts to Jesus and Mary.  And what about reparation?  Do we even hear about this?  Look at this, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the sacrifice of Calvary, sacramentally made present.  I know that I am a sinner.  But I know this, I know that if I go to the Immaculate Heart of Mary that I can unite in deep union with Christ.  And in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, I unite in deep union with Christ and offer myself to the Father and tell God, “I am sorry for my sins, and for the sins of all men.”  We are a nation.  We are a race.  We must make reparation to God for the creatures of this earth.  We must cry out at the Lamb of God, “Lamb of God, have mercy on us, have mercy on us.”  The Father is displeased with the creatures of this earth.  They are our brothers.  This is what is being said in the Fatima message: we must make reparation to God for we are creatures that have offended our God and we must give Him our love and tell Him that we are sorry.

5. We unite in this deep union with Jesus when we give our heart to the heart of Mary.  How many times I am at the Mass and I see my sins before me.  And I just say, “Oh, Jesus I love You so much and I want to be one with You so much, Jesus.”  I say, “Mary, I give you my heart that I can be pure in your heart and unite deeply to the Heart of Christ.”  As I unite with Jesus in this Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, as my sacrifice becomes one with His sacrifice and I offer it to the Father and tell Him that I am sorry for my sins and the sins of all men, this is most pleasing.  We must make reparation to God, for we are a sinful race.  We are offending God.  This is what Mary tells us, she tells us that we must make reparation.  Why should God give us the light?  Why should He take us into the new era?  Men march around this earth with haughty hearts.  They ignore God.  They do not even tell Him that they are sorry for their sins.  They do not even recognize that they have been tainted by the sin of Adam.  They are haughty in their hearts.  And Mary appears and she says, “You are offending God.  You are a sinful race.  You must give your heart to me and when you give your heart to me, you will unite in such depth with my Son Jesus.  Offer a sacrifice to the Father.  Offer a sacrifice united to the sacrifice of Jesus.  Make reparation for your sin, men.  I am your Mother.  I am telling you what to do.”  And so what do we do?  We curse our Mother.  We ignore our Mother.  We do not do what our Mother tells us.  Eve decided that she would do what she wanted.  What is wrong with us that we do not see that we must obey, obey the will of God.

6. Song: “I am the vine.  You are the branches...”

7. And I heard Him call out on Ascension Thursday several years ago, “I am alive.  I am alive.  I am alive.”  How is God treated this day?  He said that He is treated as a dead object and how it offends Him so greatly when people go to the Eucharist, especially, and they do not even talk to Him or give thought to Him.  This morning at Mass the whole front of the church was covered in a celestial light and I saw the altar of sacrifice.  And then Jesus was exposed after the Mass and I had such a realization of how we make great reparation to God when we unite to the sacrifice of Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and we offer ourselves as a sacrifice to the Father and we tell Him that we are sorry for our sinfulness.  We must do what God is telling us to do.  We must spread these messages.  We must spread the Mass Book and Father Carter’s Newsletter Book.  Priests need to have hearts that are consecrated to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.  They must give their heart to the Immaculate Heart of Mary that they can be so one in their relationship with Jesus.  The world is in need of renewal.  There is much poison in the Church and the world.  And so we come and we shake our books of prayers and we say, “Pray for the priests.  Pray for the priests.”  We do not have to say. “Jesus said that you should pray for the priests.”  All we have to do is take the book with the imprimatur and say to the people in the churches, ‘This will help renew the Church and the world.  It will help priests to be holy priests.  It is all in prayer.’”  We must do what Mary said at Fatima and consecrate our hearts.  When we pray these prayers, we are doing what Mary told us to do and it will help to bring about the Reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  He is alive and He is treated as a dead object in many cases.  We are the soldiers, the soldiers of light, to carry the light into the darkness.  And as men consecrate their hearts to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, as they are born and brought forth in the womb of the Lady clothed as the sun, brought forth in her immaculate womb, they will be brought forth children of light and will know God with the greatest love, for to know Him is to love Him.  How I long for this great Reign when men’s hearts will be burning and on fire for the love of God.

8. Song: “Oh, burning Heart, oh love divine…” 

    And He speaks and He says, “I love you.  I love you.  I love you. I give Myself to you.”  And the angel said at Fatima how horribly outraged is the Almighty God.  It is up to us to spread these prayer chapters, to do what He wants us to do, to spread the second Blue Book that people will go to the tabernacle and realize the great gift that they are given in the Mass, to spread the Mass Book which is a great gift for it tells us from Jesus’ point of view what is going on in the Mass, but it will have the imprimatur so it can be used by the priests and in the Church, and we will not suffer any persecution and men will know the great gift that God gives to us in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.  It is Himself.

9. Hail Mary…

10. Hail Mary…

Song between decades: “Come Holy Spirit, fill our hearts…”  

        The Descent of the Holy Spirit

1. Eighty years ago today, May the 13^th, 1917, the words of Our Lady, “Do not be afraid.  I do you no harm….  I am from Heaven.  I have come here to ask you to come here six months in succession on the 13^th day, at the same hour.  Later on, I will tell you who I am and what I want.  Are you willing to offer yourselves to God and bear all the sufferings He wills to send you, as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended, in supplication for the conversion of sinners?  Pray the Rosary everyday in order to obtain peace for the world, and the end of the war.” (The Spirituality of Fatima and Medjugorie, p. 12-13)

2. On June the 13^th, Mary spoke.  “There were about 70 people present, and the children were the only ones that could see the apparition.  She told the youngsters that many souls go to Hell because they have no one to pray and to make sacrifices for them.  She said that Francisco and Jacinta would soon leave the world for Heaven.  Holding out her heart, surrounded by thorns which pierced it from all sides, Our Lady told Lucia, ‘God wishes for you to remain in the world for some time because He wants to use you to establish in the world devotion to My Immaculate Heart.  I promise salvation to those who embrace it.’”  What a promise!  “And their are souls will be loved by God as flowers placed by myself to adorn His throne.” (The Spirituality of Fatima and Medjugorie, p. 13)

3. In July, she spoke, and she said, “You have seen Hell, where the souls of poor sinners go.  To save them, God wishes to establish, in the world, devotion to my Immaculate heart.  If people do what I tell you, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.  The war (World War I, then raging) is going to end.  But if people do not stop offending God, another and worse one will begin in the reign of Pius XI.  When you see a night illuminated by an unknown light [January 2, 1938], know that this is the great sign that God gives you that He is going to punish the world for its many crimes by means of war, hunger and persecution of the Church and the Holy Father.” (The Spirituality of Fatima and Medjugorie, p. 14)

    And so Jesus spoke in December twice and He told me about chastisements and then the Father began to speak.  And the Father said, “You have disobeyed Mary.  You have disobeyed Jesus.  Now you will disobey Me?  You will suffer a fate.”  And then He spoke of Noah and from that point on until the day of the flood, my stomach was in knots.  And then the day of the flood He spoke that the world has so much poison.  And at the peak of the poison, He will pour down the anecdote in these revelations and they will turn from their sinful ways; but many souls will be lost.  And the Father spoke later and He said, “I gave you gifts at Falmouth and you did not respond.  I gave to you a chastisement.  This is an example of what will happen to the earth if you do not respond.  I am telling you to spread the prayer chapters, to pray the prayers and to spread the priestly newsletter, the Mass Book, and the Priestly Newsletter Book and the Children’s Rosary Book.  All of these things have the imprimatur."  If we do what the Father says, if we make reparation to her Immaculate Heart, He said that He would lessen and/or not give us the chastisements.  But if we do not, He said in several messages that He would wipe off the face of the earth. (Father Carter discerned all of these messages, the following messages are in the Apostle's Manual - January 18, 1997: "Oh indeed My sweet messenger, I look to the earth and see the darkness, I see the disobedience of men against their Mother. I know the deeds committed and the evil in the hearts of so many. Justice will prevail and I will wipe out the earth. Only the children of light will remain, those who have given their hearts to their Mother Mary...") (Also from January 18, 1997: "You are a sinful, willful race, and the devil will vanish from the hearts of the children of light for they will be under the protection of her Immaculate Heart, the other children will be wiped off the face of the earth.") (Jesus said December 22, 1996: "I give water to quench your thirst, I bathe you in My divine love, but to the evil doers, I will curse their name and wipe them from the face of the earth.") (Jesus said March 26, 1996: "Filled with My love, you will conquer this earth, not with weapons and powder or force, but with fires of My love. The fire will wipe out the hatred in the cold hearts and the earth will be covered with My celestial light." All of these messages where discerned by Father Carter.)  The messages are very strong.  I beg you to read the messages in this Apostles Manual.  It is so simple to just do what they are telling us to do.  Do we think that if Mary told us this 80 years ago and we did not obey that the Father will just change His plan because of willful men?  This is the whole course of things.  It is because of the willfulness of Adam and Eve that the Father is displeased.  He is displeased with our sins.  He wants us to make reparation, to pray, to honor the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and to go to the Heart of Jesus.  How can we say “no” 80 years later when He has called us the soldiers of light, the shepherds, that will go out and will help lead the flock into one fold under His guidance?  He has majorly guided us through Father Carter.  We have been very graced that God gave us a holy priest and that He did discern all of these messages, that he was here rosary after rosary after rosary and supported us and told us what we must do, that he is God’s chosen instrument to write the priestly newsletter to renew the Church and the world.  And so, we speak of the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles.  Let us cry out from the bottom of our hearts, “Dear Holy Spirit, descend upon us and turn our hearts from fearful hearts to fearless hearts that we will be the apostles, as the Father intends us to be, to help to usher in this great era.  And we will walk, and as we walk, we will be pressed on and persecuted for the mission that He entrusts to us will help with the salvation of millions of souls, and the devil wants us stopped.  Our beloved Father Carter is here in his heart with us.  We are all joined in this Movement in one mind and one heart to help to renew the Church and the world, especially through these prayer chapters, through the prayers that Jesus has given us, through the priestly newsletter to pray for the priests, and to consecrate our own hearts and to grow in the deepest oneness with our beloved, adorable Savior.

  

   

4. “If my request are granted, Russia will be converted and there will be peace.  If not, she will scatter her errors throughout the world, provoking wars and persecutions of the Church.  The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, and various nations will be destroyed….  But in the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph, the Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, Russia will be converted, and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world.” (The Spirituality of Fatima and Medjugorie, p. 15)

5. “On August the 13^th, “consequently Our Lady did not appear to the children on this particular 13^th.  The authorities fearing reaction on the part of the people, quickly released the children” for they were locked in jail.  “Mary appeared to them on August 19^th near Valinhos.  She told them that she was greatly displeased by the action of the mayor.  As a result, the miracle promised for October would not be as impressive as originally planned.” (The Spirituality of Fatima and Medjugorje, p. 16)

6. If the Fatima message has been held back, if it has been blocked as it has for 80 years, if the children of Fatima were locked in jail, what makes us think that we would not suffer as we are suffering here today?  For it is very hard in my heart that Father Carter is not here.  Our president John has helped us in so many ways, and each one of us are the apostles.  As we read the Acts of the Apostles and we hear the scriptures every day, we know that our lives are very similar to those of the apostles, and we truly live the gospel message.

7. On October 13, 1917, there were more than 70,000 people gathered in the Cova da Iria in Fatima, Portugal… Shortly afternoon, Our Lady appeared to the three visionaries..., what occurred was the miracle of the sun…

    Then a gasp of terror rose from the crowd, for the sun seemed to tear itself from the heavens and come crashing down upon the horrified multitude.... Just when it seemed that the ball of fire would fall upon and destroy them, the miracle ceased, and the sun resumed its normal place in the sky, shining forth as peacefully as ever.”
(The Spirituality of Fatima and Medjugorie, p. 4) 

    A great sign was given, but they still did not respond to the great sign of Our Lady.  And Our Lady spoke and she said, “I am Our Lady of the Rosary.  I have come to warn the faithful to amend their lives and to ask pardon for their sins.  They must not offend Our Lord anymore, for He is already too grievously offended by the sins of men.  People must say the Rosary.”  Our Lady told us we must say the rosary.  “Let them continue saying it every day.” (The Spirituality of Fatima and Medjugorje, p. 16)

    Mary has told us what we must do, but we are not obeying our beloved Mother.  Jesus has given to us signs and told us that we must turn from our ways.  The Father has spoken and He has given to us a great sign in Falmouth, Kentucky.  He is imploring all of us here to be the apostles to help usher in this great era.  And so the apostles went forth and there were thousands converted, for they were filled with the Holy Spirit.  They were not afraid.  And they spoke in foreign tongues and all understood.  It is not with our might that we go forth.  It is with the Might of the Almighty God.  For as we give ourselves to Mary and give ourselves to Him, we unite in deep union with Him and as we become more and more one in Him, He operates through us.  He is showing us in these sufferings that He has given to us.  I have never learned to pray as I have.  I know fervently that I can pray and that God truly is hearing our prayers.  But it is not me, it is His Might that is operating here, that we must surrender ourselves totally and let Him operate through us, that we must try to be more one with Him, that we must intercede to all the saints and angels and the Blessed Mother and beg the Father, in union with Jesus, in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass that this great era of peace will come soon and that men will turn their hearts to hearts of love.

8. When Pentecost day came round, they had all met together, when suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of a violent wind which filled the entire house in which they were sitting; and there appeared to them tongues as of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak different languages as the Spirit gave them power to express themselves. (Acts of the Apostles 2:1-4)

    Song: “Come Holy Spirit, fill our hearts…”

9. Jesus has asked us to pray the Infant novena every hour for Father Carter.  But in so doing, it is uniting us at every hour on the hour.  It is as we unite in one body, as we unite in the Morning Offering, in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, with one another, as we say this prayer hourly for Father Carter, and we ask, and we seek and we knock that our prayers will be answered that we ask the Father in the name of Jesus, through the powerful intercession of Our Lady that our prayers will be answered, for He is the Almighty God.  Look at this.  See the Father, the Father above, and He looks down at the earth.  He is the I Am.  He is not as we are.  But He looks down at the earth.  He sees the sins of men.  He sees us as creatures, as a chosen race that is not obeying God.  He sends Mary as a messenger to tell us that we must make reparation for our sins.  We disobey.  He sends her over and over and over again.  Jesus gives to us these messages deep from within His Heart to bring about the reign of His Heart and they are blocked and ignored and treated, not with love, but with much anger, and they are analyzed and people are not treasuring the gift that He gives.  Finally the Father speaks.  He said, “I am the Father.  You have disobeyed Mary.  You have disobeyed Jesus.  Now you think you will disobey Me?  I will chastise the earth.”  So He sends to us the gifts, and He gives to us an example in Falmouth, and then He tells us what we must do.  Will you be His shepherd?  Will you go into the world?  Will you help?  Will you be the one that fervently prays, this day?  He is very disappointed by the prayer life of many of His religious, of many of His faithful.  He has called us to pray fervently.  We are praying fervently for the religious, for the renewal of the Church and the world.  He is calling us to be His apostles.  We will see miracles happen, for it is His Might behind us.

10. Hail Mary…

After the Glory Be:

    He ascended into heaven, but He left behind the apostles to carry out His work.  And He gives to us Himself in the Holy Eucharist, for He is alive and He is truly present in the tabernacle in His Divinity and His humanity.  And so we sing the song that He asks us to sing to remind ourselves.

    Song: “I will be with you that is my promise…”

    And He will weed out the army so that what is left is a strong army in order to march into this world, where there is much willfulness and hatred and darkness and He is covering us with His most precious Blood.  I received a message on Friday.  He called it Bloody Friday and this is what He said.  He was asking us to stop at the hours of 9, 12 , 3 and 6 o’clock and to just say a short prayer for the Shepherds of Christ Movement, to cast the devil into hell and He said at these hours when we pray that He will dress us in His precious Blood.  We are being dressed in His precious Blood, ready to go into battle.  Our arms are the weapons that He has given to us.  They are His love.  Why are we afraid?  We go into battle and we carry our rosary.  This is a great weapon that Our Lady has given to us to help to fight off Satan and she told us at Fatima that we must pray the rosary.

    

   

The Assumption

1. Jesus speaks: Are you afraid? Are you afraid now?  I am telling you that you must pray to the Holy Spirit every day.  Make a novena to the Holy Spirit continually.  The Holy Spirit will transform your hearts from hearts of fear to hearts that are fearless.  I am Jesus, your beloved Savior.  Your might is in Me.  My sweet wonderful loved ones, I give you My Heart on fire and burning for love of you.  Will you carry this love into the world?  Will you tell those that are hurting, that are suffering, that are in pain that Jesus loves you, that Jesus has given Himself for love of you?  

    Messenger:  He is the light of the world.  He shows us that the Almighty God came in the womb of a human creature and He was brought forth.  We too must go to our Mother.  We must be brought forth as children of light through the action of the Holy Spirit and as we go to the womb of the woman, to her Immaculate Heart, we are brought forth into the light and we know God in a different way.  We know God in a way that we can not help but love Him for He opens up the shade and we see.  And what we see makes our heart burn for to know Him is to love Him.  Now we are a people walking as in a fog for we do not see.  We do not know or we would not be offending God.

2. On October the 13^th, 1917, there were more than 70,000 people gathered in Portugal.  They had come to observe the miracle.  Lucia and her two cousins, shortly after noon, Our Lady appeared to them and this is what they said.  

    “As the Lady was about to leave, she pointed to the sun.  Lucia excitedly repeated the gesture, and the people looked into the sky.  The rain had ceased, the clouds had parted, the sun shone forth but  not in its usual brilliance.  Instead, it appeared like a silver disc, pale as the moon, at which all could gaze without straining their eyes.  Suddenly, impelled by some mysterious force, the disc began to whirl in the sky, casting off great shafts of multicolors.  Red, green, blue, yellow, violet - the enormous rays shot across the sky at all angles, lighting up the entire countryside for many miles around, but particularly the upturned faces of those 70,000 spellbound people.  After a few moments the wonder stopped , but resumed a second and third time - three times in all - within about 12 minutes.  It seemed that the whole world was on fire, with the sun spinning at a greater speed each time.  Then a gasp of terror from the crowd, for the sun seemed to tear itself from the heavens and come crashing down upon the horrified multitude….  Just when it seemed that the ball of fire would fall upon and destroy them, the miracle ceased and the sun returned to its normal place in the sky, shining forth as peaceably as before.” (The Spirituality of Fatima and Medjugorje, p. 3-4)

3. “When the people arose from the ground, cries of astonishment were heard on all sides.  Their clothes, which had been soaking wet and muddy, now were all clean and dry.  Many of the sick and crippled had been healed of their afflictions.” (The Spirituality of Fatima and Medjugorje, p. 4)

    On May the 13^th of 1993, we had gone to Conyers and the same thing happened to us.  We were covered with water.  It was so awful I couldn’t believe it.  The umbrella turned inside out and all of our possessions were sopping wet.  It was so terrible - the rain.  I couldn’t believe how awful it was and I started to cry when I got to the car because I had lost my children.  And my feet were wet like they were never wet.  Everything that I had - the cameras were sopping wet.  I put them in the car and it was like instantly, they all dried up and this peace came over me.  And from that time I have felt a difference in my heart for I know what is important are the things that Our Lady is telling us.  Before I was worried about the plaques in the back of the car, and the cameras, and myself and being wet.  But at that point she gave me a greater gift for at that point I knew that what was important was what she was telling us.  She had said that darkness had covered the earth and that we were offending God similar to what Mary said at Fatima.  But no one was listening.  Will you listen to this message that Jesus speaks today?  For Mary called, called, called to so many visionaries and she relayed the message.  This is Jesus’ plan for the completion of the Fatima message.  It began October the 13^th of 1996.  Mary started in May and ended October the 13^th.  Jesus started with me on October the 13^th and has given us the messages in the tapes to circulate, to listen to as candle rosaries and He has promised great gifts because He is telling us what to do to help bring about the completion of the Fatima message for the renewal of the Church and the world.  These tapes are so important to Jesus and He said that when we do the candle rosary that He will give the greatest grace to those people present, the same as when the rosary was given on the 13^th of the month.  He wants us to know the messages He has given.  Will you listen to the messages that Jesus gives today or will the Father have to take action more and more because we are not doing what He is telling us to do, for Mary promised at Fatima that there will be a reign of peace.  How are we going to go from where we are today to this reign of peace?  What sign do you think God should give us to get our attention? For we are stubborn and willful in our ways.  We have not learned our lesson.  We are still willful.  Many are not doing what God is telling us to do and obeying His will.  Many do not obey the commandments.  We do not love God, many of us as we should.  Many do not go to church and do not want to help make reparation to God for the offenses against Him.  We are a sinful race.  We, His people, must make reparation for ourselves and for our brothers.  God sees us as a nation, as a family.  He sees us offending Him.

4. Hail Mary…

5. Miracles are signs given to men in order that they take notice so that they will be obedient to the commandments – so that they will love God and love one another.

6. And so we pray the rosary.  We meditate on the lives of Jesus and Mary.  We see their lives more and more and we see that the angel appeared to Mary, asked her to be the Mother of God.  And Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.”  We see that Mary always complied to the will of the Father.  We see that Jesus, who is God, always did the will of the Father.  This is most important that we live according to the Father’s will.

7. And Mary was assumed into heaven.  She lived her life according to the Father’s will.  Jesus lived His life according to the Father’s will and He ascended into heaven.  Jesus and Mary are our models. Jesus and Mary teach us how to live. If we want to go to heaven, we must follow Them.  In the world today there are many, many plans, that are not the plan of the Father.  The more we give our hearts to Jesus and Mary, the more we dwell in their Hearts, the more we live our consecration to Jesus and Mary, the more we will be joined in one mind and one heart and the more likely we are to be operating according to the Father’s will. In schools, as the school children pray the consecration, they are united in one mind and one heart.  There is usually not discord and there is greater peace and harmony as Mary has promised.  As we give our hearts to Mary and Jesus and our Father, there is peace.  Mary appeared at Fatima to tell us that we should give our hearts to her and Jesus and then we will have peace for we will be united in one mind and in one heart with one plan, the plan of the Father.

  

8. I want to read a message given to Father Carter from Jesus

    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!"

9. Hail Mary…

10. Hail Mary…

Song between decades: “Immaculate Mary”

    

The Coronation

1. Hail Mary…

2. Isaiah 30: 19-23
Yes, people of Zion living in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. He will be gracious to you when your cry for help rings out; as soon as he hears it, he will answer you. When the Lord has given you the bread of suffering and the water of distress, he who is your teacher will hide no longer, and you will see your teacher with your own eyes. Your ears will hear these words behind you, ‘This is the way, keep to it,’ whether you turn to right or left.  You will hold unclean the silverplating of your idols and the goldplating of your images. You will throw them away like the polluted things they are, shouting after them, ‘Good riddance!’ He will send rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the bread that the ground provides will be rich and nourishing. That day, your cattle will graze in wide pastures. 

3. And they will see with the light of seven suns, for we will be brought forth from the woman clothed as a sun as children of light and we will know God in a way that we never knew God before.  We will have such intimacy with the Almighty God and such love for Him.  Now we are as a people walking in blindness.

4. And Mary comes and she tells us that we must go through her Immaculate Heart and we do not pay heed to what she tells us.

5. She is the Queen of Heaven and Earth.  She was chosen by the Father as the Mother of all and the Mother of Christ.  He came into this world a helpless little baby in the womb of a human person.  Why do we think that we do not need Mary when Christ showed us?

6. Jesus speaks:  And so this is My message to you, My beloved ones, I ask you to carry out this message to the world.  I ask you to begin the prayer chapters in churches, if possible.  If not, to start all prayer chapters that are possible in your homes and other places.  I have given to you these prayers that will help bring about the renewal of the Church and the world.  You must pray these prayers fervently.  You are My apostles.  I am asking you to help.  I am not asking you to be anxious and to worry.  If you are unable to do some of the prayers, I am asking you to spend an hour with Me each day.  In that hour, I will instruct you on the ways of My Heart.  I will reveal to you the will of My Father for you.  I am Jesus.  I have called you here this day.  This will help bring about the completion of the Fatima message which began 80 years before.

    

7. And the earth was covered with much darkness but the sun came out and the sun was bright as the light of seven suns and their hearts were filled with great joy for they knew the presence of God within them.  They were close to the Almighty God in their hearts and they did not fear for He gave to them a great grace.

8. Jesus speaks:  How can you refuse the Mother that I gave to you? She is filled with grace.  My little ones, you must give yourself to the heart of My Mother.  She will take you to the depth of My Heart and you will know My burning love.  You must be strong, for you will suffer.  You will suffer very many trials -- but…

    Song: “I will be with you that is My promise...”

9. The greatest gift that He gives to us is Himself in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.  For I see Him when I walk the aisle, I see Him with His arms outstretched and He is filled with such love.  And He gives Himself to me, and I am wrapped in the presence of the Almighty God, and nothing, nothing here compares to this union with Him.

10. And we stand with His Mother under the cross pleading to the Father to have mercy on us.  He is the Lamb of God.  He is the Lamb that is sacrificed, and so at every Mass, we cry out, “Lamb of God, have mercy on us.”  It is as if we should prostrate ourselves to the ground and to beg the Father to have mercy on us, a sinful race, and tell Him that we truly are sorry for the offenses of ourselves and the other creatures against God and that we want to be forever in His light and that we want the Sacred Heart of Jesus to reign and the Immaculate Heart of Mary to triumph.  The new Eve.  The new Adam.  The Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

    He ascended into heaven but He speaks to us this day and He tells us…

    Song: “I will be with you that is My promise...”

    Jesus speaks:  I am Jesus.  I have called you here this day to hear this message.  I am asking you to write a letter of intimacy to Me every day.  I am asking you to live by the Blue Book messages for it will become hard and you will suffer much.  You must go to the Blue Book for I will give you My answer to your trials.  I have written these love letters to you.  You must use the Blue Books.  You will go through tremendous suffering and persecution.  Do not lose heart.  I am strengthening you.  You will be strong soldiers.  Many will be left behind.  You must pray fervently for your leader Father Carter.  He is a great gift to this world.  He is writing the priestly newsletter in order to help renew the Church and the world.  You must pray for Him and for His provincial and for all of the priests that are involved.  I am Jesus.  Pray the novena hourly and unite as close to the hour as possible in one mind, in one heart.  Come, My little ones, I will take you into My Heart.  You must go weekly to your chapter meeting for as you go deeper into My Heart, you will suffer, for many will not understand.  You will be strengthened by those that have consecrated their heart to Me.  They will be your family.  You will be My beating Heart in this world.  This is the core chapter I have called here.  You are the strong ones.  You must pray and do as I have told you.  You must live the messages and study the messages.  It will become difficult unless you go to the weekly meeting and unless you live the messages.  You will not be able to survive this calling for it will become more and more difficult as you assume your role as a leader.  I am Jesus.  Will you answer My call?  Will you be a leader?  Will you live by the messages that I give to you?  Will you pray fervently an hour every day and go to Mass and Communion whenever possible, preferably daily?  You must consecrate your hearts.  If you at this time can not do all of these things, I am asking you to do as many as you feel comfortable with, but to stay close to your chapter.  I do not want you to be anxious and filled with fear.  I want you to come to Me and I will comfort you.  You must do only as you can.  I am not demanding that you do all of these things.  I am asking you to study the messages and try more and more to live the messages and to come closer to My Heart.  I am giving to each of you a special grace to be My apostle.  If you want to answer this call, I will give this grace to you now.  I am Jesus.  This is May the 13th, 1997.  What you do here today will majorly help to renew the Church and the world and to help bring about the completion of the Fatima message.  Will you help?  Will you answer the call of My Mother and yours?  Will you answer My call?  Will you answer the call of your Father?  If you say “no”, who will I call?  

    Song: “I will be with you that is My promise…”

    Song: “Oh burning heart, Oh love divine…”

    Message before the Glory Be:  There was a special prayer intention for someone now that is very dear that’s dying and for those helping him so I would like to include that in the prayers and any of the prayers that are in your heart, for there are prayers that you hold in your heart that you wish special attention from Our Lord, Our Lady and the Father.  We give these prayer intentions to you at this time on this special day and we ask for the grace to help carry out the mission you have entrusted to us, to be strong and to not be afraid.

end of May 13, 1997 rosary

June 21, 2003 message continues

Messenger:     The gift God gives us in the Holy Eucharist is real.

February 13, 1997

Talk given by Father Edward J. Carter, S.J.
Founder of Shepherds of Christ Ministries

Talk given February 13, 1997 National Conference of Shepherds of Christ, held at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center, Norwood, Ohio.

Before we begin the rosary, I’d like to say a few words about the great importance of these days on the 13th of each month. Before Our Lord asked me to begin the Shepherds of Christ Ministries, the 1st dimension of that ministries was given to me on May the 31st, 1994. But before Our Lord asked me to start the ministries, I had been given a great devotion to Our Lady of Fatima. And I knew that everything concerning recent Marian apparitions centered around the Fatima message. The Fatima message is key to the peace of the world, as Our Lady of Fatima has told us. So because I had been given a great devotion to Our Lady of Fatima, it was no surprise to me when Our Lord told me, and through me the whole Movement, the great connection that there would be between Shepherds of Christ Ministries and helping to bring the Fatima message to conclusion. I’ll expand more upon that in my talk this afternoon. But here and now I’d like to read just a part of the message I received on October the 13th, 1994, when Our Lord called the full Ministries into existence. It had begun May 31st , some five or six months previous to that. But really October the 13th, 1994, marks the real birth, the complete birth of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. And part of the message I received on that day reads as follows:

"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. Today then, October the 13th, 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, the Chief Shepherd of the Flock."

The calling of Our Lord to Shepherds of Christ to be present if possible at these meetings on the 13th of each month, and if they cannot be present physically, to be present in spirit with us then comes as no surprise. It’s merely another unfolding in the history of the Shepherds of Christ Movement and in the Fatima message.

These 13th of the months meetings are extremely important. They are great instruments which Our Lord and Our Lady are using to help bring to completion the Fatima message, which will result in that great era of peace, which Our Lady of Fatima promised eventually would come to the world.

So I ask you to take these meetings on the 13th of the month with the utmost seriousness, gratitude, thanksgiving, joy that Our Lord, for His own reasons has chosen Shepherds of Christ, the members thereof, the whole Ministries to play such a great part in the completion of the Fatima message. It comes as no surprise either that Our Lord gives special messages during the rosary on the meeting of the 13th, just as Our Lady of Fatima gave messages to the three visionaries at Fatima in 1917, from May through October. So at this stage of the Fatima message’s unfolding, it is no surprise that they continue, and in a new way and a new phase of the Fatima plan, give us these very special messages on the 13th. They are meant not only for us here present, they are meant for all members of the Movement, and eventually for the whole world. All these messages, all these rosaries on the 13th, eventually go onto our Internet with its world-wide audience.

So please, be very grateful to God for the messages He gives us during the rosary. Not everything which Rita says is a message. I think you’ll be able to distinguish when she’s receiving a message from Our Lord or from Our Lady, and when she is speaking from her own heart. Sometimes the transition is very quick and you may miss it, but there are both ways in which meditations are given on the decades: in strict locutions or messages, and then from Rita’s meditations or reflections herself.

(After the Rosary)

I wish to thank everybody who made the effort to be here with us, especially those people who had to travel from out of town. I’m sure the Lord has blessed you already and will continue to do so for your effort to be here. These are extremely important meetings on the 13th of the month. Our Lord has, Himself, instructed us in His great love and mercy for us and the whole world to have them. From these meetings, the messages of Our Lord, the previous message given at Fatima, go out to the whole world...

I sort of left off when I introduced the rosary by reading the rest, or at least a good part of the rest, of that message which I, myself, received on October the 13th, 1994, when Our Lord called the full Shepherds of Christ Ministries into existence.

"My beloved priest-companion, today I come to you with another mission."

He had already asked me on May the 31st of 1994 to start the priestly newsletter and then shortly after that to start the prayer chapters.

"I’m 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."

So (this is) one of the most important messages given in the whole history of our Movement, and I think you can see why. Not only was Our Lord calling the Ministries into full bloom with this message, but He was making that great connection between Shepherds of Christ and the Fatima message.

You see how He says that both the Fatima message and Shepherds of Christ is centered in devotion, and especially in consecration, to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

So in my moments here before you this afternoon, I wish to speak a bit about this consecration.

I’ll start off by reading a message of Our Lord and from "Tell My People" which deals with this consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

"My beloved friend, tell My people that I desire all to consecrate themselves to My Sacred Heart and to Mary’s Immaculate Heart. Tell them not to just recite words in making the Act of Consecration, but to realize what they are saying. Consecration to Our Hearts means a total gift of self. That means handing over everything to Me and My Mother. Consecration means a willingness to surrender completely to Me. In Baptism, one is consecrated to Father, Son and Holy Spirit. But how many fail to live out their consecration? I extend to all the invitation to renew this Baptismal consecration through consecration to My Heart and to My Mother’s Heart.

"My beloved companion, I have taught you what this consecration means. I have given you great peace, joy and happiness because you have made this consecration. I have taught you that you are to renew this act of consecration each day. I constantly remind you that you are to pray each day for the grace to more and more live the consecration. I have taught you that your consecration to Me and My Mother means that you constantly surrender yourself to Us and to Our care. I have taught you that the more you surrender yourself to Me, the more I live in you, and through you and for you. I have taught you that My great love for you longs to draw you more deeply into My Heart. I have shown you that I wish your Mother Mary to place you there within My Heart, and that the more you dwell within her Heart, the more deeply she places you within My Heart. Dwelling within Our Hearts, the Holy Spirit fashions you more and more in My likeness. The Father thus looks upon you with greater favor and takes you more closely to Himself.

"Tell My people all these wondrous truths. I am Lord and Master and I desire all to listen to My words. (end of message)"

And what beautiful words those are, which Christ gives all, to us all regarding the consecration to His Heart and Mary’s Heart.

I want to - after that message of Jesus telling us what consecration involves, I wish to single out a few aspects of the consecration, what it includes. One aspect of our consecration and especially the consecration which Our Lord has given us for Shepherds of Christ, one aspect of our consecration to Their Hearts is to realize that we are apostles and that we are called to go out into the world as we have heard in the rosary today, and other times to be the apostles of His love, of His love and His Mother’s love, and thus to help bring about that great era of peace promised by Our Lord, Our Lady of Fatima in which love will just dominate. That’s what it means when Our Lady says, "In the end," she says, "my Immaculate Heart will triumph." And along with that triumph of her Immaculate Heart will occur the Reign of the Sacred Heart. The Reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of the Immaculate Heart simply is a reign of love, a triumph of love and in that era there will be a type of love existent in the hearts of the members of the human family never known before. We will all be so united in love to the Father and the Holy Spirit through the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. And not only with Them, but with each other. What a glorious era we have to look forward to.

We are apostles. More and more as the Movement has gone on, Jesus is letting us know that, yes, we are supposed to pray. This is one of our primary duties in the chapters and elsewhere, to pray for priests and all others. But more and more He is telling us that now is the time to start to more and more move out from our chapters and to be apostles of His love, to help spread the Movement, to help spread the consecrations in the schools through the consecration cards, the Rosary Aves, both of which have the Imprimatur of the Cincinnati Archdiocese, to help spread all our materials, all our books and all the various rosaries, the rosary tapes. And you are called to do that.

In the beginning of the Movement, it was a relatively few people who were carrying the burden and carrying the Ministry on. We have entered a great new episode of the Movement, principally in that episode, principally centers itself around these meetings of the 13th. More and more people are realizing as they hear more and more the messages, more and more people in the Movement are hearing that Jesus is calling each one of us to be apostles of the Movement, to spread the Movement, to help implement the various ministries in all ways possible, to help spread the movement by starting new prayer chapters. Just think if we have something like, I guess, 2500-3000 members in the chapters and the Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Movement here in this country and throughout the world-most of those, thus far, in this country.

But just think if each person would take it upon himself or herself to go all out to get one more new chapter formed. That’s not impossible, I don’t think that’s asking something heroic. That would double our chapters; that would double our prayer power. And so much of the Movement, the success of it, depends upon the prayer power coming out of the chapters and the Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Movement. So He’s calling all of us; and how admirably so many in the Movement are answering. I wish to single out-just because all of you know about the Florida apparition-four or five, six, I don’t know how many now of our members from Rita’s core group have gone down to the apparition site. One of our main members, Tom A., has a home there at St. Petersburg, and Clearwater is just a short distance from there. And they’ve been going down and staying in his house, and each day going over to the apparition site and handing out our materials, especially the rosary message tape, but other materials also. This is what Our Lord, Our Lady has asked us to do. And they’ve had phenomenal success. We can’t keep enough materials down there. They just, the people are just so eager for it. But this is what. . .and they do it on their own time, they drive down, some of them spend three or four days, some a week and they come back. But what a marvelous example of their answering the call to the apostleship to which Jesus calls them in the Movement. And they’re doing just a tremendous amount of good.

And by the way when I’m talking and as long as I’m talking about Florida I might read you part of that message of Our Lady. You have read it, no doubt if you’d gotten a copy of the picture with the message on the back. But for my own purposes I want to read that here and now. So Mary tells us, this is the message which Rita received on December the 19th:

Mary speaks: My dear children, I give to you, my Son, Jesus, born in a stable in Bethlehem on Christmas morn’. He is the Almighty God the Light of the world.

I appear to you, my children on a bank in Florida. You have made money your god! Do you know how cold are your hearts? You turn away from my Son, Jesus for your money. Your money is your god.

I am Mary, your Mother. I do not appear as I once appeared to you.

When Rita got that message and when she gave it to me, both of us for a number of days thought that her number of apparitions was simply decreasing, but we both came to the conclusion; well Rita came to the conclusion and I followed after her, in agreement with her conclusion, Mary says, "I do not appear as I once appeared to you." She was saying apparently that, "I’m appearing to you in this new way, where the whole world can see me."

So many others’ apparition sites have had their believers of course, but many, many people throughout the world have doubted all this talk about the various apparition sites of Mary. She says, "I do not appear as I once appeared to you." She is appearing on a bank for the whole world to see.

Mary continues:

"I am asking you today to circulate my message given on a tape on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, December 12, 1996. Please circulate this tape now."

That’s one of the main things our apostles down in Florida are doing, handing out the tapes with this message.

Mary continues:

"Please circulate this tape now. Give it to as many people as you can. I am Mary, your Mother. Please circulate my Rosary Book."

She’s referring to a book which Shepherds of Christ Publications came out right around Christmas time. Hopefully all of you have received it in the mail, Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, as given to Rita. Now here’s the point I want to make here and now. Notice how she links up the apparition site with the circulation of her Rosary Book, and we are circulating the book there. But to me, there’s a very great phenomenon connected with the colors on the window, bank windows and the Rosary Book. And Rita herself pointed this out to me. Now this cover on this book-it was designed by Hal K. weeks and even months before the apparition of Our Lady on the bank in Florida. When did you start to design that Hal? (question asked to Harold K.) Almost, two years ago. And the colors were already selected months ago, right? Well if you’ll take the picture of the bank of the apparition of the bank on Florida, and this Rosary Book, you will notice that the colors are the same. To me, that’s a miraculous confirmation of the fact that Our Lady is connecting the apparition site on the bank in Florida with the Shepherds of Christ Ministries in a special way with the rosaries. It’s just phenomenal. You can check the colors out one by one. They’re a little bit brighter on the book, but because of the photography involved I think you can see how they wouldn’t be quite as bright on this. But check out the colors. They’re the same on the Rosary Book and on this. And these colors, as I say, were picked by Hal months and months before the apparition. You can take it for what you want, but for me it’s a miraculous confirmation of this message, that Our Lady chose those same colors which are on the front of her Rosary Book, to show the same colors relative to her apparition there on the bank in Florida.

Therefore, our Florida apostles are one of the many examples I could point out to you of how people in the Movement are more and more taking up the challenge, the invitation of Jesus and Mary to spread this Movement throughout the world. They have chosen the Shepherds of Christ Movement as a great instrument to help bring about the Fatima message. How privileged we are to be part of it, to be called to it. I believe, I’ve told you this before, at least some of you have heard me, I think this Movement is one of the greatest in the history of the Church. And I think history itself will bear that out. So how precious a gift each of us has been given by Our Lord in calling us to be members of this Movement.

Therefore, a very important aspect of our consecration to Their Hearts is to be apostles, to help spread all the ministries. Another aspect of our consecration is the idea of union. I think we’re all very well aware how the consecration unites us to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, and through Them to the Father and the Holy Spirit. But perhaps we don’t think often enough of that how it unites us with one another, in the Movement, in the Church, throughout the whole world. You cannot grow in union with God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit and Mary, without growing in union with all your neighbors. And this is the tough part. It’s relatively easy to love Father, Son and Holy Spirit and Mary, isn’t it? Three Persons in One God infinitely perfect and Mary a human person, perfect, free from all sin. It’s easy to love the Triune Persons and Mary, relatively speaking. But it’s not all that easy to love each other all the time, isn’t it? And yet that’s what Jesus calls us to. Jesus literally died for each and every person. And no matter how unattractive a person is in their behavior, Jesus still died for that person. If He loved that person enough to die for that person, then certainly we have to love them, him or her, and especially within the Movement. Satan is violently attacking us, he will always try to cause division in the Movement. But if we are going to be examples - and we are called to that, to be examples to the whole Church and the whole world of what it’s going to be like in the new era, when we all exist in such great loving union with each other in Christ. We are the forerunners of that. We’re helping to prepare the way for that for the whole Church, for the whole world. Not only us, but we have been given a special mission for that. So we have to be united in love with each other, if we have differences, we work them out in love and in peace. We work them out in love and in peace. In one of the Blue Books, Jesus says, "The glass is either half-empty or it’s half-full." I look at my neighbor, whether he or she is in the Movement or outside of it. I can either look at the half-empty part of the glass or the half-full part. I can either look at that person’s faults and concentrate on them, or I can concentrate on the great goodness which is inherently theirs. If they are in the state of sanctifying grace, their soul is magnificently beautiful, despite the blemishes of their failings of their sins. When I look at a person, do I look at the half-empty part or the half-full part?

Everyday I ask you to pray for a growing unity in the Movement. What Our Lord has allowed us to accomplish so far in less than three years is just miraculous, I think it’s just miraculous. The sign becomes ever and ever greater that He started this Movement, not me. I was just the instrument which He chose to head it up. He has given me so many beautiful people to help me do the Movement and that includes all of you. He has given you so many beautiful companions in the Movement. Let us concentrate on that part of it. This is the only way we’re going to be models to the rest of the Church and the world, of the profound union that Our Lord calls us to, not only with Himself, but with each other.

Strength for all this, day after day, it’s not easy to live this way, is it? But as I said in my homily, the great strength we have for that is the Eucharist. The power of the Eucharist is much greater than your faults or my faults or the faults of others in the Movement that surround you, or the faults of others in your parish, or the rest of the Church and the world. He can give you the strength to arise above your own faults and the faults of others around you, and march forward in the most positive way towards this great new era. Oh what a gift the Eucharist is.

St. Julian Eymard, the founder of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers, who gave us such beautiful writings on the Eucharist, in one of his writings on the Eucharist he says:

"It is true also that the world does all in its power to prevent us from loving Jesus in the most Blessed Sacrament with a real and practical love, to prevent us from visiting Him and cripple the effects of His love. This world engrosses the attention of souls; it finds and enslaves them with external occupations in order to deter them from dwelling too long on the love of Jesus. It even fights directly against this practical love and represents it as optional, as practicable at most only in a convent. And the devil wages incessant warfare on our love for Jesus in the most Blessed Sacrament. He knows that Jesus is there, living and substantially present; that by Himself He is drawing souls and taking direct possession of them. The devil tries to efface the thought of the Eucharist in us, and the good impression made by it; for in his mind, that should decide the issue of the struggle." (That is if we give in to Jesus’ desire to possess us in the Eucharist.) "And yet God is all love. This gentle Savior pleads with us from the Host: "Love Me as I have loved you; abide in My love! I came to cast the fire of love on the earth, and My most ardent desire is that it should set your hearts on fire." ¹

¹St. Peter Eymard, "The Most Blessed Sacrament Is Not Loved!," as in The Treasury of Catholic Wisdom, Fr. John Hardon, S.J., ed.; Ignatius Press, p. 384.

Union amongst ourselves through our union with Jesus and Mary and Father and Holy Spirit. Each of you is so precious to Jesus. He has given each of you a very, very, very special gift, precious gift, in calling you to be involved in this Movement. Very early on in the Movement, it was July 31st of 1994, on the Feast of St. Ignatius, He often gives me very important messages on key feasts, and the Feast of St. Ignatius is a feast for Jesuits, Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits. And He told me in that message that He would give great, great, great graces to those who join the Movement, and hope I’m sure, all of you who have been in the Movement have experienced those great graces. In appreciation for the great graces Jesus has given you in the Movement, I ask you, with great joy and a great sense of responsibility and a great sense of privilege, to do what you can to implement the ministries of the Movement. No one else can do your role, can carry out your part. You are preciously unique, no one exists like you now, no one ever has, no one ever will. It’s you alone who can give Jesus the opportunity to do what He wants through your humanity to help spread the Movement. To the extent that you answer Jesus and give yourselves to Him, and work as time and energy permits, as your other duties permit to help spread the ministries, to that extent you give Him an opportunity which no one else can give Him, and to the extent that you hold back, to this extent He loses this opportunity which no one else can give Him.

A precious Savior who has done so much to each of us. Certainly He deserves our full loving response. As I kneel before the crucifix each day, either before a actual crucifix or one in my mind, let us ask ourselves those questions posed to us by Ignatius Loyola, "What have I done for Christ?" "What am I now doing for Christ?" "What ought I to do for Christ?"

(End of February 13, 1997 talk by Fr. Carter)

shipped from the printers December 17, 1996

Mary appeared December 17, 1996

June 21, 2003 message continues

Messenger:     Fr. Carter died December 18, 2000

June 21, 2003 message continues

Messenger:     Fr. Carter entered the Jesuits on
                            my birthday August 8, 1951 —
                            I was 5, My mom died
                            June 19, 1952 when I was still
                            5 she was 48.

                        When I was 48, Mary began
                            appearing daily to me —
                            and Fr. Carter went —

                        Mary is with us.

                        She is our Mother of the Eucharist.

                        Mary help us to be holy and be
                            led closer to Jesus Sacred Heart.

Excerpt from Priestly Newsletter  1998  Issue #4

As we have indicated, the fruitfulness of each Mass depends greatly on the holiness of the priest offering the Eucharistic sacrifice. An aspect of the priest's holiness is his coming to the altar with that presence of being which allows him to have the greatest appreciation of the awesome event which is to take place. The priest attains the proper presence at the Mass proportionate to his oneness with Christ. In turn, his oneness with Jesus is in proportion to his union with Mary. For it is Mary's God-given role to cooperate with the Holy Spirit in producing the deepening of the image of Jesus within us. Consequently, the more one is united to Mary, the more the Holy Spirit, Whose spouse Mary is, forms us in Christ.

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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