June 22, 2002
June 23rd Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 9 Period I. |
The Novena Rosary Mystery
for June 23rd is Glorious. |
Come to Florida on July 5, 2002.
It is a very special anniversary.
A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb,
the Bridegroom of the Soul
Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the
sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender
myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and
You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul
waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship
You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You
most intimately.
Pray
for 5 urgent intentions.
Pray
for a particular bishop and cardinal.
Pray
for the pope.
We
desperately need funds.
Please pray for this.
June 22, 2002
from Tell My People
Jesus Has Come to Give Us Life
Jesus: "This is the day celebrating My Resurrection 
(Easter).
The day of newness of life. I am Lord and Master. I am the Way, the Truth,
and the Life. Tell My people to come to Me if they wish to experience life
in abundance. I want to give all an ever greater share in the life of My
Resurrection. Without Me you cannot be happy, nor have peace, nor have real
joy. Tell My people to surrender to Me more and more. The more they do so,
the more they will experience My love, wisdom, power, peace, joy, happiness,
mercy, and goodness. Within My Heart My people will find these riches. I am
Lord and Master! Please listen to My words."
Call of the Sacred Heart
Jesus: "Tell My People that I wish them to come to My Sacred
Heart. I show My Heart as symbol of My great love for My people. So many,
however, are cold and indifferent concerning My love for them. Consider all
I have done for My people! I suffered a brutal passion and death for them.
My Body was unmercifully scourged, My head cruelly crowned with thorns, My
hands and feet mercilessly pierced with nails. Oh, how much I suffered in
all this—out of love for My Father and the whole human race! Finally, My
Heart was pierced with the soldier's lance. From My pierced Heart flowed
forth blood and water, symbols of the Eucharist and Baptism. How much My
pierced Heart still loves My people! How I long for each to come to My Heart
in a return of love! All who do will experience My love in a special way.
All who take up their refuge within My Heart will experience love, security,
peace, joy. The world cannot give My people these gifts. I, Who am Lord and
Master, am the One Who gives these gifts."
Trust in Jesus
Jesus: "My beloved priest-companion, tell My people to trust
Me unreservedly. I am Lord and Master. I am their God. So many fail to trust
Me as they should. I love all My people much, much more than they love
themselves. This great love of Mine should encourage the greatest trust. The
more you realize how much a friend loves you, the more you place your trust
in the friend. I am your perfect Friend! I love you infinitely more than
your best earthly friend. Tell My people to give Me their trust. Tell them
to say often, 'Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in You.' I am Lord
and Master. Please do as I request."
Mary Our Mother
Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people to come to My
Mother. From the cross, as I was suffering indescribable agony, I gave Mary
as spiritual Mother to the world. My great love for My people prompted Me to
do this. I am Lord and Master, and I want My people to come to My Mother and
their Mother. If you wish to be close to Me, come to Mary. Consecrate
yourselves to her. In this way you will grow into the closest union with Me.
Through her Immaculate Heart, you will be drawn more and more into My own
Heart. It is My desire that you allow My Mother to place you within My Heart
which loves you with an unfathomable love! This is My wish—that you come
to Me enfolded by Mary's mantle, cradled in her arms, pressed against her
Heart."
End of excerpts from Tell My People
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.’
June 22, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
This addresses our over-active interest in
every fat-cell.
Many do not speak of the gift of Jesus
given in the Eucharist, but we
go to all extremes to analyze
every grain of food we consume
and talk about its importance to
others.
So many people of the earth do not
believe that Jesus is the Son of God.
God is God. God is the Alpha and the
Omega.
I cannot stress the importance of the
First Letter of John.
Please read this, keep this with you as
a reference.
God is.
God is one in 3 Divine Persons.
We want the truth.
Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.
I unite so deeply to Jesus in the Mass and
I offer the sacrifice to the Father in the
Holy Spirit with all the angels and saints.
I pray so deeply at that moment of the
Consecration for the Reign of the Sacred
Heart of Jesus in the hearts of the people of
this earth and that they accept and love
Mary as their spiritual Mother.
I unite to these Masses being offered
around the world all day, and I unite with
the other members in the Shepherds of
Christ, the members of the body of Christ,
praying so deeply for the Reign of the Sacred
Heart. I pray so deeply they know Jesus,
I pray so deeply they know His love and
make Him the King and Center of their
hearts. I pray so deeply they recognize Him
as the Son of God.
What is our mission in the Catholic Church?
We must pray so deeply united to the Mass.
The Mass is so powerful. Our priests are
so important to us.
What did Jesus the Good Shepherd
tell Fr. Carter?
Jesus, the Son of God, told Fr. Carter
8 years ago to begin these prayer
chapters praying for the priests,
the Church and the world.
June 22, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
Oh my sign I show you is this one.
Mary appearing on the building in Clearwater
in the center of the Americas. Mary
is telling us we need to do what Jesus
asked Fr. Carter to do.
Oh Our Priests are so very
important and the administration
of the sacraments especially the Mass.
There is so much power in offering
the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
Oh I suffer so because I want the
world to be one and I want people to
know and love Jesus and make Him
the King and Center of their hearts.
Oh I write to you and plead with you
to pray as Our Lord instructed Fr. Carter
and Jesus promised He would release so much
grace for the priests, the Church and the world
for praying these prayers. He said He would
outpour such grace on our priests, our Church
and our world.
Jesus said He would turn our churches
into little cities of light if we pray.
I
Died For You
February 23, 1994 (excerpt)
Jesus: Priests will create
little cities, little cities in each church to spread the light of Christ to
this sick world. Each priest can create his own little city, a powerhouse of
God's love. God has all the power. His power is endless. It never runs out.
It is might. You have no power except through Him. Churches filled with the
intimate love of Jesus will be powerhouses.
End of excerpt from February 23, 1994 message
June 22, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
Please pray with me for vocations
to all 7 categories in the Shepherds of Christ
Movement. Please pray with me for funds
and all involved.
Look at what Mary said about false gods
when she spoke December 19, 1996
two days after she appeared.
Please help us spread the news of Mary's
image and why she appears.
Read this gospel of Matthew again and
analyze all we talk about and how
little attention is given to the gifts
given to us in the Holy Catholic Church.
How this offends Our Lord that He gives us
Himself in the Eucharist, that He gives
us the Mass and we don't hardly talk
about it and that the Mass, many times,
is so scarcely attended.
June 22, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
Oh my God, I am sorry for our unbelief
and our lack of thankfulness for the
gift given from You in our holy priests.
Oh my God, please forgive us for not
telling You how grateful we are.
Help us to sing to You our praise and sing
of our thanksgiving for the gift of the priest
and the Mass and help us to unite to the Mass
being offered, praying to the Father with all
our hearts that the people will know Jesus,
the Son of God and worship Him and
love Him. Oh God help us to tell the world
about the Persons of the Trinity so people
will know how God loves them so much.
1 John 4: 9
This is the revelation
of God’s love for us,
that God sent his only Son into the world
that we might have life through him.
June 22, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
Oh God I suffer so and I cry to You
to hear my prayer that people will worship
and love the One True God.
Do
You Truly Want Union With Me?
February 14, 1994 5:00 a.m.
Jesus: Will you be My light to the world? Will you
open up entirely and be only of Me? Will you put aside your selfish desires
and think of Me? I am calling you to union with Me. This takes denial of
self. To be involved in yourself is to be void of God. Selfishness is not
godliness. You must choose between yourself and God.
I am He Who loves you intently. Love gives to the other.
Love does not seek its own way. This is not love. Do you love Me enough to
give yourself entirely to Me or do you want to give some of yourself and
hold on to some of yourself?
I died in complete surrender for you, to the last beat of
My heart. I gave you this much love. Do you love Me? Then you can put aside
what you want. If one thing becomes more important than I, you are violating
the First Commandment. You must be selfless and have Me as your top
priority. Everything in your life has meaning only as it brings you closer
to Me.
What do you need? What do you spend your thoughts on?
Train your will to turn your thoughts to Me. See Me in total surrender,
dying for love of you on the cross.
You want love. What of your brothers? Would they lay down
their lives for you? If they had a choice, would they choose to give you the
last drop of blood and the last beat of their heart?
What do I do now to wake you to My love? My heart is on
fire with love of you but to know Me more you must reach with your soul. The
more you die to yourself, the greater your union with Me. To the last beat
of My heart, I loved you.
Do you truly want union with Me? Then do not hold back any
of yourself. You give yourself in all things that you want so badly.
Surrender those things to Me. When you are attached to anything, a job, a
person, a service, when anything you do becomes more important than Me, you
are attached to it! If you are too busy for anything and do not have time to
be alone with Me, then you are attached to too many things. Union with Me
must come first.
Take up your cross and follow Me. To lay down your cross
is the way of the world. I ask you to constant surrender of your will to the
will of The Father.
I am He Who comes before you. I showed you the way by My
life. I completely surrendered to the will of The Father. I gave My life for
love of you. The Father loved you so much He gave His only Son for love of
you. The Holy Spirit is the love between The Father and the Son. Such love
in God! You, My child, are loved beyond all comprehension.
You wander aimlessly while your soul craves this love. It
can be found in front of the tabernacle. My love is personified there. I am
there, Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity. I am truly present in your midst.
I long to shower you with the love of God. We are three in one. When you
come to Me you are receiving love from God. I, God, am present in the
tabernacle and the Eucharist. You have communion with God in Holy Communion.
What love, to fill your aching heart on Valentine's Day!
Reach with a heart of God. Let Him bathe you in His love.
Come to His altar and worship Him, My child. You are loved beyond all
comprehension and your soul craves this love.
You cannot have all you seek. You will not be satisfied on
this earth. I give you glimpses. I give you little moments, but most are
just spent ardently adoring Me. You do not need to feel Me to know you are
receiving the greatest gift of all, God-made-man dwelling in your midst.
Alleluia.
The way to Me is the Way of the Cross. I give you a cross
to bring you closer to Me. Take up your cross and follow Me. The way to Me
is through the cross you carry today. Do as I want you to do. Accept your
cross and carry it for Me. Did I do any less for you? I loved you to My
death. I call you to this love for Me and your brothers. Love your brothers
with the heart of God. You are Me to this dark world. You are My hands, My
heart. You are Me, dwelling in your being. Die to yourself and follow Me.
End of excerpt from February 14, 1994
1 Corinthians 15: 20-28
In fact, however, Christ
has been raised from the dead, as the first–fruits of all who have
fallen asleep. As it was by one man that death came, so through one man
has come the resurrection of the dead. Just as all die in Adam, so in
Christ all will be brought to life; but all of them in their proper order:
Christ the first–fruits, and next, at his coming, those who belong to
him. After that will come the end, when he will hand over the kingdom to
God the Father, having abolished every principality, every ruling force
and power. For he is to be king until he has made his enemies his
footstool, and the last of the enemies to be done away with is death, for he
has put all things under his feet. But when it is said everything is
subjected, this obviously cannot include the One who subjected everything
to him. When everything has been subjected to him, then the Son himself
will be subjected to the One who has subjected everything to him, so that
God may be all in all.
June 22, 2002 message continues
Mary
speaks: Oh my children,
My Son Jesus has given you His Movement
Shepherds of Christ.
My children read the scripture about
one flock and one shepherd.
John 10: 7-18
So Jesus spoke to them again:
In all truth I tell you,
I am the gate of the sheepfold
All who have come before me
are thieves and bandits,
but the sheep took no notice of them.
I am the gate.
Anyone who enters through me
will be safe:
such a one will go in and out
and will find pasture.
The thief comes
only to steal and kill and destroy.
I have come
so that they may have life
and have it to the full.
I am the good shepherd:
the good shepherd lays down his life
for his sheep.
The hired man,
since he is not the shepherd
and the sheep do not belong to him,
abandons the sheep
as soon as he sees a wolf coming,
and runs away,
and then the wolf attacks
and scatters the sheep;
he runs away
because he is only a hired man
and has no concern for the sheep.
I am the good shepherd;
I know my own
and my own know me,
just as the Father knows me
and I know the Father;
and I lay down my life for my sheep.
And there are other sheep I have
that are not of this fold,
and I must lead these too.
They too will listen to my voice,
and there will be only one flock,
one shepherd.
The Father loves me,
because I lay down my life
in order to take it up again.
No one takes it from me;
I lay it down of my own free will,
and as I have power to lay it down,
so I have power to take it up again;
and this is the command
I have received from my Father.
June 22, 2002 message continues
Mary
speaks: Oh my
children read the words of my
Son before His bitter passion.
John 17
The prayer of Jesus
After saying this, Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and
said:
Father, the hour has come:
glorify your Son
so that your Son may glorify you;
so that, just as you have given him
power over all humanity,
he may give eternal life
to all those you have entrusted to him.
And eternal life is this:
to know you,
the only true God,
and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
I have glorified you on earth
by finishing the work
that you gave me to do.
Now, Father, glorify me
with that glory I had with you
before ever the world existed.
I have revealed your name
to those whom you took from the world
to give me.
They were yours
and you gave them to me,
and they have kept your word.
Now at last they have recognised
that all you have given me
comes from you
for I have given them
the teaching you gave to me,
and they have indeed accepted it
and know for certain
that I came from you,
and have believed
that it was you who sent me.
It is for them that I pray.
I am not praying for the world
but for those you have given me,
because they belong to you.
All I have is yours
and all you have is mine,
and in them I am glorified.
I am no longer in the world,
but they are in the world,
and I am coming to you.
Holy Father,
keep those you have given me
true to your name,
so that they may be one like us.
While I was with them,
I kept those you had given me
true to your name.
I have watched over them
and not one is lost
except one who was destined to be lost,
and this was to fulfil the scriptures.
But now I am coming to you
and I say these things in the world
to share my joy with them to the full.
I passed your word on to them,
and the world hated them,
because they belong to the world
no more than I belong to the world.
I am not asking you
to remove them from the world,
but to protect them from the Evil One.
They do not belong to the world
any more than I belong to the world.
Consecrate them in the truth;
your word is truth.
As you sent me into the world,
I have sent them into the world,
and for their sake I consecrate myself
so that they too
may be consecrated in truth.
I pray not only for these
but also for those
who through their teaching
will come to believe in me.
May they all be one,
just as, Father, you are in me
and I am in you,
so that they also may be in us,
so that the world may believe
it was you who sent me.
I have given them the glory
you gave to me,
that they may be one as we are one.
With me in them and you in me,
may they be so perfected in unity
that the world will recognise
that it was you who sent me
and that you have loved them
as you have loved me.
Father,
I want those you have given me
to be with me where I am,
so that they may always see my glory
which you have given me
because you loved me
before the foundation of the world.
Father, Upright One,
the world has not known you,
but I have known you,
and these have known
that you have sent me.
I have made your name known to them
and will continue to make it known,
so that the love with which you loved me
may be in them,
and so that I may be in them.
June 22, 2002 message continues
Mary
speaks: Oh my children, I am
Mary your Mother,
the prayers given to you in this prayer
manual were given from Jesus to Fr. Carter,
oh my children pray as Jesus has instructed.
You will receive great insight into the
hidden mysteries the more you pray
the rosary and the litanies.
Pray as Jesus told Fr. Carter.
I love you to pray the seven sorrows.
Excerpt from Prayer Manual
Mary has promised very special graces to those who do this on a
daily basis. Included in the promises of Our Lady for those who practice this
devotion is her pledge to give special assistance at the hour of death,
including the sight of her face.
End of excerpt from Prayer Manual
June 22, 2002 message continues
Mary
speaks: Oh my children
when you pray the
Litanies you help make reparation
for the offenses against Our Hearts.
Oh my children, I am blasphemed
in my virginity and in my Immaculate
Conception. I am the Mother of God
and your Mother. I am dishonored by
my children. I am not recognized by many
as their spiritual mother. You honor me so much
when you pray the litany to the Blessed Mother,
I also love you to sing the litany.
My Son Jesus wants you to pray the Litany
to the Sacred Heart and beg for mercy. You
must honor the Father, the Son and
the Holy Spirit.
My children God is so offended by the
way some of my children have treated me. God
is offended by the way He has been treated.
Oh my Son Jesus is the one
promised. Oh my beloved children, I
appear to tell you this. Oh my children
please begin prayer chapters praying
the prayers my Son has given you.
Oh pray to Jesus. Oh pray the prayers.
Say the promises Jesus gave to St. Margaret Mary
and tell Jesus
Oh Jesus, thank you for your promises.
Say "Thank you Jesus" after every promise.
Oh my children, pray for your priests
by saying the prayers Jesus gave to Fr. Carter.
Oh my children, circulate these prayers,
pray for the other members of the Shepherds
of Christ. Pray so there will be vocations to all
7 categories.
Oh my children, my Son Jesus is so pleased
when you pray these prayers He told Fr. Carter
to pray.
Oh my children, pray for the Priestly
Newsletter and the priests receiving the
Priestly Newsletter Book II.
Oh my children, I am so very pleased you
have prayed as my Son Jesus has asked you.
To pray this way helps make reparation to Our
Hearts, to my Immaculate Heart and the Sacred
Heart of my Son Jesus.
Oh my children you need to pray to St. Michael
and your guardians angels.
Oh my children the prayers of consecration to the
Sacred Heart and the prayer of consecration to my
Immaculate Heart were given to Fr. Carter from my
Son Jesus.
Oh my children, I am Mary your Mother
please listen to me.
My Son Jesus gave the consecration prayers so the
priests could consecrate their hearts to my Immaculate
Heart and the Sacred Heart of Jesus. These prayers were
given by Jesus to Fr. Carter. Please circulate these
consecration prayers. They are in many priestly Newsletters.
They should be put on a card with the picture of Jesus,
the Sacred Heart and my picture as the Immaculate Heart
on the Priestly Newsletter Book II cover. This card
should be put in all priestly Newsletter books and given
to priests. The picture should be on one side of the
card and the consecration to the Sacred Heart and the
consecration to my Immaculate Heart for the priests
on the back of the card. Please put these pictures
and prayers for priests here.
Act of Consecration
Lord Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the Flock, I consecrate my
priestly life to Your Heart, pierced on Calvary for love of us. From Your
pierced heart the Church was born, the Church You have called me as a
priest, to serve in a most special way. You reveal Your Heart as symbol of
Your love in all its aspects, including Your most special love for me, whom
you have chosen as Your priest-companion. Help me always to pour out my life
in love of God and neighbor. Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in You!
Dear Blessed Virgin Mary, I consecrate myself to your
maternal and Immaculate Heart, this Heart which is symbol of your life of
love. You are the Mother of my Savior. You are also my Mother. You love me
with the most special love as this unique priest-son. In a return of love I
give myself entirely to your motherly love and protection. You followed
Jesus perfectly. You are His first and perfect disciple. Teach me to imitate
you in the putting on of Christ. Be my motherly intercessor so that, through
your Immaculate Heart, I may be guided to an ever closer union with the
pierced Heart of Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the Flock, Who leads me to the
Father in the Holy Spirit.
End of Act of Consecration
June 22, 2002 message continues
Mary
speaks: Please give
this card to priests. Please put
all information about Shepherds of Christ
at the bottom.
Please circulate my image in Clearwater
extensively, along with this circulate the
little card with the Lady of Clearwater and
the Lady of Guadalupe.
June 22, 2002 message continues
Mary
speaks: I appear in America as Our Lady of
Fatima in the Americas. I want the
faithful to unite to the Mass. They should
unite as they attend Mass and also pray
in the morning offering. They should pray
for the conversion of sinners. I want faithful
Catholics to attend Mass, daily if possible,
and especially pray so deeply at the
Consecration of each Mass, that the people
of this earth will know the love of
Jesus and make Him the King and Center
of their hearts.
I want faithful Catholics praying
for this at Mass. These are the ones
Jesus has asked especially to pray
as "Shepherds of Christ" and to be
deep intercessors praying for the priests,
the Church and the world.
The Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign
in the hearts of the people of this
earth. My Immaculate Heart will
triumph. Your priests must pray
for this. Your priests should be
given the little card with our
pictures and the words on the back.
June 22, 2002 message continues
Mary speaks: Oh
my children, pray as I have
ask for here, at the Mass. Attend Mass
as often as possible, daily
if possible and pray for the
Reign of the Sacred Heart and
Triumph of My Immaculate
Heart.
Oh my children, I appear
our Lady of Fatima in the
Americas in Clearwater,
Florida.
Make this message available
to all, to all who go to your
centers.
Oh my beloved priests pray as
my Son Jesus has instructed.
Oh my children pray at Mass
for the Reign of the Sacred Heart and
Triumph of my Immaculate Heart.
Oh my children, so many of the
souls of this earth do not recognize
my Son Jesus. Oh my children,
my Son Jesus gives you these prayers
to pray.
A Message for the Earth from Jesus
January 22, 1998
Jesus speaks: I am the Good Shepherd, these are My
prayers, the prayers I give to help renew the Church and the world, all prayer
chapters are asked to include these prayers (found in the Shepherds of Christ
Prayer Manual). As My Apostles and Shepherds I ask you to encourage all
existing Chapters to try to encourage all existing prayer groups to pray the
Shepherds of Christ prayers. Encourage all Churches to pray these prayers. It
is most urgent that the people of this earth concur with the Father's wishes
to begin Prayer Chapters. This is an urgent request from the Good Shepherd.
The flock will become one when they have given their hearts to Jesus and Mary.
Encourage all priests to pray the Shepherds of Christ prayers. Your world will
be lighted with great light as the people of this earth pray these prayers.
My promise is this to you My beloved
earth: When you give your heart to Me and spread the devotion to My Sacred
Heart, I will write your name In My Heart. I promise to give the greatest
graces when you pray these prayers for renewal of the Church and the world and
take all who pray them deeply into My Heart. The prayers I give will bring
about the reign of My Sacred Heart and the triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart.
I am Jesus Christ, this is My message of January 22, 1998, Please circulate
this message to your world. I am the Good Shepherd, I know Mine and Mine know
Me and they follow Me. Grace My Shepherds, I will give you the greatest graces
for spreading these words to this earth and to your Church. I love you, I am
Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, it is the Plan of the Father that Prayer
Chapters are begun immediately and the Priestly Newsletter is given to all
priests. The Voice of the Good Shepherd speaks through it.
end of January 22, 1998 message
Shepherds of Christ Associates
PRAYER MANUAL
Chapter Meeting Prayer Format
The prayer format below should be followed at chapter
meetings of Shepherds of Christ Associates. All prayers, not just those
said specifically for priests, should include the intention of praying for all
the needs of priests the world over.
1. Hymns. Hymns may be sung at any point of
the prayer part of the meeting.
2. Holy Spirit Prayer. Come, Holy Spirit,
almighty Sanctifier, God of love, who filled the Virgin Mary with grace, who
wonderfully changed the hearts of the apostles, who endowed all Your martyrs
with miraculous courage, come and sanctify us. Enlighten our minds, strengthen
our wills, purify our consciences, rectify our judgment, set our hearts on
fire, and preserve us from the misfortunes of resisting Your inspirations.
Amen.
3. The Rosary.
4. Salve Regina. "Hail Holy Queen, Mother
of mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To you do we cry, poor
banished children of Eve. To you do we send up our sighs, our mourning, our
weeping in this vale of tears. Turn, then, most gracious advocate, your eyes
of mercy toward us and after this, our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit
of your womb, Jesus, O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary."
5. The Memorare. "Remember, O most gracious
Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection,
implored your help, or sought your intercession was left unaided. Inspired by
this confidence, I fly unto you, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To you I
come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word
Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but, in your mercy, hear and answer me.
Amen."
6. Seven Hail Marys in honor of the Seven Sorrows
of Mary. Mary has promised very special graces to those who do this on a
daily basis. Included in the promises of Our Lady for those who practice this
devotion is her pledge to give special assistance at the hour of death,
including the sight of her face. The seven sorrows are:
(1) The first sorrow: the prophecy of Simeon (Hail Mary).
(2) The second sorrow: the flight into Egypt (Hail Mary).
(3) The third sorrow: the loss of the Child Jesus in the
temple (Hail Mary).
(4) The fourth sorrow: Jesus and Mary meet on the way to
the cross (Hail Mary).
(5) The fifth sorrow: Jesus dies on the cross (Hail Mary).
(6) The sixth sorrow: Jesus is taken down from the cross
and laid in Mary's arms (Hail Mary).
(7) The seventh sorrow: the burial of Jesus (Hail Mary).
7. Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us.
God, the Father of heaven, have mercy on us.
God, the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.
God, the Holy Spirit, have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us.
Holy Mary, pray for us (repeat after each
invocation).
Holy Mother of God,
Holy Virgin of virgins,
Mother of Christ,
Mother of the Church,
Mother of divine grace,
Mother most pure,
Mother most chaste,
Mother inviolate,
Mother undefiled,
Mother most amiable,
Mother most admirable,
Mother of good counsel,
Mother of our Creator,
Mother of our Savior,
Virgin most prudent,
Virgin most venerable,
Virgin most renowned,
Virgin most powerful,
Virgin most merciful,
Virgin most faithful,
Mirror of justice,
Seat of wisdom,
Cause of our joy,
Spiritual vessel,
Vessel of honor,
Singular vessel of devotion,
Mystical rose,
Tower of David,
Tower of ivory,
House of gold,
Ark of the Covenant,
Gate of heaven,
Morning star,
Health of the sick,
Refuge of sinners,
Comforter of the afflicted,
Help of Christians,
Queen of angels,
Queen of patriarchs,
Queen of prophets,
Queen of apostles,
Queen of martyrs,
Queen of confessors,
Queen of virgins,
Queen of all saints,
Queen conceived without original sin,
Queen assumed into heaven,
Queen of the most holy rosary,
Queen of families,
Queen of peace,
Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world, spare
us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world, graciously hear us,
O Lord.
Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Pray for us, O holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the
promises of Christ.
Let us pray: Grant, we beseech You, O Lord God, that we
Your servants may enjoy perpetual health of mind and body and, by the
glorious intercession of the blessed Mary, ever virgin, be delivered from
present sorrow, and obtain eternal joy. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
We fly to your patronage, O holy Mother of God. Despise
not our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always from all
dangers, O glorious and blessed Virgin. Amen.
8. Prayer to St. Joseph. St. Joseph, guardian of
Jesus and chaste spouse of Mary, you passed your life in perfect fulfillment
of duty. You supported the Holy Family of Nazareth with the work of your
hands. Kindly protect those who trustingly turn to you. You know their
aspirations, their hardships, their hopes; and they turn to you because they
know you will understand and protect them. You too have known trial, labor,
and weariness. But, even amid the worries of material life, your soul was
filled with deep peace and sang out in true joy through intimacy with the Son
of God entrusted to you, and with Mary, His tender Mother. Amen. --(Pope
John XXIII)
9. Litany of the Sacred Heart,
promises of the Sacred Heart.
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God the Father of heaven, have mercy on us (repeat after each
invocation).
God the Son, Redeemer of the world,
God the Holy Spirit,
Holy Trinity, one God,
Heart of Jesus, Son of the eternal Father,
Heart of Jesus, formed by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mother,
Heart of Jesus, substantially united to the Word of God,
Heart of Jesus, of infinite majesty,
Heart of Jesus, sacred temple of God,
Heart of Jesus, tabernacle of the Most High,
Heart of Jesus, house of God and gate of heaven,
Heart of Jesus, burning furnace of charity,
Heart of Jesus, abode of justice and love,
Heart of Jesus, full of goodness and love,
Heart of Jesus, abyss of all virtues,
Heart of Jesus, most worthy of all praise,
Heart of Jesus, king and center of all hearts,
Heart of Jesus, in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge,
Heart of Jesus, in whom dwells the fullness of divinity,
Heart of Jesus, in whom the Father is well pleased,
Heart of Jesus, of whose fullness we have all received,
Heart of Jesus, desire of the everlasting hills,
Heart of Jesus, patient and most merciful,
Heart of Jesus, enriching all who invoke You,
Heart of Jesus, fountain of life and holiness,
Heart of Jesus, propitiation for our sins,
Heart of Jesus, loaded down with opprobrium,
Heart of Jesus, bruised for our offenses,
Heart of Jesus, obedient even to death,
Heart of Jesus, pierced with a lance,
Heart of Jesus, source of all consolation,
Heart of Jesus, our life and reconciliation,
Heart of Jesus, victim of sin,
Heart of Jesus, salvation of those who hope in You,
Heart of Jesus, hope of those who die in You,
Heart of Jesus, delight of all the saints,
Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O
Lord.
Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make our hearts like unto Yours.
Let us pray: O almighty and eternal God, look upon the
Heart of Your dearly beloved Son and upon the praise and satisfaction He
offers You in behalf of sinners and, being appeased, grant pardon to those
who seek Your mercy, in the name of the same Jesus Christ, Your Son, Who
lives and reigns with You, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, world without
end. Amen.
Promises of Our Lord to those devoted to His Sacred Heart
(these should be read by the prayer leader):
(1) I will give them all the graces necessary in their
state of life.
(2) I will establish peace in their homes.
(3) I will comfort them in all their afflictions.
(4) I will be their refuge during life and above all in
death.
(5) I will bestow a large blessing on all their
undertakings.
(6) Sinners shall find in My Heart the source and the
infinite ocean of mercy.
(7) Tepid souls shall grow fervent.
(8) Fervent souls shall quickly mount to high perfection.
(9) I will bless every place where a picture of My Heart
shall be set up and honored.
(10) I will give to priests the gift of touching the most
hardened hearts.
(11) Those who promote this devotion shall have their
names written in My Heart, never to be blotted out.
(12) I promise you in the excessive mercy of My Heart that
My all-powerful love will grant to all those who communicate on the first
Friday in nine consecutive months the grace of final penitence; they shall
not die in My disgrace nor without receiving their sacraments; My divine
Heart shall be their safe refuge in this last moment.
10. Prayer for Priests. "Lord Jesus, Chief
Shepherd of the Flock, we pray that in the great love and mercy of Your Sacred
Heart You attend to all the needs of Your priest-shepherds throughout the
world. We ask that You draw back to Your Heart all those priests who have
seriously strayed from Your path, that You rekindle the desire for holiness in
the hearts of those priests who have become lukewarm, and that You continue to
give Your fervent priests the desire for the highest holiness. United with
Your Heart and Mary's Heart, we ask that You take this petition to Your
heavenly Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit. Amen"
11. Prayer for all members of the Shepherds of Christ
Associates. "Dear Jesus, we ask Your special blessings on all
members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. Continue to enlighten
them regarding the very special privilege and responsibility you have given
them as members of Your movement, Shepherds of Christ Associates.
Draw them ever closer to Your Heart and to Your Mother's Heart. Allow them to
more and more realize the great and special love of Your Hearts for each of
them as unique individuals. Give them the grace to respond to Your love and
Mary's love with an increased love of their own. As they dwell in Your Heart
and Mary's Heart, abundantly care for all their needs and those of their loved
ones. We make our prayer through You to the Father, in the Holy Spirit, with
Mary our Mother at our side. Amen"
12. Prayer for the spiritual and financial success of the
priestly newsletter. "Father, we ask Your special blessings upon the
priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ. We ask that You open the
priest-readers to the graces You wish to give them through this chosen
instrument of Your Son. We also ask that You provide for the financial needs
of the newsletter and the Shepherds of Christ Associates. We
make our prayer through Jesus, in the Holy Spirit, with Mary at our side.
Amen"
13. Prayer for all members of the human family.
"Heavenly Father, we ask Your blessings on all Your children the world
over. Attend to all their needs. We ask Your special assistance for all those
marginalized people, all those who are so neglected and forgotten. United with
our Mother Mary, we make this petition to You through Jesus and in the Holy
Spirit."
14. Prayer to St. Michael and our Guardian Angels:
"St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our
safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him,
we humbly pray, and do thou, O prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of
God, cast into hell Satan and all the other evil spirits who prowl about the
world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen."
"Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God's love
commits me here, ever this day be at my side, to light and guard, to rule and
guide. Amen."
15. Pause for silent, personal prayer. This should
last at least five minutes.
16. Act of consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and
the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
"Lord Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock, I consecrate
myself to Your most Sacred Heart. From Your pierced Heart the Church was born,
the Church You have called me, as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates,
to serve in a most special way. You reveal Your Heart as a symbol of Your love
in all its aspects, including Your most special love for me, whom You have
chosen as Your companion in this most important work. Help me to always love
You in return. Help me to give myself entirely to You. Help me always to pour
out my life in love of God and neighbor! Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in
You!
"Dear Blessed Virgin Mary, I consecrate myself to your
maternal and Immaculate Heart, this Heart which is symbol of your life of
love. You are the Mother of my Savior. You are also my Mother. You love me
with a most special love as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates,
a movement created by your Son as a powerful instrument for the renewal of the
Church and the world. In a return of love, I give myself entirely to your
motherly love and protection. You followed Jesus perfectly. You are His first
and perfect disciple. Teach me to imitate you in the putting on of Christ. Be
my motherly intercessor so that, through your Immaculate Heart, I may be
guided to an ever closer union with the pierced Heart of Jesus, Chief Shepherd
of the flock."
17. Daily Prayers. All members should say the Holy
Spirit prayer daily and make the act of consecration daily. They should also
pray the rosary each day. They are encouraged to use the other above prayers
as time allows.
End of Prayer Manual
June 22, 2002 message continues
Mary speaks: Oh my
children, these prayers are
available in other languages,
Spanish, French, Portuguese.
Oh my children, spread the rosary
aves to the children.
Oh my children, teach your children,
Jesus is the Son of God, give them
these rosary meditations.
Oh my children, my Son Jesus
is a Divine Person.
Oh my children, please listen
to me.
November 6, 2000
June 22, 2002 message continues
Mary speaks: Oh my
children, I am Mary your
Mother, I love you so
much. Please listen to me.
Your world has disobeyed God.
God is the way He is.
My children, you must seek
the truth about God.
Do you worship false gods?
Do you have gods of your
own making, when God
has revealed Himself
to you so clearly.
Oh my children - God is.
John 1: 1-18
A: PROLOGUE
In the beginning was the Word:
the Word was with God
and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things came into being,
not one thing came into being
except through him.
What has come into being in him was life,
life that was the light of men;
and light shines in darkness,
and darkness could not overpower it.
A man came, sent by God.
His name was John.
He came as a witness,
to bear witness to the light,
so that everyone might believe
through him.
He was not the light,
he was to bear witness to the light.
The Word was the real light
that gives light to everyone;
he was coming into the world.
He was in the world
that had come into being through him,
and the world did not recognise him.
He came to his own
and his own people did not accept him.
But to those who did accept him
he gave power to become children of God,
to those who believed in his name
who were born not from human stock
or human desire
or human will
but from God himself.
The Word became flesh,
he lived among us,
and we saw his glory,
the glory that he has from the Father
as only Son of the Father,
full of grace and truth.
John witnesses to him. He proclaims:
‘This is the one of whom I said:
He who comes after me
has passed ahead of me
because he existed before me.’
Indeed, from his fullness
we have, all of us, received—
one gift replacing another,
for the Law was given through Moses,
grace and truth have come
through Jesus Christ.
No one has ever seen God;
it is the only Son,
who is close to the Father’s heart,
who has made him known.
June 22, 2002 message continues
Mary speaks:
Oh my children, my Son Jesus is
God.
May 5,
2002
February 5, 2001
June 22, 2002 message continues
Mary
speaks: Oh my
children I appear to tell you
Jesus is the Son of God
and you cannot
offend Him any longer.
Excerpt from Response to God's Love,
by Father Edward Carter, S.J.
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1
The Mystery of Christ and
Christian Existence
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Etymologically, the word mystery basically means that which is secret
or hidden. It was used in a religiously technical sense even before
Christianity. Mystery was used, for example, to designate certain religious
rites of pagan Hellenism, secret rites that were closed to outsiders unless
they had been properly initiated into them. In relation to Egyptian
hermeticism, the word mystery was applied to initiation into secret religious
ideas or doctrines. In
reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate mystery. Radically, God
is completely other and transcendent, hidden from man in his inner life,
unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us briefly look at this inner life of
God.
The Father, in a perfect act of self-expression, in a
perfect act of knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the
immanent expression of God's fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise,
from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in a
perfect act of loving.
At the destined moment in human history, God's
self-expression, the Word, immersed himself into man's world. God's inner
self-expression now had also become God's outer self-expression. Consequently,
the mystery of God becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us
about himself, about his inner life, about his plan of creation and
redemption. He tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell
within us in the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us their
own life through grace. All this he has accomplished and does accomplish
through Christ. St. Paul tells us: "I became a minister of this Church
through the commission God gave me to preach among you his word in its
fullness, that mystery hidden from ages and generations past but now revealed
to his holy ones. God has willed to make known to them the glory beyond price
which this mystery brings to the Gentiles—the mystery of Christ in you, your
hope of glory. This is the Christ we proclaim while we admonish all men and
teach them in the full measure of wisdom, hoping to make every man complete in
Christ" (Col 1:25-28).
End of excerpt from Response to
God's Love
Excerpt from Response to God's Love, p. 98-102,
by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.
Chapter
8
The Christian Encounters Others and the World
...The
following Scripture passage strikingly tells us how much God loves his
creation:
For you love all things that are
and loathe nothing that you have
made;
for what you hated, you would not
have fashioned.
And how could a thing remain, unless
you willed it;
or be preserved, had it not been
called forth by you?
—Wis
11:24-25
God
calls us to share in his love for his creation. The Christian should have a
deeper love for the world than the nonbeliever. All that is good and true and
beautiful, all that we humans reach out for in authentic hope, all the
possibilities for our earthly progress, all the worthwhile and enthusiastic
dreams of the human heart for a better world—yes, the Christian should yearn
more deeply for all this than the nonbeliever. Why? Because the Christian
knows that mankind and this world belong to Christ. The Christian knows that
mankind's pursuit of the true, the good, and the beautiful is ultimately a
pursuit of Christ. The Christian knows that any authentic step forward that
mankind takes marks a deepening of the Christic evolutionary process whereby
mankind and this world are more fully united to the center and crown of the
universe—Christ himself.
Because
the world belongs to Christ, the Christian should feel at home in his or her
secular involvement. Obviously, there is a sinful dimension to the
world—there are murders, rapes, and thievery; there are hatreds, gross
injustices, lies and calumnies, blatant sexual promiscuity, and selfish lust
for power; there is serious neglect of duty, and a hedonistic pursuit of
pleasure. The sinful element of the world, however, should not make us blind
regarding its basic goodness and beauty.
Obviously,
we do not love and embrace the world's sinful dimension. A "holy
sadness" should touch us when we reflect upon the moral depravity that
defiles the world's Christic image. We do not refuse secular involvement,
however, because the world's sinfulness makes life unpleasant at times. We
must often behave in a way that is different from the way much of the world
thinks and acts, yet we must be different in a way that does not make us shirk
our responsibility toward the secular.
The
contribution that the Christian makes toward the Christic development of the
secular city is important in any age. Because of the special times in which we
live, however, the importance of the contemporary Christian's efforts is
heightened. We live in an age of great and numerous and complex problems, but
an age that is also great in many kinds of achievements, an age that is on the
threshold of even greater accomplishments.
We
live in a world of many contradictions. We are currently witnessing material
growth at a rate that past ages would have thought completely impossible.
Modern human beings have given evidence of their control over their material
environment in countless ways. Humans have landed on the moon and will also
land on other planets. Modern science and technology have afforded
contemporary humans numerous comforts, conveniences, and opportunities for
progress in various dimensions of their existence. Despite all this material
progress, however, despite all the great scientific and technological
advances, there are still millions of men, women, and children the world over
who are plagued by hunger, poverty, and disease.
Modern
humans are achieving an ever greater control over life, marvelously increasing
life expectancy, but they are also developing weapons that can quickly destroy
the entire human race.
Moreover,
as a result of recent technological advances, modern humans can have many of
their desires fulfilled. In the depths of the human heart, however, there is
often a restless stirring, a restless desire, a desire that cannot always be
articulated, but of which contemporary men and women are aware.
People
of today live in an age that affords wonderful opportunities for deepening the
bonds of world brotherhood, of world community. International systems of
communication, travel, and commerce are promoting a growing sense of mutual
interdependence among nations. At the same time, however, there are signs of
division—there are wars between nations and internal forces of division
within the same nation, that is, division between the rich and the poor, the
young and the old, and division between the races.
There
is a cry for personal freedom the world over—a cry the likes of which has
never been heard before—and this is good. Often, however, freedom is being
misused, and this abuse of freedom by some has resulted in the violation of
the freedom of others.
There
are many indications of the love of mankind for fellow humans. Our present
times are replete with examples of persons extending themselves in aiding
others. There are, however, numerous examples of how contemporary men and
women have hardened their hearts regarding the needs of their fellow humans.
This
brief glance at modern men and women and their world allows us to quickly view
the complexities of our contemporary society. We see bright rays of brilliant
accomplishments accompanied by unmistakeable signs of serious failure. We see
that there are wonderful possibilities for growth and progress, possibilities
that modern men and women can transform into actual accomplishments. We also
see, however, the very real and stark possibility that all this could end in a
cosmic heap of ashes—if there should occur that deadly combination of the
following: lust for power and domination, hatred, misuse of freedom,
irresponsibility, and disregard for human life and dignity.
This
is the world in which we contemporary Christians live—a world that is an
amazing mixture of that which is good and beautiful and brilliant, and that
which is sinful and ugly and dreadful. We have the privilege and
responsibility of shaping this contemporary world according to its
Christological imprint. Jesus put this image of himself upon the cosmic order
by the way he lived his life among us. We have to aid in directing our fellow
humans and their values along the path that has been made by the footprints of
Jesus of Nazareth—a task that is not always easy. There are so many forces
in today's world that work against Christ, his message, and the order he came
to establish. But are we going to shirk the challenge? Are we going to allow
present possibilities for a further pursuit of the true, the good, and the
beautiful to be thwarted by the forces of evil, diverted along paths that are
not worthy of men and women?
As
we labor with Christ in helping him bring the work of creation and redemption
to completion, we should not become discouraged by the fact that mankind and
the temporal order seem to be less Christian than they were previously. We
should not be disheartened at the signs that Christianity seems increasingly
to be a diaspora religion. We should not become fainthearted in our efforts
for Christ because of the possibility that official Christianity might become
less influential in today's world.
Although
we see these and other signs that seem to portend difficult times for
Christianity, let us not become discouraged. We must realize that there is an
external and obvious manifestation of Christianity in the world, and there is
a hidden or anonymous dimension. Men and women who are not publicly professed
Christians can be coming closer to Christ without actually realizing it. In
fact, the entire temporal order can mature in its Christianization process in
a very quiet and hidden way—so quiet and so hidden that even we Christians
can hardly recognize what is actually happening. There is, then, what can be
called an anonymous Christianity.
There
is only one world order, and it has been established in Christ. Every person
is offered salvation, but this is Christic grace, Christic
salvation. The temporal order of mankind also comes under this Christic
influence. If there is to be the authentic progress of this order, it must be
a progress in Christ. The Christic influence, then, reaches out and touches
every human person, every authentic human value. Regardless of how many
persons realize what is happening in Christ to themselves and to the entire
world order, it is definitely happening. Consequently, our Christ-oriented
efforts for mankind and this world are really effective, even though they are
so hidden and mysterious at times.
We
each contribute to the shaping of a better world according to a variety of
circumstances: the young, for example, contribute their enthusiasm; the
elderly contribute their mellowed wisdom; the conservative contribute their
concern for timeless values; and the progressive contribute their penchant for
change and adaptation to contemporary exigencies. Some work within the
confines of a clean and quiet office; others work amid circumstances charged
with potential explosiveness. Some perform, claiming the attention of the
public eye; others labor in hidden ordinariness. Some must fight the boredom
that routine work tends to generate; others must maintain high-level awareness
amid the dangers of high-risk occupations. Whatever the task and its
circumstances in the secular city might be, however, the imperative is the
same for all of us—namely, to be where God wants us. Only in this way will
our encounter with others and the world truly produce growth for all
concerned.
end
of excerpt from Response to God's Love
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