June 24, 2002 - Nativity of St. John the Baptist
June 25th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 2 Period II. |
The Novena Rosary Mystery
for June 25th is Sorrowful. |
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 24, 2002
Mary speaks: Please come to Florida July 5, 2002.
This is an important anniversary.
There was a vision last month on the
Feast of the Sacred Heart.
TO APOSTLES OF THE SHEPHERDS OF CHRIST
Jesus speaks: My dear
apostles, I ask you to go to daily
Mass and spend your hour before
the tabernacle.
Try to pray the 6:20 prayers daily, if
not at 6:20 do them when you can.
Please stop on the hour and pray, even
if for a few minutes, one minute.
Pray the rosary every day.
Pray to the Father, in My Name, in
the Holy Spirit.
It is so powerful to pray in My Name.
Pray for the Reign of My Sacred Heart
and triumph of Mary's Immaculate
Heart.
Pray in My Name for this.
Many have become very busy.
Apostles must stick to this directed prayer
life.
Write a letter to My Father and review all the
blessings you have received.
Say thanks to God.
Many times people focus on others and think if
others change they will be happy.
Examine your own conscience.
Ask to be given grace to see your own faults
and grow in greater perfection.
Why blame somebody else for your bad mood.
Are you controlled by what others say to you?
If you are, satan can work to "push buttons"
and you can change as the wind.
I am your strength.
Don't give into satan to change your day
by prompting someone to say something
to you that may lead you to
being upset.
Don't give into satan.
I am your rear guard.
I am your fore guard.
And I am with you, always.
I love you so much.
Oh China, Indiana, I thank you for your work.
Rejoice and praise your heavenly Father for the
gifts given to you.
What good does it do anyone, if they try to fix
the world and are unloving?
Messenger:
I had a vision of China.
It was lighted so brightly in the night.
The light was shinning so brightly in the dark
night.
Jesus speaks: Oh China,
you are a light to the darkness—
continue to spread My Good News and
Newsletter.
June 24, 2002 message continues
Jesus speaks: Here is
the gift I gave on the Feast of the Sacred Heart.
My Movement Shepherds of Christ is a light
to the dark world.
Isaiah Chapter 5
The song of the vineyard
Let me sing my beloved
the song of my friend for his vineyard.
My beloved had a vineyard
on a
fertile hillside.
He dug it, cleared it of stones,
and planted it
with red grapes.
In the middle he built a tower,
he hewed a press there too.
He expected it to yield fine grapes:
wild grapes were all it yielded.
And
now, citizens of Jerusalem
and people of Judah,
I ask you to judge between
me
and my vineyard.
What more could I have done
for my vineyard
that I have not done?
Why, when I expected it
to yield fine grapes,
has it
yielded wild ones?
Very well, I shall tell you
what I am going to do to my vineyard:
I shall take away its hedge,
for it to be grazed on,
and knock down its wall,
for it to be trampled on.
I shall let it go to waste, unpruned, undug,
overgrown by brambles
and thorn–bushes,
and I shall command the clouds
to rain no rain on it.
Now, the vineyard of Yahweh Sabaoth
is the
House of Israel,
and the people of Judah
the plant he cherished.
He expected
fair judgement,
but found injustice,
uprightness, but found cries of
distress.
Curses
Woe to those who
add house to house
and join field to field
until there is nowhere left
and
they are the sole inhabitants
of the country.
Yahweh Sabaoth has
sworn this
in my hearing,
‘Many houses will be brought to ruin,
great and
fine ones left untenanted;
for ten acres of vineyard
will yield
only one barrel,
and ten bushel of seed
will yield only one bushel.’
Woe
to those who get up early
to go after strong drink,
and stay up late at
night
inflamed with wine.
Nothing but harp and lyre,
tambourine
and pipe,
and wine for their drinking bouts.
Never a thought for the works
of Yahweh,
never a glance
for what his hands have done.
That is
why my people is in exile,
for want of perception;
her dignitaries starving,
her populace parched with thirst.
That is why Sheol opens wide
its throat
and gapes with measureless jaw
and down go her noblemen and
populace
and her loud revellers merry to the last!
Human nature
has been humbled,
humankind brought low,
and the eyes of the proud
have been
humbled.
Yahweh Sabaoth is the more respected
for his judgement,
God the Holy One
has displayed his holiness by his justice!
Now
the lambs will graze
in their old pastures,
and the fields laid waste by fat
cattle
will feed the kids.
Woe to those who drag guilt along
by
the reins of duplicity,
drag along sin as though with a cart rope;
to
those who say,
‘Why doesn’t he do his work quickly
so that we can see
it;
why doesn’t the Holy One
of Israel’s design
hurry up and come true
so that we can experience it?’
Woe to those who call what is
bad, good,
and what is good, bad,
who substitute darkness for light
and
light for darkness,
who substitute bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.
Woe
to those who think themselves wise
and believe themselves enlightened.
Woe
to those whose might lies
in wine bibbing,
their heroism in mixing strong
drinks,
who acquit the guilty for a bribe
and deny justice to
the upright.
Yes, as the flame devours the stubble,
as the straw
flares up and disappears,
their root will be like decay
and their shoot be
carried off like dust,
for having rejected the law
of Yahweh Sabaoth,
for
having despised the word
of the Holy One of Israel.
Yahweh’s anger
This is why
Yahweh’s anger
has blazed out against his people;
and he has raised his
hand against them
to strike them;
why the mountains have shuddered
and why
corpses are lying like dung
in the streets.
After all this, his anger is not
spent.
No, his hand is still raised!
Yahweh summons the invaders
He hoists a signal for a
distant nation,
he whistles them up
from the ends of the earth;
and see how
swift, how fleet they come!
None of them tired,
none of them
stumbling,
none of them asleep or drowsy,
none of them with belt unfastened,
none of them with broken sandal–strap.
Their arrows are
sharpened,
their bows all strung,
their horses’ hoofs
you would think were
flint
and their wheels, a whirlwind!
Their roar is like that of
a lioness,
like fierce young lions they roar,
growling they seize their prey
and carry it off,
with no one to prevent it,
growling at it,
that day,
like the growling of the sea.
Only look at the country:
darkness
and distress,
and the light turned to darkness
by the clouds.
Isaiah 9: 1-6
The people that walked in darkness
have seen a great light;
on the inhabitants of a country
in shadow dark as death
light has blazed forth.
You have enlarged the nation,
you have increased its joy;
they rejoice before you
as people rejoice at harvest time,
as they exult
when they are dividing the spoils.
For the yoke that weighed on it,
the bar across its shoulders,
the rod of its oppressor,
these you have broken
as on the day of Midian.
For all the footgear
clanking over the ground
and all the clothing rolled in blood,
will be burnt, will be food for the flames.
For a son has been born for us,
a son has been given to us,
and dominion has been laid
on his shoulders;
and this is the name he has been given,
‘Wonder–Counsellor, Mighty–God,
Eternal–Father, Prince–of–Peace’
to extend his dominion
in boundless peace,
over the throne of David
and over his kingdom
to make it secure and sustain it
in fair judgement and integrity.
From this time onwards and for ever,
the jealous love of Yahweh Sabaoth
will do this.
June 24, 2002 message continues
Jesus speaks: My people—pray
for the Reign of My Heart
in all the people of the earth—
pray for the triumph of Mary's
Immaculate Heart in the hearts
of her children.
I love you,
I am Jesus, Son of the Living God,
Savior of the World.
Spread My words I give here.
Spread the Priestly Newsletter far and wide
and begin prayer chapters.
Oh My Church in China, Indiana, as your Church
is painted and prepared, so too, your hearts will
be hearts more pure and loving. Clean out the
debris in your hearts My Shepherds—prepare My way,
My coming in the hearts of men!
I love you Jesus
Ezekiel 34: 11-16
“For the Lord Yahweh
says this: Look, I myself shall take care of my flock and look after it. As
a shepherd looks after his flock when he is with his scattered sheep, so
shall I look after my sheep. I shall rescue them from wherever they have
been scattered on the day of clouds and darkness. I shall bring them back
from the peoples where they are; I shall gather them back from the countries
and bring them back to their own land. I shall pasture them on the mountains
of Israel, in the ravines and in all the inhabited parts of the country. I
shall feed them in good pasturage; the highest mountains of Israel will be
their grazing ground. There they will rest in good grazing grounds; they
will browse in rich pastures on the mountains of Israel. I myself shall
pasture my sheep, I myself shall give them rest–declares the Lord Yahweh.
I shall look for the lost one, bring back the stray, bandage the injured and
make the sick strong. I shall watch over the fat and healthy. I shall be a
true shepherd to them."
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
John 10: 12-16
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.
June 24, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
Pray through the intercession of St. John
the Baptist that the people of this
earth will know and love Jesus and
make Him the King and Center of their
hearts.
Saint Elizabeth was barren.
She conceived St. John the Baptist.
Look at all the good that came from the "once
barren" Elizabeth.
God is All Powerful
God is All Mighty
From a barren land—He can bring forth great fruit.
St. John is the voice of one crying in the
desert, make ready the way of the Lord.
Jesus comes that we will share so deeply in His life.
Oh my heart is consumed with joy for the gifts given
to us in our Catholic Church and in
Jesus, truly present in the Eucharist.
Jesus is the Savior of the world.
Listen to the Song He gives us.
June 24, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
From the little place of China, Indiana,
we have sent out the book of Fr. Carter's.
June 24, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
So much light for our troubled world.
We receive so many letters every day from
priests.
Here is a message from a Bishop that has been
in the Shepherds of Christ for a while.
May 2002
Dear Ones in Christ,
Peace and Health to you all.
I am happy to assure you all that I have
received the precious books that you have so generously
sent to
us. I have distributed to the priests of ____ diocese
free
of charge. I only ask them to thank you all and offer a
Mass
on every First Friday of the month. The only thing we can
return
you.
I pray to the good Lord to love, bless and
reward you all for your awful charity, generosity and
fraternal
solidarity.
I am a retired bishop now. But I still go
around to see my old and new catholics. From 18 to 28 of
April,
I went to ____ and ____ borders to baptize and confirm.
The
four priests baptized about 600 persons while I confirmed
about
450 persons. There are many more ___ pagan villages want
to
become catholics. Please pray for them and for me too.
Thank you.
With prayerful wishes and God bless you
and your wonderful works for the greater glory of God and
salvation of souls.
Yours in our Lord and Lady,
June 12, 2002
Thanks very much for
sending me a copy of Shepherds
of Christ (Spirituality Newsletter) Vol. 2.
I have already read it from cover to cover and
I found it most inspiring.
Please send me Shepherds
of Christ, Vol. 1.
A donation is sent herewith.
God bless you and
your work.
Yours in Jesus and Mary
Father _______
India
June 3, 2002
Dear Rev. Father,
I have received copies of the book Shepherds
of Christ Spirituality 2 Newsletters by Father Edward Carter
S.J. Thank you very much. I have gone through the book. I am happy say
that it is good book to grow in devotion to Jesus, the Good Shepherd. The
scriptural reflections, theological insights and spiritual thoughts given
in the book are much inspiring. The book is a scholarly and devotional
presentation on many subjects like of love of God, Eucharist, consecration
etc. The love and mercy of God are beautifully treated in the book. I
congratulate the editor and publishers of this devotional book.
I have given the copies of the book as
compliments to different seminaries in the diocese so that the coming
generation may read and get inspired of the book.
I wish you all the best in all your
apostolate there. May Jesus bless you abundantly!
Yours in Jesus Christ,
_____________
June 24, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
So much of the world does not believe Jesus
is the Son of God.
Our children can become so confused.
Many Christians don't act like Christ.
Christian children can turn to other faiths.
We must circulate the Blue Books especially
to Africa, Our Lord said.
We don't have any now, please pray
for this.
From China, Indiana has come a light—
the Priestly Newsletter Book II
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Here is a homily Fr. Carter gave about China, Indiana
Father Carter's Talk
February 18, 2000
Well, what should I say to you. It comes to my heart that I should start
off telling you about the Holy Family’s house, the little home they
lived in, in Nazareth which is now situated/surrounded by a Basilica
Church in Loreto, Italy. And I had the privilege of visiting that
shrine. How did their house get there—their little home all the way
from Nazareth to Loreto, Italy? There’re different theories on it. One
which seems very plausible to me is that during one of the crusades,
when the crusaders were in the Holy Land, they had great reason to fear
that the home of the Holy Family, the little house would be destroyed by
the enemies of Christianity. So they dismantled it and brought it back
by ship and then it was reassembled there at Loreto. And there is
scientific proof to back this up, for instance they say that the stone
out of which the Holy Family home/house was built is that which is used
in the Holy Land and it’s not indigenous at all to Italy. So I really
do believe that is the house where Jesus and Mary lived at Nazareth. And
one of the first things that strikes you about it is how tiny it
is—very, very small—one
more indication that Our Lord did not need the trappings of this earth,
wealth and palatial surroundings and so forth to prove to show His
greatness. He was and is great simply because what He is in Himself, who
He is. And we get the same lesson, that’s one of the lessons which
comes out of His birth at Bethlehem; the kings of this earth come into
this world with great palatial showings and all the fanfare which
surrounds the life of royalty and yet the King of kings comes in this
world in the simplest surroundings. Again He teaches us many lessons
from this, one of them certainly is where does true greatness lie. It
doesn’t lie in the things which are outside of you, the things which
surround you, it lies within your very depths.
I think all of you here at China give a great witness to life of Jesus,
Mary and Joseph at Nazareth and to the birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem.
Your life is so simple. It is so hidden and yet like the life of Jesus
at Nazareth, it is meant to be redemptive. His life certainly was
redemptive those first 33 years of His existence. And I think I said in
a homily to you some months ago, that if we had it to plan we certainly
would have arranged, I’m sure all of us, Jesus’ life here on earth
differently. I don’t think in the depths of our heart if we’re
honest with ourselves, if the Father says, “you map out the way you
think Jesus, My Son, should live here below in the time allotted,” who
of us, who of us would have had Him hidden away for 10/11ths
of that mortal life span. We would have given much more time to His
public life. And here Jesus under the Father teaches us a great
lesson—that we share in His redemptive efforts proportionate to the
depth of our love and as that life of love is supported by faith and
hope so Jesus takes the most humble places and He takes the most simple
living people and He uses those simple places and those simple people to
accomplish great things. So glory in your existence here at China, in
its hiddenness and ask for the faith to realize more and more the great
good you are doing for the Movement and the Church and the world.
There are so many lives of the saints which are at witness to this
hidden life of Jesus. And the one that usually comes first to my mind is
that of St. Therese of Lisieux, who lived that very, very very hidden
life in the cloistered convent at Lisieux and only for nine short years.
She entered, as I’m sure you know it, with special dispensation from
the pope. She entered at 15 and died at 24. And the good she
accomplished in those nine years at Carmel, that was already achieved
before she was canonized and people came to know about her great life of
holiness. But during those nine short years at Carmel she was doing so
so so much to help in the salvation of souls. And her life was so
ordinary, so much so in its external framework, so much so that I think
it’s, if I remember correctly, her sisters—the nuns with whom she
lived with in the Carmelite convent there were surprised when the her
cause for beatification was introduced. And why was her life so
great—because she did the simplest things, everything with the great
depth of faith and hope and love, those gifts which the Holy Spirit
showered her with in tremendous depth.
And so your
life here at China is in such great imitation of Jesus, Mary and Joseph
at Nazareth and such great saints as St. Therese of Lisieux, those
saints who lived such a hidden existence. And so first of all I thank
you for persevering in this life. I think I have some more than ordinary
insight into the greatness you are contributing towards the Movement and
the Church and the world. So I thank you very profusely and I also
highly encourage you to persevere in this life and to pray for the grace
to get a deepened insight into just how great your life is here at China
for the cause of Christ.
God’s ways
are not our ways nor His thoughts are not our thoughts. And so contrary
to the way that so much of the world thinks and even many in the Church
it puts such great emphasis on those activities which attract public
attention and acclaim and so forth. We know that God looks first of all
to the depth of love, a love of His will, the depth of loving conformity
to His will—this is how He measures the success of a life. The
external framework of which that life is lived as it were as secondary,
always secondary to the depth of faith, hope and love, a depth of a
loving conformity of one’s will to the Father’s will in Christ,
through Christ in the Spirit with a prayerful assistance of Mary our
Mother. Amen.
So in summary, thank you for persevering in your life here. Secondly,
pray for a deepened insight into the greatness of your life here, what
it means for the Church, the Movement and the world. And thirdly, pray
for a great sense of joy for the vocation, the calling Jesus has given
you, at least at this time of your life, to your life here in China.
Holy
Family of Nazareth pray for us.
Heavenly Father, I ask your most special blessings on your specially
chosen ones here as I have just put before them and requesting them,
suggesting to them to pray for an increased light of their greatness
here and strength to live by that light. So I ask You Heavenly Father
abundantly to give them that grace. Give them great sense of peace and
joy here despite the trials they have to endure as Your Son showed us
suffering, even deep suffering is not contrary to peace in the Lord.
Father, let them know how special they are to You. Bless them most
abundantly now and all the days of their life. Father, I put this
petition before you through your Son Jesus in the Holy Spirit with the
prayerful assistance of Mary our Mother. Amen.
May the Blessing of Almighty God, Father Son and Holy Spirit descend
upon you and remain forever. Amen.
end
of Father Carter's Talk
June 24, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
Once a month we have the Eucharist exposed and
pray for the world for 48 hours.
China is the Eucharistic Center.
Our Lord called it His Eucharistic Center for
the world.
From there has gone the Priestly Newsletter Book II,
much is about the Eucharist. It has gone to so
many priests, and bishops and cardinals.
I ask you to pray for those in China, Indiana.
I ask you to pray for those at all the
Shepherds of Christ Centers, Morrow and
especially Florida.
Please pray for vocations to all 7 categories.
Our main focus is prayer—intercession
for the priests, the Church and the world, but
because of the mailings and the trade show
and the funds we must work "non-stop"
because there are so few of us.|
Please pray for us, pray for grace and financial
help to do things. We work really hard to
do a lot and save money to get the Newsletter
and the Prayer Books out and spread the
pictures and Blue Books and Rosary
Meditations.
If you are an Apostle of the Eucharistic Heart
of Jesus, please be faithful to that
commitment. Begin a prayer chapter
in your church, that will help you
do the prayers in Church, it will help
your parish and help others, this is
a promise of Jesus.
July 31, 1994
Words of Jesus to Members
of Shepherds of Christ Associates:
"My beloved
priest-companion, I intend to use the priestly newsletter, Shepherds
of Christ, and the movement, Shepherds of Christ Associates,
in a powerful way for the renewal of My Church and the world.
"I will use the
newsletter and the chapters of Shepherds of Christ Associates as
a powerful instrument for spreading devotion to My Heart and My Mother's
Heart.
"I am calling
many to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. To all
of them I will give great blessings. I will use them as instruments to
help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My
Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds of
Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart
and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy
Spirit."
- Message from Jesus to Father Edward
J. Carter, S.J., Founder, as given on July 31, 1994,
feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The
Jesuits)
Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of
Jesus
My dear fellow Associate Members,
Jesus is calling special apostles to join a new division
of the Shepherds of Christ Movement. Here is a message from Jesus given to
Father Carter:
My
beloved priest-companion, I am requesting that a new prayer movement be
started under the direction of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I am asking
for volunteers who are willing to pray before the Blessed Sacrament for
one hour, twice-weekly. Members of the Shepherds of Christ prayer
chapters, as well as others, are to be invited to join this movement.
These
apostles are to pray for the intentions I am giving you. For part of the
hour they are to use the prayers of the Shepherds of Christ Associates
Handbook. They may spend the rest of the hour as they so choose.
I will
use this new prayer movement within My Shepherds of Christ Ministries in a
powerful way to help in the renewal of My Church and the world. I will
give great graces to those who join this movement. The name, Apostles of
the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, is to be given to this movement.
I am
inviting My beloved Rita Ring to be coordinator for this activity.
I pour
out the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, Chief Shepherd
of the flock.
This is indeed a special calling for us to unite in one heart with His
Eucharistic Heart and pray for the following intentions:
- 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.
- For the Pope.
- For all bishops of the world.
- For all priests.
- For all sisters and brothers in the religious life.
- For all members of the Shepherds of Christ
Movement, and for the spread of this movement to the world.
- For all members of the Catholic Church.
- For all members of the human family.
- For all souls in purgatory.
End of excerpt from Apostles
of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus
Given on June 23, 2002
Messenger:
All that I do I do for the honor and glory of God.
Purity is the answer.
I love the scripture verse today—
Matthew 10: 27
What I say to you in the dark, tell in the
daylight; what you hear in whispers, proclaim from the housetops.
June 23, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
What is God's will for me?
A person with a disease has limitations.
If God allows them to suffer but they make
everyone else pay for their suffering
it hurts the body of Christ.
We do not know why God may allow a
child of three to get cancer, but a
small child may teach many ailing
adults, lessons about suffering.
A little child may skip and hop and run
so fast and a woman of seventy
may be crippled with arthritis.
Does the old woman look to blame someone
for her discontent or does she accept her
state in life and watch the children
run and play and are happy with
them?
I remember something I heard about someone
looking out a window—what do you
see day after day when you look out the window;
mud or stars?
Some people can create a case against
another to relieve their own misery
inside.
Oh thank God that He loves us and forgives
us for the times we are unloving
and hurt others.
Victims—when you feel bad, do you look
for something to change your mood?
Do you blame others and create chaos
to blame your own misery on.
The bottom line is this, the very hairs of our
head are numbered and God loves us
with an unfathomable love.
Writing a letter to God the Father everyday and
reviewing all the gifts He gave us that
day can change our lives.
What is inside?
Were you always sort of miserable dealing
with others wherever you are and
it was their fault you were never
happy, or so you thought?
Now you can medicate your pain with
fats and colas and sex and
all the mood altering things, but
when your health gives out and you have
to go back to the pain inside are you
going to face it and offer it up and
ask God to help you to live for the honor
and glory of God or are you going to
blame someone for your misery inside
and strike out at others trying to
prove your point?
I like the scripture verse about
what you do in the dark will be
brought to the light. Some people
talk about others proving their
case and not realizing how they
are hurting God's plan and doing the
work of the evil one.
Love is tough many times.
Love seeks the will of God.
Many times people do things just for
themselves that blocks a big thing
that others may accomplish.
I pray that we receive the grace to see
that we must be accountable for
our actions to others.
The truth is that no other thing or human
person can ever truly make us happy
inside.
We all have our problems from the past,
but we all have to work on our
relationships of growing to be more
perfected as God wants us to. To
blame somebody else unjustly, to
vent frustrations of not feeling good
can lead to a chain reaction that effects
a lot of people.
God has given us great gifts and we are
going to be held accountable for the
gifts He has given to us.
Do you remember the story, the
man had a bad day and he comes home
and hollers at the wife and she
hollers at the children and they
kick the dog.
God has given us great gifts. He
expects us to act in love. I pray to
God that those who give into the devil
and hurt others recognize that they can block
a lot of work that can affect the world because
this is a big plan Jesus has given to us and it
effects billions of souls.
Jesus is the one we are working for, not
a particular person. I don't want to stand
before God and tell Him I blocked work
He wanted accomplished, like the
Priestly Newsletter Book II because
I gave up coke one day or didn't feel good, so
I blamed it on somebody else which ended
up blocking work God wanted accomplished.
I write as a messenger of God.
The main focus in China, Indiana per a
message from Jesus today, is to circulate the
Priestly Newsletter as He so directs. This is
the main focus of our Movement. Others praying
should support this.
The prayer life, the way of life is not to be
sacrificed.
I want to write you a message to tell
you of the billions of souls who have been
affected because of the sacrifices of those
in China, Indiana I want to request special prayers
because the devil is very angry at us.
I want to say a great part of the world
does not believe Jesus is the Son of God.
I ask you as a messenger from God to pray for
yourself that you thank God for the gifts
He has given to you and pray to be faithful
to this call He has given and pray to do His will.
I will write again about myself. I
quit teaching math at the end of 1993. If I
hadn't God's Blue Books would not have
been written. I had to dedicate my life to this
mission. I am not asking anyone to quit their job
I am asking them to do God's will for them.
I ask you to be faithful to the calling God
has given you. I ask you to offer up your
hard trials and not try to find vengeance
on someone else. I ask you to focus on
this writing by Fr. Carter.
The bottom line is—are we "dumping
on others"? We must deal with our own
bad moods.
Excerpt from
Response in Christ
by
Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J., p.173-174
ELEVEN Other
Christian Virtues
3. Temperance
If fortitude allows us to relate
properly to the difficult, the virtue of temperance permits us to regulate
properly the pleasurable in our lives. Temperance moderates and controls
the tendency we have toward sense-pleasure. In giving us this virtue, God
has actually provided for our greater enjoyment of sense-pleasure. For
moderation increases our capacity to enjoy. The temperate person can enjoy
a glass of beer more than a drunkard. He uses drink as a rational being is
supposed to, and he accordingly receives the enjoyment which God has
attached to the proper use of things.
Since our two strongest
inclinations in this matter of sense-pleasure are toward food and drink
and the use of our sexual powers, temperance is especially concerned with
these areas. Human experience emphasizes the great necessity of this
virtue. God has attached great pleasure to the functions of taste and sex
precisely because the preservation of the human race depends on them.
Because of the type of pleasure connected with taste and sex, a lack of
control here can lead to grave excesses and create great obstacles to the
Christian life. As regards excesses involving the palate, the obvious one
is the misuse of alcoholic beverages. In numerous cases the abuse of
strong drink is due to the disease of alcoholism. It is not to our purpose
to discuss this problem here. There already exist many fine treatments of
this question which the interested reader can consult.
Temperance or control
of one's sexual faculties is, we know, called chastity. All are called to
their form of chastity – the non-married laity, the married, the priest
and the religious. It is a question of using or not using sex according to
God's will. But as contemporary thought on chastity in the various states of
life emphasizes, this virtue should always be seen in terms of love.
Whatever one's vocation, the practice of his particular kind of chastity is
meant to enable him to love ever more authentically God and man. When the
Christian practices chastity according to his state in life, he is meant to
give testimony to this fact. The truly chaste person is one who is trying to
love properly.
There are various
other types of sense-pleasure besides those involving taste and sexual
enjoyment. God has provided for our recreation and relaxation in so many
ways, and often the senses are involved. God wants us to have our proper
share of this type of enjoyment, and the exercise of the virtue of
temperance insures that we pursue our enjoyment according to His will. Let
us allow ourselves needed pleasure and recreation. On the other hand, we who
live in an affluent society have to be aware that our culture is peculiarly
open to excess in this matter of sense-pleasure. If we do not avoid this
excess, we not only harm ourselves, but in various ways we lessen our
capacity to serve others. For instance, there are some Christians who waste
precious time in the pursuit of excessive pleasure. If they devoted this
time in some form of service to their fellowman, would not this be a
different world? When we
seriously consider the matter, is it not really tragic that a Christian can
waste so much time in frivolous and useless activity while so many crucial
needs of man go unattended?
4. Justice
The virtue of justice disposes us to
render to others what is their due. One obvious application of justice
concerns our respecting the ownership rights of others in regard to their
material goods. Justice also forbids us to inflict physical harm on others
without sufficient reason. An example of this type of justifying reason
would be the case of legitimate self-defense. Justice also bids us to
honor the good name of others by avoiding sins of slander and calumny.
Many seemingly do not realize the damage they can do through talk of this
kind.
End of
excerpt from Response in Christ
June 23, 2002 message continues
Messenger:
Many people have anger from the past.
Some have failed in most of their intimate
relationships. That means that there
is a lot of work to do on ourselves.
We always must strive to be more perfect.
We work to become more pure. Jesus wants
this. We cannot blame our problems for pain
inside of us with past anger and hurts on others
around us. Some people have very much pain inside.
Jesus doesn't want us to blame our problems inside
on others.
In Alanon and AA so many people find successful
recovery from the disease of alcoholism which has
effected them adversely by living by the 12 steps.
They don't blame others for their bad moods.
They don't drink alcohol to heal the pain.
They make an inventory of themselves and tell others
they are sorry for hurting them when it should
be done and they won't hurt others any further.
They admit their mistakes and try to rely on God.
They live to do God's will. We should not want to have
any scapegoats. Please keep this and read it.
Write a letter to God the Father.
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