Reference: Revelation 21: 1-8

Jesus: My beloved ones, I am asking you to open your heart to let Me come into your heart. I want intimacy with you. Many in the world today close their heart, they think that I am a God that is far off, they are not open to have a personal relationship with God. The relationship that I want with each soul is a spousal relationship, a relationship that is most intimate, where I am one in them and they are one in Me. But look at the world today. Many deny that I exist. The relationship that some have with Me is a far off relationship. Many of My Priests do not love Me, with this intimacy I want. They do not have a personal relationship with Me and what I want with them is the most intimate relationship. They celebrate the Mass, it is I that is celebrating the Mass in them. I want a deep mystical union with them. I want to live in oneness in My priests. I want the people to live deeply united as members of My mystical body. This will be the love of the new era. The people of this day do not understand the meaning of love and the most intimate love that God wishes to have with them. You are the teachers of My love. I am giving to you the abundant grace that you will be ever closer to Me. That you will be the teacher to carry out this message of My intimate love to the world. There will be a new earth in which men will be so intimate in their love relationship to Me. I have given this gift to you, but you must open your heart.

Sing song: I Will be With You, that is My Promise

R. The mystery that we wish to meditate on is the Resurrection. We go deeply into the Heart of Christ by giving our heart to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. We are sinners and we cannot go deeply into the Heart of Christ, because He is so pure, but when we give our heart to Mary, we can go deeply into His Heart, through Mary’s pure heart, and the deeper that we go into His Heart the more intimately we know Him and we love Him, and so as we go deeper and deeper into the deepest chamber of His Heart, it is as if He lifts the veil and we know God, more and more. We know God with such depth that many times we cry, because He is revealing His love about His wanting union with us, the Divine God takes us to the deepest chamber of His Heart. This is what happens many times in the Eucharist. We give ourselves to Him and He gives Himself to us, and because we have Consecrated our heart to Mary we go to His Heart through her pure heart and we go deeply into His Heart, and it is there He reveals secrets about Himself, insights into the mystery of His love, where the blind do not see and do not comprehend. It only comes with a great grace when He gives it, and He has promised to give this great grace when we pray these prayers given to Fr. Carter for the Church and the world. This is our mission in the Shepherds of Christ Movement. Do you know how your relationship with God has increased in greater intimacy, since you began to pray the Shepherds of Christ prayers? This was in one of the beginning messages that Jesus promised Fr. Carter, that we would be immensely united with deep intimacy to His Heart and to His Mother’s heart, by being members of the Shepherds of Christ Movement and by praying these prayers. I have watched the people in our core chapter change, they are so close to Christ, they love Him so much and I attribute this to the great grace that God has promised He would give when we lived as He directs us as members of the Shepherds of Christ Movement and pray these prayers, especially the Consecration prayers.

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)

The Resurrection

Song: I Am the Bread of Life

R. And He gives to us Himself in the Holy Eucharist. The Almighty God remains with us this day and He gives Himself to us in the deepest intimacy.

1. Song: I Am the Bread of Life

R. And so we go to Him and surrender to Him, and no matter where we are or how we are feeling we can be changed because God gives Himself to us and we are saturated with an abundant sharing in His Divine Life. In baptism we were given a sharing in His life. Our knowing and loving capacity is elevated. Jesus loves in us and we know Him more when we surrender ourselves to Him in love, to do His will, to serve and love Him, to ask for Him to come to us. It is different than when we are out in the world, we know that when we receive Him in the Eucharist, when we are there in the Mass with Him, that there is such a heightening to our loving capacity. It is because at the reception of the Eucharist we become so one in God Himself that He raises our loving capacity to a great height and we experience His loving capacity in a little way. It is then many times that He shares with us knowledge of Himself most intimately, not in words sometimes, but just in knowing God, as a husband knows a wife most intimately, in this great act of intimacy where God gives Himself to us in the Holy Eucharist. We share most intimately with Him and we know Him in our heart in this intimate union. God is not a God that is far off, He is alive and He is with us and He gives us this great gift in the Holy Eucharist and He outpours His grace as the fountain of life and we are saturated with His Life.

2. R. We see Him all through the Sorrowful Mysteries of the rosary and He looks all beaten up and bloodied. We see Him hanging on the cross, we see Him scourged at the pillar, we see Him suffering. Jesus won for us the grace of salvation. He looks all messed up, beaten, covered with blood. Jesus lived, died and rose for us. Jesus is our Savior. This is how it is in the suffering that we go through, we feel many times that we are all beaten up, sometimes in the Mass, it is a great suffering to try to stay one with Him and I want it so bad, but He does not give me a grace that makes me feel good all the time. I can get grace when I am suffering, when I am longing He lets me struggle and He feels far off and I want to be so close to Him, and He says He gives great grace whether I feel it or not. Many times He allows us to suffer and suffer and suffer, it is like Him at the pillar. He suffered for our sins. You cannot tell by looking at Him all covered with wounds and blood at the pillar, but great graces were merited for us through His suffering and we can receive great grace when we suffer.

3. R. Jesus is the Teacher and we are the pupils and God has taught us in this Movement about Himself in these revelations in these rosaries. Jesus has taught us the most intimate secrets of His Heart. He has taught us about union with Him. Jesus really has taught us and I know the truth in the Scriptures, when I go to Church and I listen to the Scriptures in the Mass. I learn from Jesus, when I hear the Word. In this oneness with Him, it is as if in this oneness, I am experiencing these Scriptures in this great knowing capacity, being one in Him and my whole body just cries because I love the Word so much, but it goes back to this again, in the Mass and in the Eucharist we become so one in Him, this is the purpose of the Mass to be united. We are deeply united to Him in the Consecration prayers, the Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. We beg in that Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to give us abundant grace, that this will be one of the greatest sharing in grace that we have ever experienced in the Mass. Every time I pray that prayer and others have told me this, I receive great graces from Him in that Mass. I feel immensely close to Him. He gave me a message this week to circulate the Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in all of the Churches. It has the Imprimatur on it. It is a most powerful prayer. We give our heart to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, we ask to help make reparation for our sins against God. We help make reparation to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

We give our heart to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, we ask to help make reparation for our sins against God. We help make reparation to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. We give ourselves so much to Him in that prayer and we ask to be able to love Him with the greatest love, we ask for that grace in the Mass. The Mass is the greatest love affair that there is in all of the world. It is the love affair between God and man, where He gives Himself to us and we give ourselves to Him. It is the most intimate act of God giving Himself to His creatures.

4. Jesus: And so I ask you in this rosary to help to circulate the prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to all of the Churches. To circulate the Prayer for Union with Jesus, that people will become one in My Heart, as they give themselves to Me in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. This is a most powerful prayer that I give to you.

 

Prayer for Union with Jesus

Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.

    I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.

    I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.

    When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.

-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994

 

R. Someone here said to me, that it would be so wonderful if we could get the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass prayer on the back of the Missalettes. It has so much in it that Jesus wants us to say to Him in the Mass: That giving of ourselves, that asking for grace to be able to love Him more, in helping to make reparation to His Heart and Mary’s Heart, giving ourselves in Consecration to Him and to Mary. It is a most powerful prayer that He wishes that we would circulate.

5. R. And so I read this Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, for this rosary is about life and a most abundant flow of life (His grace) is poured forth from the altar and from the hands of Consecrated Priest to the faithful at Mass. When the Priest gives his heart to Jesus and Mary, and the people give their heart to Jesus and Mary, and there is this oneness in the Mass from holy Priests, offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass great grace is outpoured. Abundant grace is outpoured. We share in His Divine Life. God feeds us. God feeds the life we received in baptism in the Mass when we go to the Eucharist. Jesus came forth from the tomb on the third day that we could share most abundantly in His life in the Mass – He outpours His grace to us. 

A Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

    Let me be a holy sacrifice and unite with God in the sacrament of His greatest love.

    I want to be one in Him in this act of love, where He gives Himself to me and I give myself as a sacrifice to Him. Let me be a holy sacrifice as I become one with Him in this my act of greatest love to Him.

    Let me unite with Him more, that I may more deeply love Him. May I help make reparation to His adorable Heart and the heart of His Mother, Mary. [R. This is a message of Fatima, that we must make reparation to her heart and to Jesus’ Heart.] With greatest love, I offer myself to You and pray that You will accept my sacrifice of greatest love. I give myself to You and unite in Your gift of Yourself to me. Come and possess my soul.

    Cleanse me, strengthen me, heal me. Dear Holy Spirit act in the heart of Mary to make me more and more like Jesus.

    Father, I offer this my sacrifice, myself united to Jesus in the Holy Spirit to You. Help me to love God more deeply in this act of my greatest love.

    Give me the grace to grow in my knowledge, love and service of You and for this to be my greatest participation in the Mass. Give me the greatest graces to love You so deeply in this Mass, You who are so worthy of my love. - Mass Book, December 27, 1995
 

6. R. The grace is outpoured in the Mass when we unite to the Mass, when our hearts are one with Him. This is what we must strive for, by praying the Morning Offering, that we are uniting in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass being offered throughout the world, that when we go to the Mass, that we participate as fully as possible in the Mass. We need this prayer power in the Shepherds of Christ Movement. Do you realize the mission that He has called us to? Majorly what we do here will affect the renewal of the Church and the world. It will make the difference as to how the Priests are celebrating the Mass. How can we do this, we are not the ones that will do it. It is only through His grace, the Mass is the richest outpouring of His grace, we must be there and utilize as much grace as possible.

7. R. Grace is His life in us. We meditate on the Mystery of the Resurrection. He rose to give us a sharing in His life. Be so one in the Mass. The Mass is the sacrifice of Calvary, sacramentally made present. Be so one in everything you do united to the Mass.

8. R. It is oneness in Him and living in Him.

Song: We Have Been Told

R. And He says

    I have loved you just as the Father has loved me.  John 15:9

R. The love that He gives to us is His Divine Love, so much so that He gave Himself as a sacrifice on Calvary, that He mounted the cross, He stretched His arms, He shed His Most Precious Blood, He gave His life that we would share in His Life. And so in the Mass we share abundantly in His Life. It is important that we pray this prayer before the Mass. That we think of giving our hearts to Jesus and Mary in Consecration before the Mass, for it is in this oneness that we will more fully partake of His Divine Life being outpoured from the fountain of life through His pierced Heart in the Mass.

9.

10. Morning Offering

My dear Father, I offer you this day all my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings in union with Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world, in the Holy Spirit.

I unite with our Mother, Mary, all the angels and saints, and all the souls in purgatory to pray to the Father for myself, for each member of my family, for my friends, for all people throughout the world, for all the souls in purgatory, and for all other intentions of the Sacred Heart.

I love You, Jesus, and I give You my heart. I love you, Mary, and I give you my heart. Amen.

Glory Be

 

The Ascension

R. We have tried and tried to get the Mass Book out and it has been so difficult. It was lost several times on the computer. No matter how hard we try there are many road blocks in our way. We are not professional printers, we are not people who put out tapes and had professional training. We are all coming and He is giving us the grace to do what we have done. We are majorly, majorly changing the lives of many, many people through the Shepherds of Christ Movement, because He is applying His Might and giving grace to all of those things that we are doing. On July 1st, I received this message and it is strong. These are how the messages are, I get so many messages. This notebook I started July 1st and it’s full. That’s how many messages I got.

 

Jesus: I requested the mailing be sent this day. China is important to the Movement. I state this, I allow you to suffer for your disobedience to the messages. Your whole Movement is suffering. I want the Mass Book published.

R. Then He goes on and tells us we need to publish the Children’s Rosary Book, because it will draw the children into the Hearts of Jesus and Mary in the schools and that should have the Imprimatur on it.

Jesus: People who could be helping are being distracted by satan. There are only so many hours in the day.

R. He says we are spending too much time talking on the phone.

Jesus: You must organize your thoughts.

R. Jesus is talking to me and Jesus says talk to groups.

1. Jesus: I give to each person the Blue Book messages. They spend too much time discussing things with others and do not turn to Me. I want a rigorous prayer life for all apostles. The time is nigh, I am going to rock you off your rockers. When I am ignored I shake the earth and you do not even understand.

R. This was July 1st and then there was those 12 tornadoes. The next morning I sent this over to Ellen to type it and she turns on the news and there was a volcano that erupted in Mexico City, which they don’t even put on the news. There were 60 some million people that were confined to their homes in Mexico City because of the ash that had fallen from this. This was the day after that. The day before that I knew something was going to happen. I suffered and suffered and I said to Fr. Carter something is going to happen. The day they threw the acid on our Lady I was suffering and suffering, and I said that it feels like bombs are going to go off. That’s exactly what happened that night, they threw that acid on the Blessed Mother’s image, so it’s like we really are being effected by what is going on in the world.

Jesus: You are bolted to the earth, I have allowed the Cincinnati area to be flooded because of the lack of response by the Church and the faithful to respond to My attempts to reach you. I am angered at the lack of respect and indifference given to the Eucharist. I am angered that the Churches are closed.

I will bless the place where My Eucharistic presence is adored and honored. You must pray hourly for the Eucharistic presence at the Morrow  Center. This is the power. It will be called the Blessed Sacrament Chapel. I want you to focus on what I am telling you to do. Some priests are not living and loving as I intend them to be. They are teaching the people, some of the priests, it is okay to bend the rules and disobey the Pope. They are allowing the people to use artificial birth control by taking a weak stand on the rules given. They are disobedient in so many cases. They must focus on God and obey authority over them. The most important reason a Priest enters the religious life is to become a special spouse of Mine. To answer My calling to be My special anointed Priest. Where is the prayer? Their lives must be centered in prayer. The Priests have turned to many duties. Many Priests are too busy to pray. Many religious do not affectionately pray to Me ever. They celebrate the Mass with cold clammy hearts, they hear confession, they walk with authority and wear their title of Father and do not have love in their hearts. I am love. How can a Priest be Christ-like when he is unloving, when he acts like a machine, a business man? Someone who is hard and collected and not loving.

2. R. Jesus gave us a rosary on September 10th and because Jesus is using the Movement to help renew the Church and the world, He is pointing out those things in the Church and in the religious life that are not to His liking. But we are in no way ever to criticize the priests or to talk about this to others. So, by reading this message that Jesus has written is not an opening for us to go and to start criticizing our priests. It is a message from Jesus that I gave to Fr. Carter and it is a message that I read to you because He told me to do so. That you know that it is most urgent that we do all that we are doing in this Movement to help our Church to be as Christ wants it to be.

3. Jesus: The first rule in a Priest’s life is identification with Christ. I give you Myself in the Eucharist, Myself, I am so offended, so offended by so many of My prideful Priests.

R. In no way are you to repeat this to anyone. This is just to point out the problem. But we are to be most respectful and loving of our beloved chosen ones of Christ. For He has chosen them to this holy ministry and it is up to us to pray fervently for them.

Jesus: The gift I give them, Myself. The power to change bread and wine into My Body and Blood and to forgive sins, and they are more focused on the Sunday bulletins and the festival. Oh, oh, you blind men of the earth. It is a time when I have been greatly offended by men. I write to be heard. Only in coming through My Mother’s Immaculate Heart will the Priest change to hearts of love. Some are prideful, they act as if there is no authority over them. I want them to walk humbly and lovingly to give of themselves, to come to Me, their Divine Lover, and many hate Me. They touch the consecrated host with cold hands and think about the people’s desire and opinions. I give you the Commandments.

I am speaking in the Church through the Pope. I am giving to you the Word of God. The Word is not obeyed and lived as it should be. Many are not living the Word of God. How will the people follow the shepherd? Many shepherds in the Churches have their own plans. They are very worldly. They are active in the plans in running the parish and inactive in their prayer life. You will majorly help bring about the renewal of the Church in the world. Pray these prayers I give for the priests, the Church and the world.

 

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Points Jesus gave for priests

A. The Priests must be centered in Christ. This comes through the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

B. The Priests must set time aside every day to be alone with Christ. Preferably before the tabernacle. It is there that the love of His Sacred Heart penetrates the weary soul. Nothing is more important to a Priest’s life then time alone with Jesus after Communion and before the tabernacle. (One hour a day, at least)

C. The Priests must pray his office every day and take this with the most seriousness.

D. The Priests must meditate on the Scriptures for the daily Mass. They should be read slowly and they should ask the Holy Spirit to enlighten them.

E. Before every Mass they should make an Act of Consecration before the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I am recommending you to circulate the Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and tell all to circulate this prayer in parishes. Have prayer cards of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass printed and the Sacred Heart of Jesus with the Prayer for Union.

F. The words of Jesus and the love of Jesus must be the words on the lips of the priests. The priest is the one chosen to feed the people, to be another Christ to the people. The priest is to be a most holy, holy man, Christ-like in all his dealings.

When the emphasis on the Priest’s life is the social activities in the Church, the parish life is cold and not more than a glorified social hall. The center must be the Eucharist, the center must be Jesus. The focus must be in bringing Jesus’ love to all. Spread the consecration to Jesus and Mary. Until the messages of My love are circulated in the Church the bloodshed will continue. I allowed you to suffer pains on June 25th thru June 28th, because I want you to study the message of June 26, 1995. I have allowed you to suffer the great suffering on June 30th the last day of My month of the Sacred Heart. I want the Mass Book published. You are all suffering, because you have disobeyed these messages. The Father is displeased with the delays of the Mass Book. I am asking you to submit the Children’s Rosary Book for the Imprimatur. The Church life is not what I intend. Priests must consecrate their hearts to My Heart and Mary’s Heart. You must continue to operate despite all the opposition. It is not the individual Priests, it is the devil working in the Church in an attempt to bring it down through secularism. The focus in the Church by many of it’s religious, is not Christ. They have not given their hearts in Consecration. They have not obeyed God. They do not live the Scriptures or follow the Commandments. I will shake you. You will suffer for the catastrophe in Mexico City. I will allow you to suffer intently when a catastrophe will hit the earth. You are given the gift of prophecy. Straighten up in your seats and read these messages. You are bolted to the earth. I am God. When I am ignored, I give a sign. Many of the signs are being ignored as happenings. I am displeased with the devotion to the Eucharist in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, where God flooded the area with astonishing gifts. Your Center is a beacon light to the world. Where ever there is a Center for the Shepherds of Christ there must be hourly prayer, and prayers at 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 and 12:00. The people at the Centers must have candle rosaries and live the Apostles Manual and the Blue Book messages. You are fighting a willful world. The world will not be as it once was, it will be as the Father intended. I am displeased with the progress of the three books.

4. R. He wants the three books out. He is requesting the materials on the 13th. We are the apostles that He is sending into the world, to help to carry out the messages of His love. What we do here, in the Shepherds of Christ Movement and the prayers that we pray will make the difference, majorly to the renewal of the Church and the world. Jesus is writing the Priestly Newsletter, through Fr. Carter, Jesus is writing the messages that He wants to get to the Priests. The Priestly Newsletter Book has the Imprimatur. It is so important to us that we circulate the Priestly Newsletter, and the Priestly Newsletter Book and that we pray these prayers.

On Ascension Thursday several years ago after immense suffering, I heard Him call out, “I am alive, I am alive, I am alive”. Jesus is alive and is treated as a God that is far off. Jesus wants a personal relationship, but more than that an intimate relationship, a spousal relationship with each one of us here. And an immense intimate relationship with His holy religious, the ones that Jesus has chosen to spread His love to this world. We must pray with all of our hearts and not give in to all of the obstacles that are surrounding us. For what we do will make the difference. For the power is in Him and the power is in the prayers.

Do we want a different world? Do we want this new earth He talks about, in which the Sacred Heart of Jesus will be the King and center of all hearts? This movement is Jesus’ instrument to help bring this about. The revelation in God’s lue Book are given to draw men most intimately to His Heart, through devotion to the Eucharist, through time spent before the tabernacle and after Communion, when He outpours His Divine Life in such abundant fashion. We cannot even imagine the immense amount of grace God gives to man in the Eucharist. We are saturated with His Divine Life. It is the great gift and He says I am the Bread of Life.

The Apostles were pressed on and we saw how Peter acted. He denied Christ. When the people came, he was worried about what the people were thinking. How many times do we not speak out because we are worrying what someone else is thinking. We must get our messages from Him, we must get our thoughts from Him, we must see the world as it is. In suffering and in pain and in need of renewal, and He is giving to us this great gift to help bring about this renewal. We must not be afraid, we must pray for the grace to do whatever it is, to go forth as His apostle, to help spread the prayer chapters and the Priestly Newsletter and the messages in the Blue Books that talk about His Divine presence in the Eucharist.

How could they see Him go up into the sky, right before their eyes, how could they see this and still be so afraid that they confined themselves to the Upper Room.

5. R. The world is not like what God wants, we are not like the world. The more we become one in Him, the more that we deviate from the way that people are acting this day, the deeper we go into His Heart, the more we must stick together with one another, because we need that understanding with each other. The people out there do not think like we do. We know the truth is in the Scriptures, we know the truth is in the Mass, we know what the Ten Commandments are and they are not being obeyed. This Movement is very, very important to the renewal of the Church and the world, and we are being pressed on immensely by satan who wants us stopped.

Simon Peter answered, ‘Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the message of eternal life, John 6:68

6. Song: We Have Been Told

7. R. Jesus ascended into heaven but He left behind the Apostles to carry out the work the He had begun. He sends us forth, the apostles of this new era to carry out the completion of this mission that He began. For there will be a new earth, there will be as it says in the Our Father, ‘Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.’ Thy Kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. He will be King and center of all hearts. We know that He is King and center of our hearts now. There will be a new earth. Mary promised this at Fatima. We pray for it every time we pray the Our Father.

8. R. It is all in the grace. The blind do not see and the deaf do not hear. The more we give ourselves to the Heart of Mary, the more the Holy Spirit works within her heart and we see the light and we know the truth. We must do as Mary said at Fatima and give ourselves to her heart in order to know God more fully. Mary is the new Eve, Mary brings us deeply into the Heart of Christ where we know God and we unite most intimately with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

9. R. Mary is the gateway to the Heart of Christ. It is in the Heart of Christ, Jesus is the Mediator between God and man that we unite in the deepest intimacy in this deep perfect love relationship between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Our whole life is spent in this attraction as steel is drawn to a magnet. We are drawn to this perfect love relationship which exists in the Holy Trinity to be one in Him. So the devil tempts with all these little pleasures to try to lure us away, but nothing satisfies, it is only that one attraction to be one in Him.

10. Hail Mary

Glory Be

 

The Descent of the Holy Spirit

Acts 2: 1-9

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

Now there were devout men living in Jerusalem from every nation under heaven, and at this sound they all assembled, and each one was bewildered to hear these men speaking his own language. They were amazed and astonished. ‘Surely,’ they said, ‘all these men speaking are Galileans? How does it happen that each of us hears them in his own native language?

1. R. The more we read the Acts of the Apostles, the more we see that our life is really unfolding so close to how their lives unfolded in these Acts of the Apostles.

2. Hail Mary

3. R. In many cases many men have strayed away from the truth, that is why they do not obey the Commandments. This is what Jesus is saying that the blind do not see and the deaf do not hear.

4. R. And so on Tuesday, we are praying especially for healing and that the Holy Spirit does come down and descend upon us, that we are as the fearless Apostles to go forth to spread His message to the world and you too can join with us, especially on Tuesdays, to ask the Holy Spirit to come to us in a special way and to fill us with the fearlessness that we need in order to go out and to carry this message to the world, despite all the opposition and what is going on to have that conviction, which only comes from God.

5. R. We are the apostles of this new era.

6. R. I was in Church today and I was reading this and He said that the moon was going to turn to blood on the 19th and the 22nd of December and I was reading this and it was like man, this is just like it.

Joel 3:1

‘After this I shall pour out my spirit on all humanity...

R. I’m a person that never read the Bible, I just never did, so I don’t really know these things and it’s like I opened it up and it’s just what He is saying.

Joel 3: 1-5

...Your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your old people shall dream dreams, and your young people see visions. Even on the slaves, men and women, shall I pour out my spirit in those days. I shall show portents in the sky and on earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.’ The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the Day comes, that great and terrible Day. All who call on the name of Yahweh will be saved, ...

R. That’s what the Father said in that message about wiping out the fields with some kind of fire, I don’t know what He said, It was January 18th.

7. Hail Mary
8. Hail Mary
9. Hail Mary
10. Hail Mary

Glory Be

 

The Assumption

R. This is from the Mass Book: “There are five blasphemies against Mary. They are against her Immaculate Conception, against her virginity, against her as Mother of God, against her images and statues, against her as mother of her children.” Mary was conceived Immaculate and pure, the most perfect human person, untainted by sin. So the first one is against her Immaculate Conception, the second is against her as Mother, and the third one is against her virginity, which she is the spouse of the Holy Spirit. It is real important that we do not blaspheme her in those three things. The five first Saturdays are because of the five blasphemies against Mary. Mary said that she appeared on the 5th of the month because of His five wounds and her five blasphemies. I never knew of 5 of anything when she started appearing on July 5, 1994. The Father said that the chastisement will be lessened and/or adverted entirely if we make reparation to her Immaculate Heart. Jesus gave the prayers in the Prayer Manual to Father Carter and told him exactly what we are to pray in the Prayer Manual. Jesus was telling me the other day how the Litany majorly addresses the first three blasphemies and so when we pray the Litany we are helping to make reparation to her Immaculate Heart.

First of all when we pray the Litany we pray to the Lord, I could go into a lot of detail of this, but I’m not going into it. We pray to God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, and then we pray to the Holy Trinity and we ask Them to please have mercy on us. Then we start praying to Mary, and the first three things that we say when we pray the Litany to Mary is Holy Mary, which is we are talking about her Immaculate state, then we talk about her as Holy Mother of God, then we talk about her as Holy Virgin of Virgins. So the Shepherds of Christ prayers, in praying the Litany, will majorly do what Mary said at Fatima, because over and over again it is said in there how we must help to make reparation to her Immaculate Heart and the Heart of her Son. So Jesus told us, because the Shepherds of Christ Movement is to help bring about the completion of the Fatima mission, Jesus told us the prayers to pray. We help make reparation to the heart of Mary when we pray the Litany. We honor her so greatly in her holiness and her motherhood and in her virginity, which are the three things that she is blasphemed against which is why there are Five First Saturdays. What we are to do on the Five First Saturdays is to help make reparation to her heart at Communion time. The reason they said to do it at Communion time is because that’s the time we are most one with God, and so therefore the greatest reparation is made. But when we recite the Litany we are immensely making reparation to her heart for the blasphemies that are against her heart.

1. R. In the Litany it calls Mary, Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church, Mother of Divine Grace. This just sends shivers inside of me, that she is the Mother of our sharing in this Divine Life. That is what she is called in the Litany, Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church, and Mother of the Divine God. Mary is Mother of our Christ Life. Then she is called Mother Most Pure. This refers to her Immaculate Conception by calling her most pure, we are saying she is the purest of all. Mother Most Pure, so we are honoring her in her Immaculate Conception where she is blasphemed by so many. Mother Most Chaste, she has the highest chastity, Mother Inviolate, Mother Undefiled, not marked in any way by sin, she is immaculately conceived.

The Father says this is My Mother, and He has referred to Mary as His Mother because she is pure, Immaculate, she is the Mother of God, the Mother of His creatures. There is no other mother that is the Mother of God, there is no other mother that is the Spiritual Mother of His creatures, so He refers to her as My Mother, My Mother for My creatures. Mary is the mother picked by the Father, the Mother of Divine Grace and then they go further and they call her Mother of the Creator, which means Mary is the Mother the Creator chose to bring forth His children. Mary is My Mother. Mary was chosen by Him to be the mother of His Son. Mary is the Mother of our Divine Life. No other mother holds this title.

He revealed this to me yesterday, how pleased God is when we pray the Litany, and it is exactly what the Father said in those messages that we need to do because He says that He will lessen and/or cut off the chastisements entirely if we make reparation to Mary’s Immaculate Heart. In the Litany we honor Mary as Mother, as Holy, as Virgin. All we know is that God gave these prayers to Father Carter and this is His instrument to help renew the Church and the world. But the more They tell us secrets to the mysteries, the more our heart burns for these insights. So many times what we end up doing is focusing on the way that satan is working and we are not focusing on the great gifts He has given us. This immense grace to have this intimate relationship to God. Mary appears to me and then I focus on something that satan is doing and isn’t that how it is in all of our lives. We go to the Eucharist and He gives us this abundant outpouring of grace and we are intimately close to Him, and we walk out of the Church and something goes wrong, and then we are focusing on the dumb things that satan is doing and not on these immense great gifts that God is really doing and revealing Himself in the greatest intimacy to us.

2. Hail Mary

3. R. Mirror of Justice, Mary is the mirror, she is the person that most reflects the Lord.

4. R. Seat of Wisdom. The Holy Spirit dwells within her heart. She is the Seat of Wisdom.

5. R. Mary is the Cause of Our Joy. For it is through her that we unite in the greatest intimacy with God. Mary is the gateway to the Heart of Christ and it is there that we unite in such oneness with the Father and the Holy Spirit.

6. R. Spiritual Vessel. Mary is the vessel that leads us to life in the Spirit.

7. R. For the Holy Spirit works within Mary’s heart, for Mary is a spouse to Him.

8. R. Vessel of Honor. Mary is the vessel that leads us to this life in the Trinity. Mary should be honored. Vessel of Honor.

9. R. Mary is the Mediatrix of Grace.

10. R. Singular Vessel of Devotion. Mary is the only one that is Immaculate. Mary is the only one Mother of God, Mary is the only one Mother of Divine Grace. Mary is called Singular Vessel of Devotion, Mary is the woman chosen by the Father. Mary is the Singular Vessel.

Glory Be

R. It is within her heart that the Holy Spirit reveals insights into the mysteries, as the Holy Spirit works within Mary’s heart, and Mary is called the Mystical Rose.

 

The Coronation

R. Tower of Ivory. Mary is most pure and Mary is all white.

1. R. And in the Litany we call to Mary as Queen. There are so many titles to Mary as Queen. She is Queen of heaven and earth, Mary’s Immaculate Heart will triumph over heaven and earth. Mary will be the Queen of all hearts as He is the King of all hearts. So in this mystery we meditate on Mary as Queen of Heaven and Earth.

2. Song: Hail Holy Queen Enthroned Above

3. R. House of Gold. Jesus came inside of Mary’s womb. Jesus is our Savior. Jesus is God.

4. R. Mary is the Ark of the Covenant. What a treasure! For the only ones that survived are the ones that went into Noah’s Ark. In the end we must go through the Immaculate Heart of Mary in order to be brought forth as children of light.

5. R. Gate of Heaven. Mary is the one that leads us to the intimacy with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit through her Immaculate and pure heart.

6. R. Mary is the Refuge for Sinners. Mary is the Morning Star. The world is tainted by the sin of Adam and Eve and Mary comes, the pure and sinless one, to lead the human race through her Immaculate Heart into the Heart of Christ and into the most intimate union with the Holy Trinity.

7. R. And so it is a fact, if we read all the messages in Fr. Carter’s Fatima and Medjugorje Book from Fatima, they will have such fullness after they have spoken to us in this rosary. Study each of the messages and see how the messages are centered in reparation. Majorly, reparation to her Immaculate Heart and reparation for the offenses against God. The focus being that in how He is being treated, so indifferently and with such dishonor in the Holy Eucharist. This Movement is to majorly bring about the completion of the Fatima message. Read through the messages given in Fr. Carter’s book, The Spirituality of Fatima and Medjugorje, and think about what They are speaking about when They talk about the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

8. R. I really never understood Fatima or the Scriptures. I was a math teacher and a mother and I didn’t understand these things. Fr. Carter would get up and talk about Fatima and I had this block because Jesus didn’t want that in the writings yet and I’d think what is he talking about up there. Then one day I got this light and from then on all of this on Fatima was in the writings, because the time was ready. This is like what He is doing to us, as we consecrate our heart to Mary, we go into her heart and the Holy Spirit gives us a grace and then the shade goes up, and with great vision we see all of these things and we know Him. This is a great gift that He has given to us, these insights, this Movement, the Eucharist and the Mass. Fr. Carter and all the Divine wisdom that Jesus has given through Fr. Carter for the holy Priests. We must be ever grateful and thank God always for what He has given to us. Praise Him and love Him.

Song: Holy God, We Praise Thy Name

R. I would just like to end with a couple of messages. One message Mary said that she is Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Fatima in the Americas.

From Blue Book 15 – Mary Speaks on June 14th, 1997:

Mary: I am the Lady clothed as the sun and appearing as Our Lady of Fatima in the Americas, Our Lady of Guadalupe - all of my titles will merge into one as the world is brought into oneness, majorly through the Chief Shepherd of the Flock, my Son Jesus. I am Our Lady appearing on a former bank building in Florida. You have made money your god! You are a sinful, willful race and our Blessed Lord is angered at the ways of the children of the world. You have not loved Him. You have offended God. The Father will chastise the earth because you fail to respond to the warnings given. The Father has asked for the Falmouth picture to be circulated throughout this earth. I request this picture to be circulated from my Florida site along with the other image and pictures of Our Lady of Light and Our Lady of Sorrows.

I am sorrowful for you have offended God and treated Him with indifference and neglect. I am Mary, your Mother. Oh, children of this earth, you are in for a weird awakening. You will suffer, but it will not be in ways you think. I am asking you to begin prayer chapters as the Father requested and spread the Priestly Newsletter. I am Our Lady of Fatima in the Americas, Our Lady of Guadalupe. end of excerpt

9. R. This is like the close of the time when she appeared. Mary appeared three years ago on this date and then on March 20th she appeared down at the Holy Spirit Center as Our Lady of Fatima. I never saw her appear as Our Lady of Fatima before.

From Blue Book 14

Vision as seen by Rita Ring, March 20, 1997

Junior Shepherds of Christ Meeting Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center

R. Mary appeared as Our Lady of Fatima for one hour and 15 minutes. Mary appeared in the Sorrowful Mother statue at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center.

I was at Our Lady’s House for the Junior Shepherds of Christ meeting. I cannot remember any great apparition of Mary in the Sorrowful Mother statue since August 12 and 13, 1996. She appeared all night and two times on August 13, 1996, once right before I went to the rosary at Tom’s farm about 5:30 p.m. (the night John was there and St. Michael came out of the water). Mary comes when you least expect her.

Tonight I went to the Holy Spirit Center for the rosary with the Junior Shepherds of Christ. We could not pray in the Rosary chapel because Fr. Smith was going to say Mass. We could not pray in the Sorrowful Mother’s chapel because the pews were draped with work clothes. We could not pray in the social hall because the band was playing. The only place left was in the hall on the other side of the wall from the band. The youth in the Shepherds of Christ chapter decided this was the place and moved pews in front of the statue.

As we began the rosary I began to see Mary, covered with a mist. Then I saw light around her. She got bigger than the statue, her face softened to that of the most beautiful woman – the same as the picture I took on Mother’s Day 1995 when she told me to buy film and take her picture. She was all adorned in light. She changed, around her head and she became a young, beautiful girl. She then changed into a lady of immense light, all white, beautiful and young. I wanted to cry in awe looking at her. I wanted to stop the rosary and just see the apparition, but I continued to speak as she spoke through me. The whole rosary was on Our Lady of Fatima. She turned into Our Lady of Fatima, so white, so beautiful, young in her face. I have seen many statues of Our Lady of Fatima. I have seen her all white and adorned in light before – Our Lady of Light, that is what she called herself. end of excerpt

R. Mary appeared and she was covered with the most radiant light, real big, and she had beads all over her and she looked like every Our Lady of Fatima statue that I have ever seen, but I had never seen her appear in this ornate stuff on her gown like this. She looked just like the Our Lady of Fatima statues. I thought this was majorly significant because this Lady of Guadalupe, which she says she is appearing as in Clearwater Florida, is Our Lady of Fatima in the Americas and Our Lady of Guadalupe is pregnant and she is bringing forth her children. This is what is happening to us as we consecrate our hearts to Mary, we are brought forth as children of light.

10. Mary: And so My beloved ones, I appear to you on a bank in Florida as Our Lady of Guadalupe. You have made money your God. There are so many gods that man has chosen. I am asking you my beloved shepherds to go into this world and to spread the prayers, to encourage all to pray these prayers. Encourage the young children to Consecrate their hearts, the old people to pray the prayers by tapes. My beloved Jesus, your Savior, is asking you to pray for the Priests and the renewal of the Church and the world. Will you obey for the love of Jesus and pray these prayers fervently? Jesus is dressing you in His Precious Blood, when you pray the prayers at the appointed hours of 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 and 12:00. The moon will turn to blood and you my beloved shepherds will be protected by His Precious Blood. It is important that you do all that Jesus asks of you to pray with fervor. It is in the prayers that the Shepherds of Christ Movement will spread to the far ends of this earth. Do not be afraid. Come to my Immaculate Heart for I will crush the serpent and take you into the Heart of my Son. I am Mary your Mother on this anniversary I give to you my motherly love. I am protecting you in my Immaculate Heart.

Song: Immaculate Mary

R. There is one more message about the picture that was passed out, because this picture is really important, the one on the Apostles Manual. There are great graces given in the reception of the Eucharist. Jesus speaks Saturday a week ago:

From Blue Book 15

June 28, 1997 Jesus: I give Myself to you in the Holy Eucharist. In this image (He’s talking about the image on the Apostles Manual in the prayer book.) My hands are extended in such giving love that I give to you. I extend this invitation to all Shepherds of Christ Associates to live the Blue Book messages and to help to spread the devotion to My Eucharistic Heart throughout this world. It is in the Eucharist I am greatly offended because I give Myself to you. It is through this Movement and the leaders living the Blue Book messages that the devotion will be spread on this earth. I am offended by any conversation before the tabernacle. Discussion of My Eucharistic presence and My love is permitted. Sins are committed, sins of indifference, sins of neglect, disrespect before the Eucharist. That which offends Me greatly is any condemnation of your neighbor in My Divine presence. I beg you to take this Mission with the greatest seriousness. You are Shepherds of Christ members. You are to help spread the devotion of My Eucharistic Heart. I wish this image to be circulated on the material distributed by the Shepherds of Christ. It is the Eucharist that is on the image that will help to lead the people to My Eucharistic Heart. My arms are open and I speak to you. Come to Me My beloved ones, come through the Immaculate Heart of My Mother to My Eucharistic Heart. I am Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the Flock, I give you Myself in the Eucharist. I give you My Mother as your Mother. I give you the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mother, My Mother and your Mother. I give you Myself in the Eucharist. I extend My arms to you. I am the bridegroom of your soul. You come to My altar through the Immaculate Heart of My Mother and I feed you with My Body.

This is not to indicate that this is the exclusive picture of the Shepherds of Christ Ministries. The picture I request to be blessed by Fr. Carter and placed in All homes of core members, is very important to the devotion to the Sacred Heart and the Movement. I request that the picture be included in front of the Apostles Manual opposite the Prayer for Union with Jesus. I’ve requested this picture to be placed on the Third Blue Book. This picture is very important to the Shepherds of Christ Movement. It is very important to devotion to My Heart. This was the picture that was on Fr. Carter’s ordination card. It will be a picture used to lead many priests and faithful to My Heart. The image on the Apostles Manual is to help increase devotion to the Two Hearts and the Eucharist. The third picture of the Sacred Heart is the picture used in the front of the Blue Book and the candlelight rosaries. Please continue to make available to all members the large picture for candlelight rosaries. The pictures are very important to promote devotion to Our Two Hearts. Please circulate them. end of excerpt

R. The point of this is, that there are great gifts given when you picture Jesus with His arms outstretched as He is on that picture that is on front of the Apostles Manual giving Himself to you as you walk the aisle to receive the Eucharist, and if you look at that picture after Communion, I have just gotten all kinds of gifts from that and I feel so intimately joined to Him, so I am just sharing this message so that you too, may choose to use this as a help in drawing yourselves more intimately with Jesus.

Glory Be

Matthew 7: 21-29

‘It is not anyone who says to me, "Lord, Lord," who will enter the kingdom of Heaven, but the person who does the will of my Father in heaven. When the day comes many will say to me, "Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, drive out demons in your name, work many miracles in your name?" Then I shall tell them to their faces: I have never known you; away from me, all evil doers!

                Given September 28, 2009
 

                Genesis

                    2000 - 1500 BC

                ACCOUNTABILITY

                RESPONSIBILITY TO OUR CREATOR

                EFFECTS OF SIN

                IMPORTANCE of COVENANT

                WILLINGNESS of GOD to bring
                        good even out of evil

                VISION of GOD

                God created out of nothing

                All was created by God with purpose and meaning —
                        ORDER, SYMMETRY, BALANCE

                GOD COMMANDS and THERE IS

                GOD CALL'S   —   WE RESPOND
                GOD IS MASTER

                    LIGHT - DARK
                    LAND - WATER
                    RAIN, SNOW, SUN, MOON

                VEGETATION —
                    every plant and fruit can be propagated
                    NATURAL ORDER
                    LIFE propagates itself
                            union ———> growth

                God called us to walk hand-in-hand with others
                    and with Him in the garden of life

                God established a natural order

                God made birds and creatures of the sea with
                    the ability to propagate themselves
                    "be fruitful and multiply"

                THE MYSTERY OF CREATION
                THE MYSTERY OF GOD'S LOVE
                                                GIVING TO MAN

                Song: A Song from Jesus

                Song: God's Love

                    God created animals and
                    God created man

                    Adam 
 

                Humans were created to know, love and
                    serve God —

                God honors us

                God allows us to participate —
                    co-create

                God made a couple necessary to have
                    offspring

                We are here to do God's work
                To walk the earth with dignity

                We represent God on the earthly realm
                The human person is the apex of creation —

                We are called to relationship —
                We see the Trinity in the work of Creation —

                Unity for growth
                Unity to propagate

                Relationship between men and God
                Relationship between men and one another

                    God creates out of love
                    Likewise human persons are to be loving
                    Parents, spouses, community —

                The seventh day is to be for resting —
                    we are to be holy —
                    we are to worship God
                    we are blessed by God
                    we are to be obedient to God's laws

                The world is God's — we are to work in
                    His vineyard
                    WORK and REST, pray, sleep, eat

                God created a beautiful, orderly world —
                    good and without sin, without violence,
                    and without evil
   

Our Father

    Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

                God gave us the world —
                    showing us the love between Him and His
                        creatures

                    The world is Blessed
                    There was before Adam and Eve sinned
                        no disease, no death, no disorder

                    To do good and have order we must
                        follow the will of the Father

                    Disorder and evil come from
                        rebelling against God's will

                    The original garden was in perfect harmony

                    Humans in the garden were to obey God
                        and not eat of the tree of good
                        and evil —

                    We are dependent on God
                    God is all good
                    God determines what is good and evil —

                "ORIGINAL SIN IS A LACK OF ONE'S
                    DEPENDENCE ON THE CREATOR —
                    LAWS OF CREATION AND THE
                    MORAL NORMS THAT GOVERN
                    FREEDOM"

                Humans have control over animal world —
                    Adam and Eve got to name the animals

                God made men and women for each other — to
                    love each other and to love God —

                God gives them the ability to co-create
                    children

                Eve is the mother of the living
                Eve comes from the rib of Adam

                Men and Women are called to marriage
                    self-giving — one body — one flesh

                A man leaves home
                A religious leaves home and is married to
                    God —

                A woman is to help man and visa versa

                A religious is to help and support the
                    children of the Church in
                    love and service

                Marriage is part of creation

                Pride, envy, shame, covetousness,
                    lust, etc. enter the world
                                    after the fall

                The devil is cunning —

                God's designs are still God's designs —

                God has promised Abraham

                despite cunningness of men — giving
                    into evil — God punished their
                    evilness

                Death is the consequence of sin,
                    disobedience to God's harmonious,
                    ordered world —

Genesis 3: 1-7

    Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, 'Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?' The woman answered the snake, 'We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, "You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death." ' Then the snake said to the woman, 'No! You will not die! God knows in fact that the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good from evil.' The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was enticing for the wisdom that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realised that they were naked. So they sewed fig-leaves together to make themselves loin-cloths.

                Death entered the world as a consequence
                    of sin —

                Listening to the serpent was not good
                    for Eve —

                The serpent lied —

                Adam and Eve have shame and guilt after the fall.

                God gives us confession in the Church —
                    but we must tell the truth
                    about our sins —

                When we sin we choose our selfish
                    will as opposed to God's will for us —

                Eve wanted to be "like God" "without God"

                sin is seeking independence from God —

                relativism — make up ones own truth,
                                    as they see it —
                                    opposed to God

                secularism wanting to be "like God"
                                    "without God"

                because of sin

                harmony is distorted
                we see God with distorted vision
                we see others with distorted vision
                we see ourselves with distorted vision

                Seven deadly sins:
                    Pride, Greed, Envy, Wrath, Lust, Gluttony, Sloth

                Man can hide sin —
                Men may want to look good
                    outside

is impure inside

                                LIES
                                SELFISHNESS
                                SLOTHFUL
                                SEEKING DOMINANCE for
                                            DOMINANCE sake

                God's creation — His plan
                    has now been ruptured
                    because of sin

                ACCOUNTABILITY to GOD
                            for sin

                Blaming enters the world
                            Adam blames Eve for sin
                            Eve blames serpent

                They could have obeyed

                ACCOUNTABILITY

                Concupiscence enters the world —
                    movement of desires of the
                    flesh contrary to human reason

                CONCUPISCENCE moves one to sin
                            tendency to sin
                            man rebels against God

                    God has all the power
                    We give into satan

                    ACCOUNTABILITY

                    RESPONSIBILITY

Genesis 3: 17-24

   To the man he said, ‘Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat,

Accursed be the soil because of you!
Painfully will you get your food from it
as long as you live.
It will yield you brambles and thistles,
as you eat the produce of the land.
By the sweat of your face
will you earn your food,
until you return to the ground,
as you were taken from it.
For dust you are
and to dust you shall return.’

   The man named his wife ‘Eve’ because she was the mother of all those who live. Yahweh God made tunics of skins for the man and his wife and clothed them. Then Yahweh God said, ‘Now that the man has become like one of us in knowing good from evil, he must not be allowed to reach out his hand and pick from the tree of life too, and eat and live for ever!’ So Yahweh God expelled him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he had been taken. He banished the man, and in front of the garden of Eden he posted the great winged creatures and the fiery flashing sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.

  

                The Blue Books help us to be more
                    and more intimate with God —
                    giving us greater sharing
                    in His life through the sacraments —
                    frequent reception of the
                    Eucharist, adoration of
                    the Blessed Sacrament —
                    Confession — etc. —

                Cain lied to God
                Cain slew his brother

                God warned —   

Genesis 4: 6-7

Yahweh asked Cain, ‘Why are you angry and downcast? If you are doing right, surely you ought to hold your head high! But if you are not doing right, Sin is crouching at the door hungry to get you. You can still master him.’

                God punishes, but shows mercy

                Lamech was prideful, arrogant
                    and revengeful — Vengeance is
                    reserved for God —
                    seeking to be like God —
                        without God

Genesis 4: 23-26

Lamech said to his wives:

Adah and Zillah, hear my voice,
wives of Lamech, listen to what I say:
I killed a man for wounding me,
a boy for striking me.
Sevenfold vengeance for Cain,
but seventy-sevenfold for Lamech.

Seth and his descendants

Adam had intercourse with his wife, and she gave birth to a son whom she named Seth, "because God has granted me other offspring", she said, "in place of Abel, since Cain has killed him." A son was also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. This man was the first to invoke the name Yahweh.

                Adam and Eve gave birth to Seth —

                God wants a pure heart —
                    one to worship Him —
                    not a wicked heart

                Noah's sons were
                    Shem — father of dark skinned Semitic - Arabia
                    Ham — father of southern black Africa
                    Japheth — father of white skinned European

                    3 sons — founders of 3 races of the world —

                Noah is the "New Adam" after the flood —

                Adam and Eve sinned and each generation
                    adds more sin —
                    corruption at the time of Noah

                Mary appeared in Clearwater —
                    a messenger from God —
                    a sign was given with Noah
                    after the flood — the
                    Covenant God made with Noah —

    God spoke as follows to Noah and his sons, ‘I am now establishing my covenant with you and with your descendants to come, and with every living creature that was with you: birds, cattle and every wild animal with you; everything that came out of the ark, every living thing on earth. And I shall maintain my covenant with you: that never again shall all living things be destroyed by the waters of a flood, nor shall there ever again be a flood to devastate the earth.’

    ‘And this’, God said, ‘is the sign of the covenant which I now make between myself and you and every living creature with you for all ages to come: I now set my bow in the clouds and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I gather the clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds, I shall recall the covenant between myself and you and every living creature, in a word all living things, and never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all living things.

 

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                God was kind in flooding the earth —
                    because of the corruption of the men —

                    Noah found favor with God

                God is love —

                What God does is loving

                Repeated sins lead to blinded vision —
                    ill informed conscience —
                    repeated acts — habits of sin

                As sin spreads from individuals
                    it becomes a social sin —

                    ABORTION —

                    Social sin can envelop an
                entire society —

                Noah and the flood —
                    sin corrupted the people —
                    Noah found favor with God

                God wants us holy

                We become slaves to sin —
                    We can just keep giving in
                        to sin —

                    Deliverance —

                        Confession

                Noah obeyed God
                Noah had great faith
                Noah did as he was told

                NOAH was blessed

                God sent Noah out to renew
                    the world

                In salvation history —
                    man disobeys God
                    God is always renewing

Mary by day July 5, 2000

by night July 5, 2000

July 31, 1994

October 13, 1994

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

     from Tell My People

by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

July 13, 1917

    "During her appearance in July, Our Lady, in answer to Lucia's plea, promised that in October she would work a great miracle so that all might believe and know who she was. Again, the Mother of God told the children to sacrifice themselves for sinners and to say many times, especially when making a sacrifice, this prayer: "O my Jesus, I offer this for love of Thee, for the conversion of poor sinners, and in reparation for all the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary." ⁽¹¹⁾

    "During this same July apparition, Mary showed the three children a vision of Hell. She told them:

    "You have seen Hell, where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish, in the world, devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If people do what I tell you, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.

    "The war (World War I, then raging) is going to end. But if people do not stop offending God, another and worse one will begin in the reign of Pius XI. When you shall see a night illuminated by an unknown light [January 2, 1938], know that this is the great sign that God gives you that He is going to punish the world for its many crimes by means of war, hunger, and persecution of the Church and the Holy Father. ⁽¹²⁾

    "To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of Reparation on the five first Saturdays. If my requests are granted, Russia will be converted and there will be peace. If not, she will scatter her errors throughout the world, provoking wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, and various nations will be destroyed....

    "But in the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph, the Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, Russia will be converted, and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world." ⁽¹³⁾

 11. For background material on Fatima, I am particularly indebted to 
    Our Lady of Fatima's Peace Plan from Heaven (Rockford: TAN 
    Books and Publishers, Inc., 1983). pp.3-4.
12. Ibid., pp.4-5.
13. Ibid., p.5.

                There was World War II — as Mary said

                Covenant with Noah

    God spoke as follows to Noah and his sons, ‘I am now establishing my covenant with you and with your descendants to come, and with every living creature that was with you: birds, cattle and every wild animal with you; everything that came out of the ark, every living thing on earth. And I shall maintain my covenant with you: that never again shall all living things be destroyed by the waters of a flood, nor shall there ever again be a flood to devastate the earth.’

    ‘And this’, God said, ‘is the sign of the covenant which I now make between myself and you and every living creature with you for all ages to come: I now set my bow in the clouds and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I gather the clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds, I shall recall the covenant between myself and you and every living creature, in a word all living things, and never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all living things.

                Those who opposed God will
                    deal with God —

                Noah's sons —

                        Be fruitful and multiply

                    Ham was sinful (Noah's son)
                        Noah curses Ham

                    Shem and Japheth — Noah blesses

                From Shem to Abraham

                    Abram was a descendent of Shem

                    Abram took a wife Sarai
                        Sarai was barren

                    Abraham will be blessed by God —
                    Blessings and Curses will come to the
                        world through Abram

                    Those who imitate Abram's
                        faith will be blessed

                Terah Abram's father
                    takes Abram and Sarai, Lot
                    and they settle in Haran

                then they leave for Canaan

                they travel to Shechem

                God appears to Abram and tells him
                    his descendants will inherit
                    the land of Canaan

                Abram moved to Bethel, then Negeb
                                            (southern Palestine)

                because of famine
                    Abram and his clan go to Egypt

                He tells the Pharaoh Sarai is his
                    sister —

                Pharaoh wants Sarai for his wife —
                Abram gets flocks, herds, slaves etc. from Pharaoh

                A plague hits Pharaoh and his household
                    because of Sarai

                Because of the plague the Pharaoh
                    sends Sarai and Abram and
                    clan away

                    Abram and Lot separate

                    Sodom and Gomorrah are on
                    Lot's part —

                    Abram allows God to choose his land.

                The Lord promises Abram — land as
                    far as he could see —
                    also numerous descendants

                Sodom is destroyed
                Lot saved

                God makes a covenant with Abraham

Chapter 15 Genesis

                    Sarai lets Hagar conceive with
                        Abram, but

                    She is trying to force God to do
                        things on her time table

                    Sarai becomes jealous of Hagar —
                        there is envy on both sides —
                        jealousy

                    Sarai abuses Hagar and forces
                        her to run away —

                    The messenger of the Lord comes to
                        Hagar while she is away and
                        promises her descendants —
                        uncountable
                        Hagar will have Ishmael —
                            Abram's son

                At 99 God appears to Abram —
                    tells him he will be the
                    Father of many nations

                His name is now Abraham —

                God promises the covenant is
                    everlasting —

                God Promises Abraham the
                    land of Canaan —

                    "Father of a host of nations"

                They must be faithful to the Covenant

                God tested them —

                God had a plan
                God wanted their faithfulness —
                God wanted their loyalty —

                They are told to circumcise each
                    male on the 8th day in order
                    to be part of the covenant —

                God shows His relationship
                    with Him and His people —

                In the New Testament —
                    babies are baptized —

                Sarai will be Sarah (princess)

                She will give birth to a son who
                    will father many nations —

                Abraham prostrates himself —
                    Sarah laughs — she is 90.
                    Isaac means "laughed"
                                    "May God smile"

                    Ishmael will be protected —
                    Sarah's son is to be named Isaac

                The Covenant will be maintained
                    by Isaac —

                3 men come —
                    2 messengers and Yahweh —

                Abraham offers food

                One tells Sarah she will have a
                    son in a year — Isaac

                All nations will be blessed by Abraham
                    and punishment is going down
                    on Sodom and Gomorrah

                Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah —

                The angels tell Lot to take all of
                    his household and leave the city.

                The son-in-laws won't follow
                    Lot and their wives —

                They were told to go right away —

                The entire city and everything in it
                    was destroyed —

                Lot's wife looks back and is turned
                    into a pillar of salt

                Lot was spared because of Abraham —

                Chapter 21 Genesis

                    Sarah bears a son

                    The son is Isaac

                    Sarah sends Hagar away again
                        because of jealousy

                    God tells Abraham that Ishmael
                        will have a great nation —

                    God hears Ishmael's cry
                        in desert and he gives
                        them a well of water

                    Ishmael is blessed by God

                Genesis Chapter 22

                    Abraham is tested and obedient

                    He is told to take his son to
                        Moriah and offer his son
                        as a sacrifice —

                    Abraham obeys

                    Isaac asks where the sheep is

                    Abraham says God will provide —

                    This pre-figures the New Testament where
                        Jesus is the Lamb of God

                    The Lord's messenger tells
                        Abraham the son is
                        spared by God — he was being
                        tested by God.

                    Abraham sees a ram and uses it

                    Abraham is promised descendants,
                        strength against enemies and
                        all the world will be
                        blessed through Abraham's
                        descendants —