June 26, 2019
Today's Gospel
Matthew 7: 15-20
‘Beware of false
prophets who come to you disguised as sheep but
underneath are ravenous wolves. You will be able to
tell them by their fruits. Can people pick grapes
from thorns, or figs from thistles? In the same way,
a sound tree produces good fruit but a rotten tree
bad fruit. A sound tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor a
rotten tree bear good fruit. Any tree that does not
produce good fruit is cut down and thrown on the
fire. I repeat, you will be able to tell them by
their fruits.
June 26, 1995
The Pain - Naples, Florida
R.
He spread His arms, He
gave His all, Jesus, the Son of God, the greatest sacrifice, He gave Himself entirely for the good of all
men. He opened His arms, He died on the cross.
His arms were covered with blood, His arms so weak and filled
with pain, wounded. His arms, the pain shot up His arms and the final
blow to each arm a nail through each precious hand.
All the agony He experienced, all the pain, and the crown, to
each arm, a nail hammered into the hand.
All the nerves cut and severed by the nail, the pain shooting up
His precious arms, the final blow given to His most precious
members. The legs that carried Him, that carried the heavy cross, the
legs that were forced and cajoled, that continues to Calvary
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the legs
weakened, skinned, bleeding, beaten, burned, the legs that knew patience
and perseverance, the legs connected to a sore foot that was rubbed
and gashed and bleeding, the members of Jesus, filled with such pain
and exhaustion, now is crowned with the final glory. The nail that
was driven into the foot, the pain shot up this already weakened leg,
covered with blood and wounds and pain, the final blow, the nerves severed by
the hammered nail.
A blow to each hand, a blow to each foot, a blow to the head, a stamping that pressed down and continued in excruciating pain.
Jesus:
They numbered all
My bones. They gave Me vinegar and gall to drink. They gave Me a cloth to wipe My blood-covered
flesh. What did they give to Me? Love is giving, My dear ones. How many of you are wounded when you are not given things by your brothers you love?
My members were in such pain, the pain shot up My arms. My legs were so weak I could scarce move them. I was filled with
pain within them.
To all who watched, they saw a man, weakened and covered with blood and wounds. They did not see the pain inside that shot up
My legs and arms, the nerves inside My body that sent signals of deep
pain to My central nervous system. They did not see the nerves inside
sending pain signals everywhere.
The final blow being to each hand and foot, the severing of My
nerves by the blunt and rusted nails.
An arm extended. A final blow. I beheld a nail pounded into My
hand and the pain shot up My arms, unbearable to a human mind.
Do you know of the pain within My body? Signals sending messages of deep pain everywhere. I knew all of these sufferings in the
garden. So great were the sufferings to My mind, I sweat blood.
My flesh was covered with wounds. My arms were stretched from
their sockets. My body was beaten and bleeding, every inch of My body covered with deep wounds. But, My loved ones, you miss the depth
of My love. My wounds were so deep, but the final wound, the pounding
of the nails in My hands and feet, a severing of the nerves, an ending
of the deepest pain, to experience even deeper pain, beyond your human comprehension, it was done to the Almighty God, a Divine Person,
I suffered the final blow to each member.
The pounding in the hands and feet, the crown to each member,
and they numbered all My bones. My nerves a network of pain running throughout My entire body.
The pain within the body, the pain recorded in My loving head,
the pain sent by a network of nerves in My body, now records the
final blows, the nails in the hands and feet, the pain being recorded from
every thorn that pierced My skull, every gash to My body, the pain, the
pain, the pain
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a network of signals and
pain, running through My body and the final hour, the pains recorded on the cross, arms outstretched
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a surrendering to all pain. I surrendered to a body laden with pain.
You focus on your little problems, your little aches and pains.
You discuss them and show the world your pin pricks and sufferings. Do you want to know holiness and love? They gave Me vinegar
mixed with gall. This was their offering. They gave Me a cross. They
crowned My head with a crown of thorns.
This, My dear ones, is suffering, My beloved souls, I gave My
life for and this is their return.
A severing of My nerves, the final blows to all the aches and
pains recorded in My nervous system. This was one of the final blows
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the rusted nails pounded into My hands.
You will feel little aches and pains in your hands and feet to
remind you of this message. Your understanding of the immense pain
within will deepen. What was visible to the eye on My battered body was
nothing compared to the pains within. I gave My all. I gave My insides,
My mind, My Heart, wounded for the love of men. All functions in the body were stopped. The final curtain, blood and water pouring out from My Heart,
show that all functions of the body had ended.
R.
All signals that
carried messages of immense pain had ended, the final act of surrender for God to die to this human body and
surrender His flesh.
Jesus:
And end, a
beginning, the water and blood flowed from My Heart, the beginning of My life in the Church, life flowing into
your spirit.
R.
Come give me life,
abundant life. I thirst to be with Thee.
Jesus:
My blood was
spent. My human flesh and blood offered as the sacrifice, the sacrifice of Calvary is now made present at every
Mass. An end, a beginning, and the grace and life flow through the sacraments in the Church. My life flows to you in the Mass.
Mary, the Mediatrix of all grace, stands by the side of the altar and the
grace flows from the Father, through My body offered up as a sacrifice in
the Holy Spirit, given through the Mothership of Mary to you in the
Church. You stand under the cross with My Mother and you receive the
gift given, My Body, My Blood.
R.
Man is reconciled with
the Father through the Divine Person, Jesus Christ, and you receive His life poured out to you as Calvary is
made present in the unbloody sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
Do you feel the graces poured out to you at this sacrifice of
the Son of God at every Mass? Do you feel the presence of the Father, Son
and Holy Spirit and Mary, all the angels and saints, and the souls in
purgatory? Do you feel united as one at the sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally
made present upon the altar through the priest? The priest who now
puts on Christ and through Him the dispenser of this life given to man.
Jesus:
Oh, My beloved
ones, love so dearly your priest. Give him such reverence. He is the chosen instrument of God and you treat him
with such ordinariness. You are so blind and so dumb in your ways. And they numbered all My bones. Each nerve carrying a message of My love of mankind, each member in My Church carrying a special message, all united as one working in harmony according to the
Father’s will, each carrying a message of love to one another.
The body is many members, you are the messengers of My love.
Christ is the head. The message does not flow as it should when some
are cut off from the Head. They nailed My hands and feet and My nerves were severed by the nails, such pain, undescribable in words, the severing of My
nerves from the body, the severing of many members from the body of Christ. My Body given for all on the cross, the network of nerves within carrying the messages of My love to all mankind. My body covered
on the outside with blood and wounded, the pain recorded within.
Your Church, covered with blood on the outside, the slaughter of innocent babies, the homosexuality, the sins of the flesh, the
members that have severed themselves from the source by their sins, but
the pain is carried in the nerves inside. The blood of the Lamb shed for
each and every soul, the real pain carried within. The life is weakened
in your Church because the love of God is so weak in many members. The messages of love are not being transmitted as they should be.
Your body shows the wounds, but your pain within is the root of the
problems. The pain is from the messages of love that are not being
transmitted.
Unless you seek to fill your priests and sisters with the fire
of God’s love, fill their hearts with burning love for God, your Church
will continue to show the marks of the blood shed without. I give to
you these letters as a mighty medicine for this world, directed to make
men’s hearts burn with love of God and love of one another. The rosaries are meditations and messages given from the Hearts of Jesus and
Mary. These messages will make men’s hearts burn with fire for love of
God. You have ignored the importance of these letters.
I send to you the mighty medicine to heal a hurting world. My priests and religious need these messages. The love of God
will be transmitted to the Church from these messages when you circulate
these letters.
The devil has blocked the minds of men involved in these
messages because of their importance to the world and the Church.
I am speaking to you Fr. Carter to help to get these messages
published and circulated as soon as possible. I give to you a mighty
medicine for a sick world.
Read St. Thomas Aquinas about the medicine for the sick Church. You know what these messages have done for you. I am Jesus. I
give to you the mighty medicine for a sick world, for a sick Church,
rosaries and letters from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
Your Church shows the wounds of bloodshed, abortion, homosexuality, sins of the flesh, murder of little children’s
minds with sex education in Catholic schools and you hold back the gifts of
God’s love I am giving to the Church and this world.
My arms were weak and wounded but the final blow as the nail put
in My hand. It severed the nerves.
The final blow is the bloodshed in the Church, the slaughtering
of children’s minds in Catholic schools. My children are pure and
innocent. They are not being taught messages of God’s love, they are being
taught messages of sick sex and coldness.
Men’s hearts have turned cold. They have been severed from the
life of the body. The body is decaying from within. Only with the
love of God enkindled in men’s hearts will this bloodshed stop.
I beg you to publish and circulate these messages in the Church.
I am Jesus. I am giving you the mighty medicine for the world.
Your body wears the marks of the bloodshed, only with messages of My on
-fire love will it stop.
Mary leads you to Jesus. Never is she the end. The Father has a
plan. Mary’s messages have led men and will lead men to Jesus. Satan
has tried to stop all efforts to publish and circulate these messages. I
am the Almighty God. The funds will come when you circulate and publish these messages and rosaries under the Shepherds of Christ
Publishing. I am working with Fr. Carter and Rita as messenger to renew the
Church and the world. Each messenger has a very vital role in the
Father’s plan. The significance of these messages are being overlooked. You are
not studying the messages as a whole and their content. There are
five unpublished
Blue
Books and more than four
Rosary Books
which I and My Mother have given to this world in the last 14 months. I have
also given 15 songs of My love. I am begging you to see to the recording
and publishing of this music. I beg you to listen. This is the
mighty medicine for the Church and the world to draw men to the burning love of
Jesus. Please harken to My call. I will send you the money. You must
study and read these messages. This is a fulfillment of Fatima
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these messages
were given to bring priests to the burning love of Jesus. I am Jesus,
your beloved Savior.
Given June 25, 2019
Mary: I love you, as your heavenly Mother.
God has given this precious gift,
Shepherds of Christ to help you to grow
more and more in the spiritual life.
I am Mary, your spiritual
Mother. I love you and want
you to grow to be so one
with Jesus and be more and
more molded in His image
and likeness.
You are my precious child –
My sweet child, I love you
as my little one – Do you
believe me –
When you talk to me – I
love to talk to you and
be united to you, my precious
child.
Many of your brothers and
sisters will be lost because
they will not stop sinning
mortally. Please they do
not listen to anyone, except satan.
They give into temptations because
of their pride and anger and
jealousy and envy. They do not
like or love their brothers –
They treat their brothers and
sisters created by God as
enemies.
They give into power and dominance
even wanting to put themselves
before God.
The devil lies to them and they
listen to his lies because
of pride and not loving
themselves as they should.
God is love. He loves you
so much. I am your spiritual
Mother. I love you to come
to my Immaculate Heart.
You are my spiritual child.
I walk with you and my
Motherly eyes are eyes of
precious love for you my
child.
You have a free will to
listen or like some
put yourself in your
mind in a fake reality in which
satan keeps distorting that
reality in lies.
My children, my children
God is love – what more
can I say – when you give
your hearts to satan and
pride you are living a lie.
Mary's
Message
from the Rosary of August 27, 1996
Mary:
I stood beneath the cross of my Son, and my Heart was in such pain for I
saw Him before my eyes. I saw Him covered with blood. I saw Him die. My
Heart, my children, my Heart to watch my Son, but my Heart, my Heart, how I
suffered for my little children of the world that give in to this world and
give up the love of my Son. O my little children of light, I give you this
message. Carry this light into the darkness for your Mother Mary, for I
stood beneath the cross and I cried. I cried for the little ones. I cried
for the young ones, the ones that do not care and will lose their souls. How
do I make you see for you will not listen to me? What can I do? I come. I
appear. I beg. I plead. I give you these gifts from my Son, and you reject
me. I do not deliver messages very often anymore for I have been ignored.
The message is the same. You do not read the messages I have given to you.
Please help me. Help the little children. I appear. I appear. I appear, and
I am ignored. I stood beneath the cross, and I cried. I cried, and my Heart
was in such anguish for my little children, for I am searching for them this
day as I searched for the Child Jesus. Please, please help me. I cannot hold
back the hand of my Son any longer. I am Mary, your Mother. I ask you to
help my children. You are my children of light.
end of Mary's Message
Mary: I call all to come to Florida
for July 5, 2019.
You did the first 5th in
Florida 21 years ago
July 5, 1998.
God the Father:
I wish Blue Book 19 telling of
the month before this to
be published.
I wish these prayers on
the 5ths. Satan has done
so much to stop and interfere
with the 5ths. On the 5ths
and 13ths Mary prays
with you. Mary's intercession
with your prayers is so
very powerful. Satan hates
the 5ths and 13ths – they have
been blocked and curtailed –
this is due to selfishness –
I do not like this – I called
the 5ths and 13ths – who
has so much stupidity and
gaul to ignore Me. I am
your heavenly Father who
loves you so much and
created you in love.
Disobedient, willful, angry
children and I created
you in the image and
likeness of Jesus –
defying Me –
All that you do should be to
serve Me and to love – to
bring peace and love to
the world –
My requests for Prayer
on the 5ths and 13ths are
not to be taken lightly.
Satan tempted Eve in the
Garden and she disobeyed
God and disorder, disease,
rebellion, sin entered the world.
Mary in these apparitions is
a gift I have given you,
your heavenly Father –
I am God of heaven and
earth, I am your heavenly
Father, who loves you so
much, who created you in
love –
Mary is your heavenly Mother,
your spiritual Mother –
Why do you listen to satan,
when I give you such
a gift –
Deuteronomy 26: 1-11
'When you have
entered the country which
Yahweh
your
God
is giving you as heritage, when you
have taken possession of it and are
living in it, you must set aside the
first-fruits
of all the produce of the soil
raised by you in your country, given
you by
Yahweh
your God. You must put these in a
basket and go to the place where
Yahweh
your
God
chooses to give his name a home. You
will
go to the
priest
then in office and say to him,
"Today I declare to
Yahweh
my
God
that I have reached the country
which
Yahweh
swore to our ancestors that he would
give us."
‘The priest will then take the
basket from your hand and lay it before the altar of Yahweh
your God. In the presence of Yahweh your God, you will then
pronounce these words:
“My father was a wandering
Aramaean, who went down to Egypt with a small group of men,
and stayed there, until he there became a great, powerful
and numerous nation. The Egyptians ill–treated us, they
oppressed us and inflicted harsh slavery on us. But we
called on Yahweh, God of our ancestors. Yahweh heard our
voice and saw our misery, our toil and our oppression;and
Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with mighty hand and
outstretched arm, with great terror, and with signs and
wonders. He brought us here and has given us this country,
a country flowing with milk and honey. Hence, I now bring
the first–fruits of the soil that you, Yahweh, have given
me.”
You must then rejoice in all the
good things that
Yahweh your
God has bestowed on you and
your family-you, the Levite and the foreigner living with
you.
Shepherds of
Christ Priestly Newsletter 2000 Issue 3
The Father's Will for
Us - Our Source of Peace
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Pope John Paul II
instructs us: "The Church, as a reconciled and
reconciling community, cannot forget that at the source
of her gift and mission of reconciliation is the
initiative, full of compassionate love and mercy, of
that God who is love (see 1 John 4:8) and who out of
love created human beings (see Wisdom 11:23-26; Genesis
1:27: Psalms 8:4-8)…He created them so that they might
live in friendship with Him and in communion with one
another.
"God is faithful to His
eternal plan even when man, under the impulse of the
evil one (see Wisdom 2:24) and carried away by his own
pride, abuses the freedom given to him in order to love
and generously seek what is good, and (instead) refuses
to obey his Lord and Father. God is faithful even when
man, instead of responding with love to God’s love,
opposes Him and treats Him like a rival, deluding
himself and relying on his own power, with the resulting
break of relationship with the One who created him. In
spite of this transgression on man’s part, God remains
faithful in love.
"It is certainly true
that the story of the Garden of Eden makes us think
about the tragic consequences of rejecting the Father,
which becomes evident in man’s inner disorder and in the
breakdown of harmony between man and woman, brother and
brother (see Genesis 3:12 ff; 4:1-16). Also significant
is the Gospel parable of the two brothers (the parable
of the ‘prodigal son’; see Luke 15:11-32) who, in
different ways, distance themselves from their father
and cause a rift between them. Refusal of God’s fatherly
love and of His loving gifts is always at the root of
humanity’s divisions.
"But we know that
God…like the father in the parable (of the prodigal
son), does not close His heart to any of His children.
He waits for them, looks for them, goes to meet them at
the place where the refusal of communion imprisons them
in isolation and division. He calls them to gather about
His table in the joy of the feast of forgiveness and
reconciliation.
"This initiative on God’s
part is made concrete and manifest in the redemptive act
of Christ, which radiates through the world by means of
the ministry of the Church."
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13. Pope John Paul II, as
in Celebrate 2000!, Servant Publications, pp.
140-141.
21 Years Ago
May 16, 1998 - Prayer
to the Father
My Father,
With my
whole heart I desire to consecrate the whole
world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the
Immaculate Heart of Mary. I wish with my whole
being for the salvation of souls and that man
live according to Thy Holy Will. I pray my
Father that we may be one in You and Your Son
Jesus and the Holy Spirit that we may intercede
to You for this cause.
It is
this burning desire within my soul to spread the
consecration to the far ends of the earth, that
the cries of Your children are cries of glory
and honor and adoration, praising God as their
God.
My
Father, at this moment a soul hangs on the edge
of death. For all eternity they will go to a
place. It is not the plot of this soul as it
trods this barren land to decide on the edge of
death. You created us that we would grow in our
oneness with God, that we would mature more and
more in our image and likeness to God.
And so My
Father, I pray with every cell in my body for
this earth. In the name of Your Son Jesus I
consecrate all the souls of this earth to the
Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary in
the Holy Spirit in union with the Holy sacrifice
of the Mass with all the angels and saints and
the souls in Purgatory.
I beg You
Father for mercy.
I beg You Father for assistance.
I beg You Father to help us to spread
this consecration to the far ends of the earth.
Please
help us. We are helpless little ones coming in
the heart of our Mother, bleeding from our
wounds and our sins.
Your Son,
Jesus Christ, shed the last drop of His Blood
for the salvation of mankind. We wish to unite
in this sacrifice, sacramentally made present in
the Mass all over the world at every moment.
Help us to make reparation to You for the sins
of men.
Please my
Father, help us. Held in the heart of Mary and
the Heart of Jesus we come as the children of
Eve to beg for the Reign of the Sacred Heart and
the Triumph of Mary's heart. Look upon our love,
Your shepherds in the Shepherds of Christ, our
sacrifices and devotion to You Our Beloved
Father. Come by the means of the Holy Spirit and
sanctify us and make us whole, that we are one
in Your Son Jesus, praying to You, Father, in
the name of Your Son Jesus in the Holy Spirit
united with all the angels and saints, in the
heart of Mary. We beg for help for special
intentions concerning the Movement. We beg for
help to reach the Churches to give these prayers
of Jesus to them, to reach the schools and the
family. Help we cry as poor banished children of
Eve. Help us Father to do this work the Good
Shepherd has entrusted to us. Help us to be one
in You that we act as intercessors to help this
world to be turned to God as their God, loving,
honoring and adoring Him as the Lord of Host is
truly present on His throne.
We are
Your children Father, we implore You to answer
our prayer.
We love You, we worship You, we adore
You, we thank you and we sing from the bottom of
our hearts, Holy God we Praise Your Name.
Alleluia
end of
prayer to the Father
June 25, 2019
R. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I
place my trust in Thee.
My God today is Your day, to love
and serve You and to be
in relationship with You.
I want to know You more and
more and to be close to
You.
I love You my Beloved and I
believe You are here
with me now.
Relationship – I am never alone
because I know the Presence
of God with me always.
Dear God help me to know Your
presence ever more.
Sing song: Your Presence Pervades My Soul
R. Prayer
Come to me Lord and Possess My Soul
Relationships grow -- they are so
very precious to know and
love others –
I have dear friends and I may not
see them but they are in
my heart and I love them,
even when I am not with
them, I have them in
unity in my heart, I can
think about their lives
and what they are doing
now and I can call
them sometimes, or text them and
they respond and that unity is
precious to me.
In a family as some go their
separate ways in life we
still stay connected, some
can send pictures, or
mention things we did
together or are doing that
we share.
Praying is especially important
where I can say my Morning
Offering and be united to others
in the Church all day – united
to the Mass, praying in
adoration before Jesus for the
Church and the world and
knowing others are united
and praying with me –
united to Jesus in the Mass.
And God pours out His grace
and is one with us –
We don't want any blocks
in our hearts to unity and love
with God and others.
Our hearts were made for
love and unity. Our hearts
were made to grow ever more
in love.
In baptism God gives us a
sharing in His life and He
opens the supernatural world
to us. God elevates our
knowing and loving capacity
and we share in His loving
activity on a supernatural level.
As God dwells in us, He operates
in us and it is God abundantly
filling us more and more with
Himself. He operates and loves
in us. He loves others
through us –
Come to Me Lord and Possess
My Soul, Come into my heart
and permeate my soul –
I am yours to possess –
I want to have my life in you.
Life in the Spirit –
The Holy Spirit fills us –
Come Holy Spirit, Come!
Veni Sancte Spiritus –
I can be filled with the Holy Spirit
and I do not see Him –
He comes and possesses
my soul –
Life in God –
My Guardian Angel is
always with me –
I dwell in Mary's Immaculate
Heart and she places me ever
more deeply in Jesus' Sacred Heart –
We see pictures of Jesus –
with His Hand - showing
us His Heart on fire with
love for us.
Promises of Our Lord to those devoted to
His Sacred Heart:
1. I will give them all the graces necessary in their
state of life.
2. I will establish peace in their homes.
3. I will comfort them in all their afflictions.
4. I will be their refuge during life and above all in
death.
5. I will bestow a large blessing on all their
undertakings.
6. Sinners shall find in My Heart the source and the
infinite ocean of mercy.
7. Tepid souls shall grow fervent.
8. Fervent souls shall quickly mount to high perfection.
9. I will bless every place where a picture of My Heart
shall be set up and honored.
10. I will give to priests the gift of touching the most
hardened hearts.
11. Those who promote this devotion shall have their
names written in My Heart, never to be blotted out.
12. I promise you in the excessive mercy of My Heart that
My all-powerful love will grant to all those who communicate on the
first Friday in nine consecutive months the grace of final penitence;
they shall not die in My disgrace nor without receiving their
sacraments; My divine Heart shall be their safe refuge in this last
moment.
Galatians 2: 19-20
...I have been crucified with
Christ and yet I am alive; yet
it is no longer I, but Christ
living in me.
R. Dear God - Our hearts were
made for Thee –
I love You so much –
Relationship –
Even though I do not see
God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit – I am
deeply united in my relationship
with God –
Life is in Him.
The Blue Books are God's personal
love letters to us – so we can
be more one with Him –
Help me circulate these and
help others to know that
God loves them so much –
Mary said at Fatima we need
to consecrate our hearts to
Their Two Hearts –
This can bring unity in
oneness in the Church
and the world.
The Church is one, holy,
Catholic and Apostolic.
Excerpt from Response in Christ
by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.
e) Relationship with Members of the Church
There
is but one true Church of Christ. Yet this one Church has three different
states of existence. There is the pilgrim Church, the Church of this world,
composed of members who have received the grace of Christ and strive for its
development. They have not yet obtained the goal of their efforts, as have
the members of the heavenly Church, who enjoy God in eternal happiness. The
Church suffering is an intermediate state of existence necessary for those
who had not achieved the required purification as members of the pilgrim
Church. Although there are these three phases of the Church’s existence,
there is a profound union existing between all the members. All these
members possess the same basic life of grace in Christ, and this common life
establishes the most intimate bonds of love. In our preceding chapter, we
discussed the pilgrim Church. Let us now consider the Church suffering and
the heavenly Church.
The
members of the Church suffering are those who have departed from this life
in an incomplete state of Christian development. Their development is
incomplete in the sense that grace has not fully taken possession of them,
and, as a result, they are yet closed in upon themselves to a greater or
lesser degree. They as yet cannot open themselves out in complete love to
the Triune God in the beatific vision. They must undergo a further
purification, a purification which could have been achieved upon earth with
merit. Now the purification must be achieved with no merit attached. The
pain of this purification is mixed with the certain expectation of achieving
the vision of God. We can hasten the advent of this vision for this people
by the offering of prayers and other good works. Scripture itself refers to
our action on behalf of those in purgatory in Chapter 12 of the Second Book
of Maccabees beginning with verse 38.
The
members of the heavenly Church are those in whom the life of grace has taken
full possession and has reached its completion in the life of glory. Faith
now is unnecessary, as the light of glory gives the human intellect a new
strength and capacity for seeing God face-to-face. While the Christian was a
wayfarer, he received the imprint of the indwelling Trinity as he shared in
God’s own life. Now in heaven that grace-life and possession of God
reaches its completion—the absolute completion is not achieved, however,
until the resurrection of the body. The divine persons give Themselves to
the beatified in a profound union far surpassing that of the indwelling of
the Trinity experienced here below.
This
life of heaven is still the Christ-life, for just as we possess a share in
Trinitarian life here below as mediated by Christ, and exercise this
grace-life as structured by Him, so also in heaven is the mediation of
Christ present. In the words of Rahner, "One always sees the Father
through Jesus. Just as immediately as this, for the directness of the vision
of God is not a denial of the mediatorship of Christ as man."14
And not only does the humanity of Christ unite the blessed to
God, but also, in some way, to the whole of creation. This is merely a
completion of what is begun here below, namely, the union with Christ in His
humanity establishing the Christian in a special relationship with God, with
other men, and with the whole of creation. We have a glimpse, therefore, of
the fullness of life which members of the heavenly Church possess.
The
heavenly Church, as St. Thomas says, is the true Church.15
The Church of this earth and the Church of purgatory are,
each in its own way, reaching out in loving hope for the heavenly Jerusalem.
Vatican II puts it very simply: "The Church, to which we are called in
Christ Jesus, and in which we acquire sanctity through the grace of God,
will attain her full perfection only in the glory of heaven."16
The
members of the heavenly Church can help us in living our life of grace until
we too share its fullness with them. Their power of intercession on our
behalf is but another ramification of the communal aspect of Christianity.
We are meant to help others grow in Christ. We, in turn, are intended by God
to receive aid from others—yes, from members of the heavenly Church, as
well as from those with whom we dwell here below.
Not
only can we be aided by the saints’ intercession, but the example of the
canonized saints can also be of great value to us. They have concretely
proved that full holiness is possible. Such an inspiration is of real worth
when we are tempted to think that Christian sanctity in its higher degrees
is impossible of attainment. Moreover, the canonized saints, in their
diversity, teach us that there are many authentic versions of Christian
holiness. They can be innovators in showing us that there are numerous
possibilities in assimilating the mystery of Christ, although the basic
assimilation remains the same for all Christians of all times. In the
opinion of Rahner this is one of the chief roles the canonized saints exert
in the life of the Church.17
NOTES:
14Karl Rahner,
Theological Investigations, Vol. III (Baltimore: Helicon, 1967), p. 44.
15 Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, In Ad Ephes., c. 3, Lect. 3.
16Second Vatican Council, Constitution on the Church, No.
48.
17Cf. Karl Rahner, Op. cit., pp. 100-101.
26 Years Ago
Cling to Me
May
13, 1993
Jesus: My dear child, if
you stay close to Me, then I live in you and you live in Me. I am He Who
created you and I love you with such an intensity that you will never know. My
words are your truth. You must abide in My heart in all things. There is no
room for doubt. My ways are steadfast, direct, and without error.
You must stay rooted in Me to ward off
the power of the evil one. His grip is paralyzing and crippling. His power is
stronger every day.
When you live in Me, I am in your heart
and he has no power over Me. I am your God. I am your true lover. I want to
protect you. I want to guard you from this force. Stay rooted firmly in Me and
he will have no power.
I am He Who comforts you. My hand is upon
you. Hold tight to Me, My child. My eyes are fixed right on you. You are My
most precious child. I love you as no other can. My arms are about you. My
tenderness surrounds you. My love is in your heart. You go not alone. I walk
with you.
I share every aspect of your life with
you. Cling to Me, feel My presence. It is warm and secure within your chest.
There is no room for fear, for I cast out fear and bring you comfort and joy.
end of May 13, 1993
R. Faith – knowing the Plan
of the heavenly Father –
Reality as it is
through the eyes
of God the Father –
Believing without seeing.
Seeing the Big Picture –
Hope – Knowing our ever
evolving relationship
with God and others –
developing in this plan –
We were created to be
more and more in the
image of God and to go
to our true home in
heaven when we die –
And to hope for this and
to live our lives to help
others to get to heaven –
Love – more and more love in
Him – love of God, love
of others, love of self –
loving God, ourselves and
others as we grow
supernaturally in our
loving capacity and
He loves and operates
in us –
This is reality –
John 3: 16
For this is how God loved the world:
he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him
may not perish
but may have eternal life.
R. God is love and in Him is no
darkness.
Colossians 1: 15-20
He is the image of the unseen
God,
the first–born of all creation,
for in him were created all
things
in heaven and on earth:
everything visible
and everything invisible,
thrones, ruling forces,
sovereignties, powers—
all things were created through
him
and for him.
He exists before all things
and in him all things hold
together,
and he is the Head of the Body,
that is, the Church.
He is the Beginning,
the first–born from the dead,
so that he should be supreme in
every way;
because God wanted all fullness
to be found in him
and through him
to reconcile all things to
him,
everything in heaven
and everything on earth,
by making peace through his
death
on the cross.
Jesus: I love you
I love you
I love you
Let go –
Open your hearts –
I want to live and
dwell and love
in your heart –
May 5, 2019
Act of consecration to the
Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Lord Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock, I consecrate myself to
Your most Sacred Heart. From Your pierced Heart the Church was born, the
Church You have called me, as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates,
to serve in a most special way. You reveal Your Heart as a symbol of Your
love in all its aspects, including Your most special love for me, whom
You have chosen as Your companion in this most important work. Help me
to always love You in return. Help me to give myself entirely to You. Help
me always to pour out my life in love of God and neighbor! Heart of Jesus,
I place my trust in You!
"Dear Blessed Virgin Mary, I consecrate myself to your maternal
and Immaculate Heart, this Heart which is symbol of your life of love.
You are the Mother of my Savior. You are also my Mother. You love me with
a most special love as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates,
a movement created by your Son as a powerful instrument for the renewal
of the Church and the world. In a return of love, I give myself entirely
to your motherly love and protection. You followed Jesus perfectly. You
are His first and perfect disciple. Teach me to imitate you in the putting
on of Christ. Be my motherly intercessor so that, through your Immaculate
Heart, I may be guided to an ever closer union with the pierced Heart of
Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock.
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)
Excerpt from Blue Book 11
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