Come to China June 13, 2003
   

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Shepherds of Christ Ministries
P.O. Box 193
Morrow, OH 45152

Acts 20: 28-38

    ‘Be on your guard for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you the guardians, to feed the Church of God which he bought with the blood of his own Son. 

    ‘I know quite well that when I have gone fierce wolves will invade you and will have no mercy on the flock. Even from your own ranks there will be men coming forward with a travesty of the truth on their lips to induce the disciples to follow them. So be on your guard, remembering how night and day for three years I never slackened in counselling each one of you with tears. And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace that has power to build you up and to give you your inheritance among all the sanctified. 

    ‘I have never asked anyone for money or clothes; you know for yourselves that these hands of mine earned enough to meet my needs and those of my companions. By every means I have shown you that we must exert ourselves in this way to support the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, who himself said, "There is more happiness in giving than in receiving." ’ 

    When he had finished speaking he knelt down with them all and prayed. By now they were all in tears; they put their arms round Paul’s neck and kissed him; what saddened them most was his saying they would never see his face again. Then they escorted him to the ship.

    

John 17: 11-19

I am no longer in the world,
but they are in the world,
and I am coming to you.
Holy Father,
keep those you have given me
   true to your name,
so that they may be one like us.
While I was with them,
I kept those you had given me
   true to your name.
I have watched over them
   and not one is lost
except one who was destined to be lost,
and this was to fulfil the scriptures.
But now I am coming to you
and I say these things in the world
to share my joy with them to the full.
I passed your word on to them,
and the world hated them,
because they belong to the world
no more than I belong to the world.
I am not asking you
   to remove them from the world,
but to protect them from the Evil One.
They do not belong to the world
any more than I belong to the world.
Consecrate them in the truth;
your word is truth.
As you sent me into the world,
I have sent them into the world,
and for their sake I consecrate myself
so that they too
   may be consecrated in truth.

June 4, 2003     

Jesus speaks:     I call you to oneness.
  

Messenger:         Jesus gives us His Word.

                           The priest said at Mass, Jesus says the

                                Word will strengthen them.

                            Christ's prayer to the Father before His

                                bitter passion is that they will 

                                be one.

                            I give myself to Jesus,

                            I dwell in Jesus' Heart and Mary's Heart.

                            You dwell in the Heart's of Jesus and Mary and

                                we are one in Him.

                            We give ourselves in consecration to

                                the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

                            Jesus wants us to be one.

                            Mary said at Fatima that we should

                                Consecrate our hearts to the

                                Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
 

Jesus speaks:    And now My chosen ones I love you so much,

                                I want you to be one.
 

Messenger:        Here is the message I got in the First Blue Book —

                                written in the hands of a child.

Cling to Me

May 13, 1993 

Jesus speaks: 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 message

June 4, 2003 message continues

Messenger:        God gives me what I need.

                            I give myself to Him.

                            I give my all to Him.

                            It is really Him that takes over my

                                soul with a special grace and

                                I am given such deep love for

                                Him.

                            Oh Holy Spirit fill my heart with such

                                love for God.

                            I love God so much: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

                            I am in love, indeed, with the Divine

                                God.

                            He gives Himself to us in the Eucharist.

                            He outpours His grace to us.

                            Our Church is so awesome.

                            God outpours His life to us in the

                                sacraments.

                            God outpours His grace to us at Mass

                                in the Church.

                                I am a dry tree waiting to be filled

                            with His grace.

                                I love the grace God outpours to    

                            me and fills my soul.

A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul

     Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.

June 4, 2003 message continues

Messenger:        On June 12, 2003 we begin adoration in

                                China. We start at 12:00 with the

                                Mass and then the Eucharist is

                                exposed until June 14, 2003 when

                                Mass is celebrated again at 12:00

                                noon.

                            We pray united as a body and on the internet

                                on the 13th of every month 12:00 - 5:00.

                                You can usually tune in on the internet

                                radio www.sofc.org and pray with us.

                            I am Rita Ring and I will be in Florida

                                June 5, 2003 and China June 13, 2003.

                                Oh Lights of heaven! Dear God outpour your grace

                            to me. Oh Holy Spirit enlighten me, flood

                            my soul with the fire of your love and

                            impart to me wisdom to know You

                            more deeply and to know insight into the

                            Divine Mysteries.

                                Oh to write to you, I cannot express the

                            depth of love my soul knows. He imparts

                            knowledge of Himself to me imprinted on

                            my soul and I love Him so very deeply.

                            This is in me, I am in love with God,

                            I live to be one in Him more and more, it

                            isn't thoughts alone that lead to this state of

                            being in love with Him, it is the

                            grace He outpours to me and floods

                            my soul with knowledge of Himself.

                            On January 5, 2003, I received these messages

                                and this beautiful video from God. I

                                had been praying for something strong

                                that links me to the vision in Clearwater —

                                at 3:00 PM on the Feast of the Epiphany

                                I took this picture and received this video.

                                You can click on

January 5, 2003

June 4, 2003 message continues

Messenger:        On that day at 6:20 we played the 6:20

                                prayer tape with the Holy Spirit

                                Novena and the Shepherds of Christ Prayers with

                                Fr. Carter leading the prayers. Then

                                Jesus told me to talk. I spoke of

                                lightening and flashes are seen

                                during the video.

                            Here is an excerpt of what I said. This video will be

                                called the night January 5, 2003, Feast

                                of the Epiphany video.

This is only an excerpt from 

January 5, 2003 

Talk before the Rosary
Clearwater, Florida

Messenger:     I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you in love.  

Dear God the Father, in the name of Your Son Jesus in the Holy Spirit 
with all the angels and all the saints and the souls in purgatory, 
we come united in one mind and one heart 
united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.  

We ask you dear Father to look down upon us 
and to see the gratitude in our heart for this great gift that you have given to us. 

We ask that 
we can all dwell most intimately in the Sacred Heart and in the Immaculate Heart 
and that there will be 
this depth of being able to pray in such a way 
with purity that great grace will be released for the priests and the Church and the world. 

We are all here because we love You so deeply, dear God, 
and we love the souls of the earth.  

You can look at Jesus and look at Him here on the cross 
and you can think of how 
so many did not believe Jesus, 
and He is the Son of God. 
And so you look at the world today and you see the state that it’s in
and people cry out from all over the world in pain and they say
“dear God please help us, help us, help us” and God sends to us this great 
vision of the Blessed Mother on the building for 6 years 
as a sign that if we pray to God, 
if we pray for our priests and for the Church and for the world, 
that He will answer our prayers.  

And that is why I am here tonight 
and there is a Catholic priest that is listening the whole time 
while I am speaking and discerning the matter at hand. 
And we thank him 
for his cooperation and his help 
in all that he does to discern all the nursing home videos 
after he has looked at the fifteenth video 
and go to so much trouble to help us with all the messages every day 
and we really do appreciate his help 
and I want to say thanks. 
And I would like to pray for him 
and for his other ministries 
and I would like to pray for my brother too, 
he’s a priest and he helps us once in awhile.  

I ask God for the grace to fill me with the Holy Spirit 
to be able to speak in a way that we can be united so deeply in our hearts 
to help bring down grace for this world, 
to help us to be united in our hearts, 
and united to heaven in a special way, 
to know more fully after this night is over 
about life, 
for life is not as we know it here 
where it's me living here 
and you living there, 
but life is to have the fullness in Him.  

And that’s what it’s all about, 
that’s why Christ came down here and He died and He rose on the third day 
that we would be able to share 
in His life. 
It is that fullness of life for which I live 
and for which I speak of this night 
for the time is passing 
and we watch the cycle of life go in our lives, 
as the baby is born 
and in the next day the child is changing already 
in a way that we marvel at to see the child grow 
and we ourselves and our lives have are children and we watch them grow up 
(if you get to be as old as me) and then they leave 
and then the grandchildren come 
and then if you’re wise you’re thinking about what’s going to happen after you are gone from this earth, 
what provisions you think should be made, 
for your life here on earth and that hereafter.  

But Our Lord said in a message, 
and it was so beautiful, 
it was so absolutely beautiful because I heard Him say it. 
It’s like our life here is like a grain on the seashore, 
except we could count every grain of sand on the seashore. 
But the life that we will have in eternity
is, 
(I was a mathematician all my life) infinite. 
How well I know the concept of infinity 
and the concept of that which is countable 
and the life that is here on this earth 
if we look at it in that scope. 
And this is what Our Lord said, 
“One grain of sand as compared to a seashore but that in itself can be countable”. 
And the older you get the more you just watch it go by 
but we're so—not really attuned to 
how our Creator really is, 
because our Creator shows us the cycle of life 
as it progresses in our world 
and living up in Cincinnati 
I see the cycle of life very vividly.  

The trees come out in the spring 
and they blossom 
and they’re beautiful 
and they flower. 
And then summer has its day 
and then autumn comes 
and it’s almost like in a splendor that you cannot even comprehend
the beauty of each leaf 
shows forth in a brilliance 
as if each leaf on the tree is saying 
look at me and how gorgeous I am. 
And then in the days of November there are the leaves 
trodden on with wet 
and snow 
or whatever else. Sometimes becoming a nuisance when you go to put your Christmas lights out 
and the leaves have all hung on the bushes
which were once those glorious beautiful leaves of the day, 
in the autumn days 
that I know that Fr. Carter loved so much.  

And there was one writing that I got that was so wonderful, 
Fr. Carter and I were going to do a rosary somewhere 
and the day was just splendorous, 
it was fall 
and he loved fall. 
And to me it was as if I could see every leaf on the tree 
just unfold in this glorious beauty. 
And yet at night fall 
we cannot see those leaves at all. 
And yet they’re there in that beauteous splendor—
every leaf that was vividly seen in the light of the day 
has become hidden by the darkness of the night. 

Now I tell you to look at the Garden of Eden 
and the brilliance and the knowledge and all that they were given,
and something happened in that garden. 
And today I’ve been taken, 
not today but in this time 
of being this messenger, 
I’ve been taken to these places of ecstasy 
where God just outpours His grace to you 
and you see so vividly 
and it’s like every word in the Mass.  
You almost can’t stand it because it is so good 
to be so enlightened 
of the gloriousness and the wonder of God. 
And it is a time when God outpours His grace in an ecstasy 
in which you see so clearly those things of God 
and the joy of an enlightenment is far beyond anything that I can express to any person. 
Because it is that which I live for, 
I crave 
and I want 
and it all has to do with God’s grace, 
when He chooses, 
the initiator, 
the One Who outpours the grace on my soul 
and I’m sitting there waiting, 
thinking “Oh God, I would love to be 
so deeply united to You 
and to see so clearly.”  

And I remember explaining it one time, 
a long time ago, 
like a light like a shade that just goes up and then lets all the sunlight in. 
You know how it is when it thunders in the night 
and its dark as can be 
and then the light steels across the sky 
and you can just barely 
see those tops of those houses. 
And you say oh if I could just see that for another second 
I could see more clearly 
and then it’s gone just like a flash. 
And that’s how it is when the Lord grants me an enlightenment. 
It’s like it lasts as long as God want you to have it. 
But imprinted on your soul, 
if God grants it, 
is a knowledge of Him, 
that is the knowledge of which I speak as a messenger of God. 
It is the knowledge of knowing Him 
for which we were created 
that our soul craves 
that nothing here on the face of the earth 
can compare in any measure. 
It is knowing God 
and wanting that fullness of life 
that the soul can have 
if they love and serve the God 
here below.  

And so last week it’s like I saw myself in a casket 
and it was so freeing. 
Because I like get lifted up 
and I see God or I see Mary 
and then I come back down 
and you think you would go out there and tell everybody what they said 
and you come up to the first guy 
and they look at you and they say
‘God’s talking to you?” like that 
and then you start going back into your shell 
like a little turtle, 
oh I knew God, 
He told me to do this—
and it can be a priest, 
it can be a person 
that is very knowledgeable about God 
and that was the great grace that I was given to have Fr. Carter with me 
and the priest that helps me now 
and my brother too.  

Really what it is 
a lack of understanding, 
of knowing 
the magnificence 
of God 
because we are all blinded; 
we’ve been blinded because of the Garden of Eden. 
And as God so chooses 
He outpours His grace 
to us. 
And in those special moments where I’ve had ecstasies 
you’re taken to a place of knowing Him 
and that’s what I live for—
I mean at every moment that I live 
my desire 
is for that completeness 
and there’s a bittersweetness in my heart 
if I’m with my grandkids 
or with my family which I love so deeply. 
And you’re on this earth 
and that desire to help souls 
is everything 
because the more you identify with Christ 
and that is what this is all about 
is becoming more liken to Christ 
and more one with Him, 
but the more you identify with Christ 
the more that the desire of your very soul 
is to help the souls of the earth. 
How can you be one with Christ, 
Who the Almighty God, 
came to this earth, 
hung on a cross 
and gave Himself the way that He did 
and rose on the third day 
so that we could share in His life? 
How could you be more likened to Him 
and not have that thirst within your own soul 
to help the souls?
Because that is what Christ loves—
is to help every soul of the earth 
to be united to Him for all eternity.
So the more I go to the Eucharist 
the more I spend time before the tabernacle 
the more that I am united to Him in my every breath 
all through the day 
the more that that craving to help the souls 
of the earth is you. 
It’s not like thoughts in my head, 
“now wouldn't it be a nice thing to try to help to save the souls” 
I cry within my soul 
because I love 
the souls 
so much 
and I want those souls 
to have that fullness of life 
that I know to small degree 
from the ecstasies that I have been able to experience.  

It is a wonderful journey 
that God has given to us 
on this earth, 
a journey into the light, 
a journey of knowing Him 
which our souls were created for and seek. 
And whatever it is that we find 
(and I like cookies and things like that) that may give us the momentary satisfaction, 
nothing—be it sex, 
money, 
power, 
recognition—
can ever satisfy the soul 
created by God with a thirsting 
to have this fullness of life
that only God can give.  

And if you want to read the message in the Blue Book, 
I got up every night, 
I’d be waken 
and I’d sit down there and I would write those messages 
half asleep 
for as long as it took 
with no eraser marks 
and God’s message is in God’s Blue Book. 

All you have to do is be going around and you can get yourself caught up in the insurance, 
or you can get yourself caught up in the bills 
or you can get yourself caught up about what somebody did to you at work 
or whatever it is 
and you pick up God’s Blue Book 
and you read a line in there 
and you are in His world. 
There’s that lessening of that attachment, 
that fear that is in there 
that we can all have, 
just even fear of power over us 
or whatever it is 
because the more that you reach that age of enlightenment 
of knowing 
that God has all the power 
and that no individual person can really have power over you. 
If there is power over you because of structure 
it is God’s will 
that we have structure and people that are over us. 
And so we put everything into the right scope of things, 
like children have parents over them 
and that’s a wonderful thing. 
There definitely is structure 
in the way that God has created all of us; 
authority in the Church, 
and power comes from God 
through the Church, 
through the parents, 
through the priest.  

But you go back to the garden and you see Adam and Eve in the garden and you see that first story there, 
you know that she wanted to be likened to God, 
that wanting to raise up, 
and then you see the jealousy between Cain and Abel. 
And God is really telling us something in those stories in the beginning of the Bible 
and our human nature and its tendencies.  

We have a fallen human nature 
and we can become prideful 
and we can become jealous 
and we can become all of these things, 
get it—all of these things interfere with the oneness that God’s wants. 
And what is the oneness and you can look at it like a peek, 
up to right before the Passion of Jesus, 
He goes off to it and there’s the  prayer for you all 
and He’s saying, 
“Father that they would be one” 
and I’m not going to say this because I might not quote it exactly. 
I mean I can read John 17 
it’s in my soul, 
I know what oneness is 
because my whole mission ever since God has been given me messages 
is to understand more deeply what oneness is.  

Now let’s look at oneness—
we’ve got the Father, 
we’ve got the Son, 
and we’ve got the Holy Spirit, 
three persons in one God, 
the perfect community, 
perfection.

Two married people get married, 
they come from one family and another family 
but we’re all imperfect, 
so the more we interact with each other 
the more we see 
    “I don’t like you doing that”, 
and the other one says 
    “I don’t like you doing that” 
so then in love people that are married 
work together to become more one. 
Because they become more perfected 
as your heavenly Father is perfect. 
And so what happens 
we’ve got this whole mass of people 
and Fr. Carter’s says in Chapter 8 of Response to God’s Love 
so they end up getting married 
not to give love 
but to get love back for themselves 
and then 
why do they want to get a divorce? 
But do you know how hard it is 
to really stay married and to be one? 

And it’s not that every two people 
are willing to even work 
on their imperfections 
but to the ones that are willing to work on their imperfections 
or in any relationship that we have another person, 
it’s like a mirror where we grow up doing these things, 
like every time there is a light on if our father hollered at us 
we go into a frenzy 
and go around holler at our kids 
    “you left that light on” 
you know 
and this poor little kid, 
    “uhh that’s a bad thing” 
and so then they end up getting married and 
then 
their husband or wife doesn’t like the lights out 
and so they’re hollering at them and saying 
    “why are you turning all the lights off.” 
Two different families, 
two different ideas, 
two different ways of thinking that things are important.  

Like did you ever hear the story of the one person, 
she was putting a ham on for Thanksgiving or something, 
I don’t know, 
so she starts cutting off  the end of the ham. 
And her husband is standing there and he says 
    “why are you cutting off the end of that ham” 
and she says 
    “well I don’t know my mother did it”, 
so then she goes back 
and then she finds out that her grandma’s pan 
was too little 
and the hams never fit in the pan 
so she cut the ends off of the ham. 
So two generations down, 
here is a perfectly good ham 
and this lady is just cutting off the end 
and throwing it in the garbage 
and her husband is saying to her 
    “why are you cutting off that ham”.  

And that’s how it is, 
when we get in relationships with each other, 
it’s like a mirror. 
So we see some of these things, 
like going into a frenzy 
because the lights were left on. 
I remember with my dad, 
it was moving his scissors. 
He had this one scissors 
and we had five kids in the house 
and I think he knew the angle 
that the scissors was at 
because he would just want his scissors 
and didn’t wanting anybody even touching it, 
you know, 
it was his.  

And so you can get these ideas 
that those things that are really like laws 
are really important. 
And kids are drilled these things when they are little 
like just into the stage where it like goes into their core computer 
just because the Smith’s did it this way 
and then the Jones’ did it that way 
and then all this stuff is like drilled into there. 
But what it boils down to is what is Christ talking about in John 17 when He talks about oneness, 
what does it mean for a family to be one, 
all working together where the parents are really realizing the power of God, 
they are uniting in holy wedlock to bring forth children, 
fruit from heaven—which are going to recognize 
the fact that God is their Father 
and the whole world 
is going to live 
in the scope that they are recognizing God as the Father. 
And children are raised 
with the thoughts of pleasing their heavenly Father.  

Mary is our model, 
why is Mary on this building? 
Mary is telling us 
that she is sinless 
and the more that we are like Jesus and Mary, 
the New Adam and the New Eve, 
the more that we will have the peace and the happiness 
that we crave within ourselves.  

The payment is due on the
Virgin Mary Building.

We need money for the
English speaking priestly mailing.

Shepherds of Christ Ministries
P.O. Box 193
Morrow, Ohio 45152-0193

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