Mary has requested that the daily message be given each day to the world. It is read nightly at the prayer service from her Image Building in Clearwater, Florida, U.S.A. This is according to her request. All attempts will be made to publish this daily message to the world at 11 p.m. Eastern time, U.S.A. We acknowledge that the final authority regarding these messages rests with the Holy See of Rome.

June 9, 1999

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.

From China, Indiana - A Message from Jesus

Jesus speaks: PRAY FROM JUNE 11, 1999 -12:00 NOON TO JUNE 14, 1999 - 12:00 NOON.

PRAY THE SHEPHERDS OF CHRIST PRAYERS AND GO TO MASS.

PRAY THE ROSARY - UNITED AS A BODY.

CONSECRATE YOUR HEARTS.

The following Imprimatur applies only to the Morning Offering and not to the message above or below.

Morning Offering

Imprimatur: Most Reverend Daniel E. Pilarczyk
Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati
January 22,1997

Jesus speaks: Love, I want love, My apostles.

You must model your lives after the Virgin Mary.

You must obey Me.

This ends the 108 day novena, it ends actually on the Feast of the Immaculate Heart Saturday, June 12, 1999.

On June 19, 1999, I wish you to have your hearts focused on the world and My Sacred Heart.

I wish prayer June 11, 12 and 13. I wish these three days to continue into June 14. There will be perpetual adoration in China, Indiana, for 72 hours. Please pray fervently from noon on Friday the Feast of My Sacred Heart until Monday June 14, 1999, at noon. I want perpetual prayer, making reparation to Our Hearts for the offenses against Them. Tell God you are sorry as a human race for being so sinful. Tell Him you are sorry you have offended God. Unite all your moments to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass being celebrated around the world. Join in the new 108 day novena that begins June 13, 1999. Be united with the core chapter in China, Indiana, on June 13, 1999, at 12:00 noon for hours of prayer that last most of the afternoon. They pray as a body, a large group of apostles, on the 13th of each month for the priests and the Church and the world. Be united wherever you are: in Singapore or Africa, in California or Florida, in Rome or Medjugorje. Please pray as a body during this period June 11, 1999 - June 14, 1999, noon to noon for the priests, the Church and the world. Pray for peace. Consecrate your hearts to Our Hearts. Please pray the Shepherds of Christ prayers  in the prayer manual and the rosary. Also please pray the Holy Spirit Novena I have given and use the rosary meditations if you can. Most importantly, pray the Shepherds of Christ prayers and the rosary. Prayer packets will be passed out in China, Indiana. All are encouraged to pray by the 6:20 p.m. prayer format. You can find this on the Internet. June 11, 1999, and June 12, 1999, June 13, 1999, and June 14, 1999.

All will be strong apostles praying for your priests, your Church and your world.

You will be one in the consecration and united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

This is most powerful, praying for the coming of the Holy Spirit and that very soon My Sacred Heart will reign and the Heart of My Mother will triumph.

Consecrate every place at which you pray to Our Hearts.

Consecrate you homes and places of employment to Our Hearts.

April 12, 1999

Jesus speaks: I wish a card to be circulated extensively. All that is necessary to consecrate a place to My Heart and My Mother's Heart is that the people wish to do so and say that they consecrate the place and the people that dwell there to Our Hearts. It is understood that you are entrusting people who live or come there to the care of Our Two Hearts. Pictures or statues of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart should be displayed somewhere in the dwelling. Some persons, if not all, should spend time in devotion to the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart before the pictures, daily if possible. This consecration should be renewed daily if possible.

I wish all who receive this message to circulate this material so that the whole world will be consecrated to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

Shepherds of Christ Ministries
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Jesus speaks: I love you so much. I want devotion to Our Hearts, especially before the Blessed Sacrament.

Pray for 3 urgent intentions and all Shepherds of Christ intentions.

I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU.

BE KIND, pray to be likened to Us.

Mary is your model.

Model your life after My Life.

I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.

Be a peacemaker.

Love those that are bowed down, be a light to the world. You must love, you cannot judge and criticize harshly. You must discern and seek the truth in all things.

I AM the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE.

LIFE IS IN ME.

Q: How has our love for each other helped us to grow in love for others?

June 9, 1999 - Second Message - From June 2, 1999 Second Day of the Month of the Sacred Heart

From Message of May 26, 1999

Jesus speaks: On June 13, 1999, I ask you begin the novena as directed on February 23, 1999, for 108 days observing all feasts as listed. I ask that this novena be circulated to all interested parties so they will join.

I ask all who can to pray morning and night at 6:20. Many will not be able, some will, the request is for those who are able. I wish all in the Shepherds of Christ Movement who are apostles to try to gather at 6:20 every day, preferably p.m., if a choice must be made, and pray the novena. If this is impossible, pray 6:20 a.m., if possible. If it is impossible at either 6:20 service, pray the novena sometime during the day. Great grace is being granted to your earth from this novena.

I ask that Masses be said at 6:30 a.m. and p.m. for these intentions of consecrating the Church and the world to the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart, for unity as never before, and for all other intentions I just listed.

Great grace is granted to all parishes having Shepherds of Christ Prayer Chapters before the tabernacle.

February 23, 1999

A City on a Hill Shines to the World

February 23, 1994 5:30 a.m.

Jesus speaks: I am the light of the world. A city on a hill will shine to the world. You at the Center will be this city when you are filled to the brim with the love of Jesus. What power, what might, to have each person a personal spouse of Jesus Christ! This is the light to the darkened world. The love of Jesus radiates from the very being of those who love Him. What light when all together are lifted by His love abounding deep within their breasts!

February 23, 1999, 5:30 a.m.

Jesus speaks: Five years later I ask this of you, My beloved ones.

First: Every day to pray to Me as your Spouse, consecrating your hearts to Jesus and Mary and praying the prayer "A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the 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.

Jesus speaks: I ask My Shepherds of Christ apostles and as many as possible to pray in this way for this novena praying for the special coming of the Holy Spirit.

Think of yourselves as My spouse dwelling in Our pure and holy Hearts united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

FOR THIS NOVENA:

I ask you to gather at 6:20 every evening.

I ask you to recognize yourself as a body and realize others are praying with you at 6:20 p.m.

I STRESS it is important for as many as possible to pray at 6:20 p.m. If you cannot pray at 6:20 p.m., I ask you to stop if possible and reflect as I will indicate later, but as many as possible are asked to pray. You are a body praying. You must feel this unity praying to your God as the people of My Movement, the Church and the world. You are gathered in one place, the world dwelling in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

Begin the novena June 13, 1999, this will continue until I tell you to stop.

It will be important to notify as many as possible by phone of the beginning of this novena. If you have not been notified you must begin whenever you become aware of this novena.

It will follow as indicated:

Holy Spirit Novena and Rosary Novena Chart

Find today's date below, all dates are for the year 1999, then determine the Day, 1 through 9, and period, I or II, then follow the Holy Spirit Novena for the given day and period.

* Feast Days and Special Days: (see dates above)

• June 24, 1999, The Birth of St. John the Baptist
• June 29, 1999, St. Peter and Paul
• July 16, 1999, Our Lady of Mount Carmel
• July 22, 1999, St. Mary Magdalene
• July 26, 1999, St. Joachim and Anne
• July 31, 1999, St. Ignatius of Loyola
• August 6, 1999, Transfiguration of the Lord
• August 8, 1999, St. Dominic
• August 15, 1999, Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven
• August 22, 1999,Queenship of Mary
• August 27, 1999, St. Monica
• August 28, 1999, St. Augustine
• September 8, 1999, The Birth of the Virgin Mary
• September 14, 1999, The Holy Cross
• September 15, 1999, Our Lady of Sorrows
• September 21, 1999, St. Matthew

All Sundays are important.
All 5ths, 13ths, and 17ths are important.
All First Fridays and First Saturdays are important.

Jesus speaks: The Florida Center will pray non-stop this way until I direct differently. I also ask the Morrow Center to pray uninterruptedly which means someone should be there every night. China will pray every day in China at 6:20 p.m. except on Sundays. They are asked to pray at 6:20 p.m. if possible in the car.

This day of holy prayer on Sunday by My handmaids of China will please Me very much.

Think of being united with all others praying as a body, as were the Apostles at Pentecost. Pray for the special coming of the Holy Spirit. Think of yourself as My spouse dwelling in the pure Heart of Mary and in My Sacred Heart. Feel the deep union of your hearts in Me.

Jesus speaks: I ask you to print here the format used in Florida for the 6:30 p.m. prayer service.

6:30 p. m. Prayer Service

(as from the October 17, 1998 Daily Message)

1. You are to begin praying:
   Dear Father in the name of Your Son Jesus, in the Holy Spirit, through the powerful intercession of the Virgin Mary, with all the angels and the saints and the souls in purgatory, we join in one mind and one heart and ask the Holy Spirit to come to all the world in a special way, especially to our priests. We pray all prayers for the priests and the renewal of the Church and the world and for the Shepherds of Christ intentions. By the precious Body and Blood of Jesus we cast out Satan far from this place, our families, the Shepherds of Christ Movement, the Church and the world. We ask the Blood of Jesus be spread on us, the Shepherds of Christ Movement, the Church and the world. We beg for grace and mercy for the world and wish to make reparation to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. We give our hearts to Jesus and Mary with all gathered here in love. We wish to be forgiven for offending one another. We love You God, help us.
2. Sing A Song from Jesus.
3. Then begin the prayers of the Good Shepherd (Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual).
4. Then I ask you to sing The Rosary song and begin the rosary. I wish if possible that you use the Rosary Books and the Rosary Aves, but the important thing is to pray the prayers and the rosary at 6:30 p.m., if possible. (Rosary mysteries need to be according to the Rosary Novena.)
5. Read the Ten Commandments.
6. Read the Daily Message for the day.

Jesus speaks: If it is impossible for some apostles to follow this schedule at certain times, I ask them to stop at 6:30 p.m., give their hearts to Jesus and Mary with everyone in love, ask for the special coming of the Holy Spirit and ask for grace for the priests, and the renewal of the Church and the world. If time permits, consecrate the Movement, the Church and the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary and ask that the Blood of Jesus be spread on the Movement, the Church and the world.

I ask the apostles that cannot pray as indicated on certain days of the novena at 6:20 p.m. to:

1. Say the Holy Spirit Novena during the day and include the intentions as indicated.
2. Say the Shepherds of Christ Prayers and the appropriate mysteries of the rosary.

On June 13, 1999, begin the Joyful Mysteries. On Thursday, China and Florida must listen to the appropriate mysteries. I wish them strictly to follow the Rosary Novena and all others to follow the appropriate mysteries on the appropriate day.

Some have not followed the appropriate day as was indicated for the Rosary Novena so I ask that on February 25, 1999, you begin this schedule for the Rosary Novena. All must follow directly everyday. Rosaries on Sunday afternoons will be out of the scheduled order to accommodate Florida and China on Thursday nights. Therefore you must say the appropriate mysteries on Sunday at 6:20 p.m. if possible.

I ask you as a body to pray the Rosary Novena as follows:

Rosary Novena and Holy Spirit Novena Chart

Perpetual 27 days in petition, and 27 days more in thanksgiving, starting from June 13, 1999.

Petitions: For all the Shepherds of Christ intentions and all your personal intentions.

* Feast Days and Special Days: (see dates above)

• June 24, 1999, The Birth of St. John the Baptist
• June 29, 1999, St. Peter and Paul
• July 16, 1999, Our Lady of Mount Carmel
• July 22, 1999, St. Mary Magdalene
• July 26, 1999, St. Joachim and Anne
• July 31, 1999, St. Ignatius of Loyola
• August 6, 1999, Transfiguration of the Lord
• August 8, 1999, St. Dominic
• August 15, 1999, Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven
• August 22, 1999,Queenship of Mary
• August 27, 1999, St. Monica
• August 28, 1999, St. Augustine
• September 8, 1999, The Birth of the Virgin Mary
• September 14, 1999, The Holy Cross
• September 15, 1999, Our Lady of Sorrows
• September 21, 1999, St. Matthew

All Sundays are important.
All 5ths, 13ths, and 17ths are important.
All First Fridays and First Saturdays are important.

Jesus speaks: I ask that all apostles adhere fervently to this novena. This is for all intentions of the Shepherds of Christ including intentions given to Father Carter, John and the list I give to my messenger.

I ask all apostles to fervently say the Holy Spirit Novena daily and the Shepherds of Christ Prayers.

This message is for my apostles in the Shepherds of Christ and others wishing to follow it.

It is important you stay united everyday in your Morning Offering and see yourselves as one body pleading for the Church and the world and the priests. Consecrate the hearts of all in the Movement, the Church and the world to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart of Mary and pray that the Blood of Jesus will be spread on the Movement, Church and the world all through the day.

Cast the devil into hell and pray to the angels, especially St. Michael and your guardian angels, to protect you.

Guard this message, circulate it to the whole Movement by mail and by fax as soon as possible.

Phone coordinators should call beginning today.

Please print the Holy Spirit Novena here once again and see to the printing of the Holy Spirit Novena booklet immediately. Often sing the song, Come Holy Spirit and the A Song from Jesus. Sing, My shepherds, sing. We love you to sing the old songs, especially Holy God, We Praise Thy Name.

The following Imprimatur applies to the Holy Spirit Novena only and not the message above or below.

Holy Spirit Novena

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This book is published by Shepherds of Christ Publications, a subsidiary of Shepherds of Christ Ministries, a tax exempt religious public charitable corporation organized to foster devotion to the Two Hearts, the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

For additional copies, contact us:

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Rev. Daniel J. Mahan, S.T.L.
Censor Librorum
Archdiocese of Indianapolis

Imprimatur:

Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B.
Archbishop of Indianapolis

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First Printing: November, 1998

DAILY NOVENA PRAYERS

Opening Prayer

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Dear Father, we come to You in the name of Jesus, in union with Him in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, in the Holy Spirit. We come to You united to the Child Jesus of Good Health and the Infant of Prague. We come to You in the perfect, sinless Heart of Our Mother Mary, asking her powerful intercession, uniting ourselves to her holy tears. We come to You united to all the angels and saints, and the souls in purgatory.

Prayer for Holy Spirit

We pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on us, to be baptized by the Holy Spirit, that He will descend mightily on us as He did on the Apostles at Pentecost. That the Holy Spirit will transform us from fear to fearlessness and that He will give us courage to do all the Father is asking of us to help bring about the Reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart. We pray for the Holy Spirit to descend mightily on the Jesuits and the Poor Clares on the Shepherds of Christ leaders and members and on the whole Body of Christ and the world.

Protection by the Blood of Jesus

We pray that the Blood of Jesus will be spread on us, everyone in our families, and the Shepherds of Christ Movement, that we will be able to move steadfastly ahead and be protected from the evil one.

Healing

We pray for healing in body, mind, and soul and generational healing in ourselves, in all members in our families, and in all members of the Shepherds of Christ Movement, the Jesuit Community, the Poor Clares, the Body of Christ, and the world.

Prayer for Strength and Light

We adore You, oh Holy Spirit. Give us strength, give us light, console us. We give ourselves entirely to You. Oh Spirit of light and grace, we want to only do the will of the Father. Enlighten us that we may live always in the Father's will.

Eternal Spirit fill us with Your Divine Wisdom that we may comprehend more fully insight into Your Divine Mysteries.

Give us lights, Oh Holy Spirit that we may know God. Work within the heart, the spiritual womb of the Virgin Mary, to form us more and more into the image of Jesus.

Prayer to Be One with God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit

We long for You, Oh Spirit of Light, we long to know God, we want to be one with Him, our Divine God. We want to be one with the Father, know Him as a Person most intimately. We want to know the beloved One, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and live and dwell in Him at all times, every moment of our lives. We want to be one with You, Oh Spirit of Light, that You move in us in our every breath.

Prayer to Be One in Jesus

Let us experience life in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, so we can say as Saint Paul, "I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me...." Let us live, united to the Mass, all through the day being one in Him. Let us be able to love and know in this elevated state of oneness with our God. We long for Thee, oh beauteous God, we love You, we love You, we love You. We praise You, worship You, honor You, adore You, and thank You, our beloved God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Prayer to Dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary

We seek to be one in God, to live and dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, our little heaven on earth, to experience life in the all perfect, pure, sinless Heart of our Mother. We want the Holy Spirit to move in us and to be united to Jesus as the Bridegroom of our souls and be a most perfect sacrifice offered to the Father at every moment as we unite in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass around the world to help in the salvation of souls.

Prayer for the Holy Spirit and His Gifts

Come Holy Spirit, come, come into our hearts, inflame all people with the fire of Your love.

Leader: Send forth Your Spirit and all will be reborn.
All:  And You will renew the face of the earth.

We pray for the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, we ask for perfection in our souls to make us holy, holy souls likened to God.

Dear Holy Spirit, we give ourselves to You soul and body. We ask You to give us the Spirit of Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, and Fear of the Lord.

Prayer for the Word Alive in Our Hearts

We know, dear Holy Spirit, the Word in His human nature was brought forth within the womb of the woman. We pray that His word will be brought forth in our hearts as He lives and dwells in us. We want the incarnation to go on in our lives. Dear Holy Spirit, work in us.

Little Prayers to the Holy Spirit

Dear Holy Spirit, help us not to be ignorant or indifferent or weak, help us to be strong with the love of God.

Dear Holy Spirit, please pray for our needs for us.

Dear Holy Spirit, help us to respect God and to avoid sin. Help us to live in the Father's will.

Dear Holy Spirit, help us to keep Your Commandments and to respect authority. Help us to love all things as You will us to love them. Help us to want to pray and always serve God with the greatest love. Help us to know the truth. Help us to have the gift of faith, hope, and love. Help us to know what is right and what is wrong.

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

Oh Lamb of God, Who takes 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.

First Period
Meditations Nine Days

1. Romans 8:14-17
   
   All who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God; for what you received was not the spirit of slavery to bring you back into fear; you received the Spirit of adoption, enabling us to cry out, 'Abba, Father!' The Spirit himself joins with our spirit to bear witness that we are children of God. And if we are children, then we are heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ, provided that we share his suffering, so as to share his glory.
2. Romans 8:5-9
   
   Those who are living by their natural inclinations have their minds on the things human nature desires; those who live in the Spirit have their minds on spiritual things. And human nature has nothing to look forward to but death, while the Spirit looks forward to life and peace, because the outlook of disordered human nature is opposed to God, since it does not submit to God's Law, and indeed it cannot, and those who live by their natural inclinations can never be pleasing to God. You, however, live not by your natural inclinations, but by the Spirit, since the Spirit of God has made a home in you. Indeed, anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
3. 1 John 4:12-16
   
   No one has ever seen God, but as long as we love one another God remains in us and his love comes to its perfection in us. This is the proof that we remain in him and he in us, that he has given us a share in his Spirit. We ourselves have seen and testify that the Father sent his Son as Saviour of the world. Anyone who acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him and he in God. We have recognised for ourselves, and put our faith in, the love God has for us. God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him.
4. 1 John 4:17-21
   
   Love comes to its perfection in us when we can face the Day of Judgment fearlessly, because even in this world we have become as he is. In love there is no room for fear, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear implies punishment and no one who is afraid has come to perfection in love. Let us love, then, because he first loved us. Anyone who says 'I love God' and hates his brother, is a liar, since whoever does not love the brother whom he cannot see can love God whom he has not seen. Indeed this is the commandment we have received from him, that whoever loves God, must also love his brother.
5. 1 John 4:7-11
   
   My dear friends, let us love one another, since love is from God and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. Whoever fails to love does not know God, because God is love. This is the revelation of God's love for us, that God sent his only Son into the world that we might have life through him. Love consists in this: it is not we who loved God, but God loved us and sent his Son to expiate our sins. My dear friends, if God loved us so much, we too should love one another.
6. Acts of the Apostles 1:1-5
   
   In my earlier work, Theophilus, I dealt with everything Jesus had done and taught from the beginning until the day he gave his instructions to the apostles he had chosen through the Holy Spirit, and was taken up to heaven. He had shown himself alive to them after his Passion by many demonstrations: for forty days he had continued to appear to them and tell them about the kingdom of God. While at table with them, he had told them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for what the Father had promised. 'It is', he had said, 'what you have heard me speak about: John baptized with water but, not many days from now, you are going to be baptized with the Holy Spirit.
7. Acts of the Apostles 1:6-9
   
   Now having met together, they asked him, 'Lord, has the time come for you to restore the kingdom to Israel?' He replied, 'It is not for you to know times or dates that the Father has decided by his own authority, but you will receive the power of the Holy Spirit which will come on you, and then you will be my witnesses not only in Jerusalem but throughout Judea and Samaria, and indeed to earth's remotest end.'
   
   As he said this he was lifted up while they looked on, and a cloud took him from their sight.
   
8. Acts of the Apostles 1:12-14
   
   So from the Mount of Olives, as it is called, they went back to Jerusalem, a short distance away, no more than a Sabbath walk; and when they reached the city they went to the upper room where they were staying; there were Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Jude son of James. With one heart all these joined constantly in prayer, together with some women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
   
9. Acts of the Apostles 2:1-4
   
   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.

Second Period
Meditations Nine Days

1. John 14:21-31
   
   Whoever holds to my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me; and whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I shall love him and reveal myself to him.'
   
   Judas-not Judas Iscariot-said to him, 'Lord, what has happened, that you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?' Jesus replied:
   
   Anyone who loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him and make a home in him. Anyone who does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not my own: it is the word of the Father who sent me. I have said these things to you while still with you; but the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and remind you of all I have said to you. Peace I bequeath to you, my own peace I give you, a peace which the world cannot give, this is my gift to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid. You heard me say: I am going away and shall return. If you loved me you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. I have told you this now, before it happens, so that when it does happen you may believe.
   
   I shall not talk to you much longer, because the prince of this world is on his way. He has no power over me, but the world must recognise that I love the Father and that I act just as the Father commanded. Come now, let us go.
2. John 17:11-26
   
   I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep those you have given me true to your name, so that they may be one like us. While I was with them, I kept those you had given me true to your name. I have watched over them and not one is lost except one who was destined to be lost, and this was to fulfil the scriptures. But now I am coming to you and I say these things in the world to share my joy with them to the full. I passed your word on to them, and the world hated them, because they belong to the world no more than I belong to the world. I am not asking you to remove them from the world, but to protect them from the Evil One. They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. Consecrate them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world, and for their sake I consecrate myself so that they too may be consecrated in truth. I pray not only for these but also for those who through their teaching will come to believe in me. May they all be one, just as, Father, you are in me and I am in you, so that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe it was you who sent me. I have given them the glory you gave to me, that they may be one as we are one. With me in them and you in me, may they be so perfected in unity that the world will recognise that it was you who sent me and that you have loved them as you have loved me.
   
   Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they may always see my glory which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
   
   Father, Upright One, the world has not known you, but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me. I have made your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and so that I may be in them.
3. I Corinthians 15:20-28
   
   In fact, however, Christ has been raised from the dead, as the first-fruits of all who have fallen asleep. As it was by one man that death came, so through one man has come the resurrection of the dead. Just as all die in Adam, so in Christ all will be brought to life; but all of them in their proper order: Christ the first-fruits, and next, at his coming, those who belong to him. After that will come the end, when he will hand over the kingdom to God the Father, having abolished every principality, every ruling force and power. For he is to be king until he has made his enemies his footstool, and the last of the enemies to be done away with is death, for he has put all things under his feet. But when it is said everything is subjected, this obviously cannot include the One who subjected everything to him. When everything has been subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the One who has subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all.
4. Revelation 3:1-3,12,16-19
   
   'Write to the angel of the church in Sardis and say, "Here is the message of the one who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: I know about your behavior: how you are reputed to be alive and yet are dead. Wake up; put some resolve into what little vigor you have left: it is dying fast. So far I have failed to notice anything in you behavior that my God could possibly call perfect; remember how you first heard the message. Hold on to that. Repent! If you do not wake up, I shall come to you like a thief, and you will have no idea at what hour I shall come upon you.
   
   Anyone who proves victorious I will make into a pillar in the sanctuary of my God, and it will stay there for ever; I will inscribe on it the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem which is coming down from my God in heaven, and my own new name as well.
   
   '...but since you are neither hot nor cold, but only lukewarm, I will spit you out of my mouth. You say to yourself: I am rich, I have made a fortune and have everything I want, never realising that you are wretchedly and pitiably poor, and blind and naked too. I warn you, buy from me the gold that has been tested in the fire to make you truly rich, and white robes to clothe you and hide your shameful nakedness, and ointment to put on your eyes to enable you to see. I reprove and train those whom I love: so repent in real earnest...'
5. Revelation 5:9-14
   
   They sang a new hymn: You are worthy to take the scroll and to break its seals, because you were sacrificed, and with your blood you bought people for God of every race, language, people and nation and made them a line of kings and priests for God, to rule the world. In my vision, I heard the sound of an immense number of angels gathered round the throne and the living creatures and the elders; there were ten thousand times ten thousand of them and thousands upon thousands, loudly chanting:
   
   Worthy is the Lamb that was sacrificed to receive power, riches, wisdom, strength, honor, glory and blessing.
   
   Then I heard all the living things in creation-everything that lives in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and in the sea, crying:
   
   To the One seated on the throne and to the Lamb, be all praise, honor, glory and power, for ever and ever.
   
   And the four living creatures said, 'Amen'; and the elders prostrated themselves to worship.
6. Revelation 7:14-17
   
   I answered him, 'You can tell me, sir.' Then he said, 'These are the people who have been through the great trial; they have washed their robes white again in the blood of the Lamb. That is why they are standing in front of God's throne and serving him day and night in his sanctuary; and the One who sits on the throne will spread his tent over them. They will never hunger or thirst again; sun and scorching wind will never plague them, because the Lamb who is at the heart of the throne will be their shepherd and will guide them to springs of living water; and God will wipe away all tears from their eyes.'
7. Revelation 12:1-8
   
   Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant, and in labor, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth. Then a second sign appeared in the sky: there was a huge red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, and each of the seven heads crowned with a coronet. Its tail swept a third of the stars from the sky and hurled them to the ground, and the dragon stopped in front of the woman as she was at the point of giving birth, so that it could eat the child as soon as it was born. The woman was delivered of a boy, the son who was to rule all the nations with an iron scepter, and the child was taken straight up to God and to his throne, while the woman escaped into the desert, where God had prepared a place for her to be looked after for twelve hundred and sixty days. And now war broke out in heaven, when Michael with his angels attacked the dragon. The dragon fought back with his angels, but they were defeated and driven out of heaven.
8. Revelation 14:1-7
   
   Next in my vision I saw Mount Zion, and standing on it the Lamb who had with him a hundred and forty-four thousand people, all with his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. I heard a sound coming out of heaven like the sound of the ocean or the roar of thunder; it was like the sound of harpist playing their harps. There before the throne they were singing a new hymn in the presence of the four living creatures and the elders, a hymn that could be learnt only by the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the world. These are the sons who have kept their virginity and not been defiled with women they follow the Lamb wherever he goes; they, out of all people, have been redeemed to be the first fruits for God and for the Lamb. No lie was found in their mouths and no fault can be found in them.
   
   Then I saw another angel, flying high overhead, sent to announce the gospel of eternity to all who live on the earth, every nation, race, language and tribe. He was calling, 'Fear God and glorify him, because the time has come for him to sit in judgement; worship the maker of heaven and earth and sea and the springs of water.
   
   Revelation 19:7-8
   
   '...let us be glad and joyful and give glory to God, because this is the time for the marriage of the Lamb. His bride is ready, and she has been able to dress herself in dazzling white linen, because her linen is made of the good deeds of the saints.'
9. Revelation 21:1-10
   
   Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared now, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride dressed for her husband. Then I heard a loud voice call from the throne, 'Look, here God lives among human beings. He will make his home among them; they will be his people, and he will be their God, God-with-them. He will wipe away all tears from their eyes; there will be no more death, and no more mourning or sadness or pain. The world of the past has gone.'
   
   Then the One sitting on the throne spoke. 'Look, I am making the whole of creation new. Write this, "What I am saying is trustworthy and will come true."' Then he said to me, 'It has already happened. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give water from the well of life free to anybody who is thirsty; anyone who proves victorious will inherit these things; and I will be his God and he will be my son. But the legacy for cowards, for those who break their word, or worship obscenities, for murderers and the sexually immoral, and for sorcerers, worshippers of false gods or any other sort of liars, is the second death in the burning lake of sulphur.'
   
   One of the seven angels that had the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came to speak to me and said, 'Come here and I will show you the bride that the Lamb has married.' In the spirit, he carried me to the top of a very high mountain, and showed me Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down out of heaven from God.
   
   Revelation 22:20
   
   The one who attests these things says: I am indeed coming soon.
   
   Amen; come, Lord Jesus.

Scriptural quotations are taken from The New Jerusalem Bible, Doubleday & Co.

Jesus speaks: I want joy in your hearts, I want fearlessness. Replace fear with hope.

Do not fear. Live to help lead souls to My Heart. Pray for the consecration of the Church and the world to My Heart.

You are MY SPOUSE!!!

LIVE AS MY SPOUSE --

Holy, spotless, I love you so My holy virgins, I love you so much.

6:00 p.m. prayers must be shortened.

Begin with the Infant of Prague Novena. Centers should say all of this, others may say a shortened version.

At 6:00 p.m. pray as follows: "I consecrate all priests, the Movement, the Church and the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary and spread the Blood of Jesus on them."

"I pray for grace for priests reading the newsletter and all its needs, including finances."

"I ask for protection of St. Michael and guardian angels."

"I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you in love, uniting to all my brothers and sisters in the Movement."

You are My city.

A City on a Hill Shines to the World

February 23, 1994 5:30 a.m.

Jesus speaks: I am the light of the world. A city on a hill will shine to the world. You at the Center will be this city when you are filled to the brim with the love of Jesus. What power, what might, to have each person a personal spouse of Jesus Christ! This is the light to the darkened world. The love of Jesus radiates from the very being of those who love Him. What light when all together are lifted by His love abounding deep within their breasts!

I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. My life is the life inside that cannot be contained. It is bursting and budding forth. My life is the real life. To possess the life of Christ within your breast! Such power! I am the city set on a hill that will stand united and shine to this world. You at this Center will be this city. You will be the true Center that places the mark on this world.

The love of Christ, abounding deep within the breasts of all, will be the power and the might. Pray the Prayer for Union with Jesus. I will operate in the hearts of all there and minister to My sick world. I am the Heart of Jesus. I am on fire with love of each and every soul. When My love is found in all the hearts there, the light of God will shine to this world!

You are the city, set on a hill, that shines to the darkened world. I will light the world with the love of Jesus that shines in the hearts of those who are fed there. My light is so bright. My power is endless. You are the light to the dark world. You contain the mighty medicine to bring My sick ones to Me. You will bring so many back to Me and My intense love, burning so brightly for all!

I am the power. I am the might. He who abides in Me will have the light of life. I give Myself to you that you will live. You will radiate My presence from your very being. My light is the brightest light. I will live in the hearts of all who come to you for their feeding. Enkindle in them the love for My most Sacred Heart. It is on fire for love of you. It cannot be contained. It will live in all hearts who come to you to be fed.

You are the key to enkindle this burning love of Jesus in the hearts of so many. Many will know Jesus through your love of Me. Read these letters every day for I am truly speaking to you here. I love each child so dearly and want to have an intimate union with that child. Teach all about the burning love of Jesus. Read My messages with your heart on fire so you can tell all of My ardent love for them.

I long to be close to them. I am a person. I am God, on fire for love of My people. Bring all to the ardent love of Jesus. Mary is by My side constantly. Where I am, she is there. She wants all to be led to My ardent, longing love. Teach all about My love. Fill them so they are overflowing in their hearts. This is the mighty medicine. It is My letter of intense, ardent love for My people.

I am truly here, little ones. I am Jesus, Son of the Living God. I will live strongly in the hearts of all who come to you. You will be the key. Focus on your intense love of Me. Read My letters as a cookbook for intimacy with Me. My love waits for each person and I tell you here how to be close to Me. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus on fire for love of you. I am longing for you to come and be with Me in silence. I will give you all you need.

I am the Alpha. I am the Omega. I am your all. I am God, one, true and magnificent, and I come to you with ardent love in Holy Communion and in the tabernacle. I am present, Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity. I am waiting. Our love affair waits and it depends on you. I am there and I am waiting. You keep us apart.

Tell them how I long for them and have all they need. The love of Christ will light their city. You will stand as the lighted city in darkness. My love will be that by which you light this dark world. Oh, such power, such might! The love of God will reign in the hearts of all you touch. You are My vessel to draw this world to the love of Jesus.

Read and study My letters and be taught about My ardent love. I am Jesus Christ and I am teaching you about My love on fire for all. Come and be powered by the hand of God. My love will rock the world off its rocker when it reigns in the hearts of those who come to you. I love you so! You are My beloved. I will use you to light My dark world. You will shine as candles in the darkest night and you will be the instruments I use to light their wicks. I am God and I love them so dearly!

This is My love for all. Power and might will shine forth on the land. I am the brightest light. Look into the light for the light. Look into the arms of Jesus. I will light this world through you. Alleluia. And the angels sang and the choirs of heaven were heard for the earth proclaimed the Love of Jesus. Alleluia

Jesus speaks: I ask you to sing the song: City of God, by Dan Schutte, S.J.

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