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.

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.

Messenger: The study becomes that of a son living according to the Father’s will.

Father Carter writes in his book Response to God’s Love about slavishly dependent parties.

Each person is uniquely created by God. Each person has a responsibility to develop his own personal uniqueness according to God’s plan. One that deviates from the plan of the Creator causes tremendous problems for oneself and for others.

We are one body in Him.

In the reign of the Sacred Heart, all will come serving Him in a very high level of living in His will.

There will be no persons over others who will be trying to possess these others to get them to do God’s will or trying to get them to do their wills.

Freedom is given to man. He has the free will to choose God’s will or not.

In the reign of the Sacred Heart, there will not be any slavishly dependent relationships.

All power will be under His feet and they will serve willingly.

Reference 1 Corinthians 15:20-28.

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.

Messenger: All authority will be under His feet.

Let us look at the Bible.

There is the story of Adam and Eve. The devil enters, tempting Eve to do her own will as opposed to God’s. Adam likewise does not obey God’s will.

The Father creates a creature to follow His Plan, but wants the person’s deep love and service to do God’s will, for the ideal situation is that the son serves the Father without the Father having to tell the son. The Son Himself wants to do the will of the Father.

Authority comes under His feet.

All who act in authority act in the Father’s name.

All in authority should be most pure.

God gives a free will, God desires free service according to His will. This is the love He wants.

Would it be love, if those under were controlled?

Would it be love, if those under were forced?

Jesus speaks: I want you to have a deep desire to serve Me and My Father in great freedom. He who serves Me serves My Father in heaven. For in the end... and I quote My word:

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.

Messenger: The son serves the Father, not the Father Who serves the son, but the Father loves the son and gives him his free will.

Adam and Eve sinned doing their own wills. The whole human race is tainted by the sin of Adam and Eve and weakened in their tendency to do God’s will, willingly.

When children are being raised, it is necessary to teach about obedience and free will.

A baby must be taught about the Fourth Commandment.

No one should pay for someone else’s bad mood.

Power is a funny thing. A person can be forced to give away his power by a controlling dictate and, because they feel controlled, seek another outlet to feel in control again. This may be a damaging abuse used to alleviate the control of the parent, boss, or any other person unjustly controlling another.

The son who wishes to serve the Father according to the Father’s will does so willingly.

Those in authority do not seek selfish, possessive ways of receiving false power and control. Those underneath subject themselves to the other willingly because they realize it is God’s will for them.

A person in a family is under the head or father by God’s design.

So, too, a person in charge of a community likewise lives to serve as the Good Shepherd served His flock to His death on the cross. Such a person is still subject to the heavenly Father.

A good son always serves the father. The father being one who is like Christ, who laid down His life for His flock.

The study of the rosary is a study of the New Adam and the New Eve, the ones who lived in the Father’s will, the ones who served and said, "Not my will but Thine be done", the ones who gave their free wills to God’s service.

Messenger: One can observe the compliance of Jesus to the Father’s will in this picture. For the New Adam hangs in loving surrender to His death on the cross. The New Eve stands beneath. Her every desire was to serve the Father and do His will. This she did more perfectly than any human person.

THE PIETA

Messenger: We see the picture of Christ in Mary’s arms under the cross. Again the picture shows the Son and how He lived to serve the Father’s will. We see a lifeless Body of the Son in the arms of the Mother in complete surrender. Where would the Mother go?

Mary said, ‘You see before you the Lord’s servant, let it happen to me as you have said.’

Messenger: The New Adam, the New Eve.

The all-perfect Holy Sacrifice.

A Son Who gave Himself completely to the Father.

A Son Who died to please the Father and serve Him.

A parent teaches the child about obedience.

A person in authority sets down the laws designated by the Father.

The authority of many in today’s world has been corrupted, for they use it for their own personal gain.

If we are to proceed in the ways the Father wishes, to the perfect garden where the son serves the Father with a highly dedicated will, all will have to seek the will of the Father and strive to live their every breath according to His plan.

Question for married couples and others in intimate relationships:

Q: How do I feel when you tell me you love me?

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