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.

July 19, 2001

 

Exodus 15: 1-6, 17-18

Song of victory

It was then that Moses and the Israelites sang this song in Yahweh’s honour:

I shall sing to Yahweh, 
        for he has covered himself in glory, 
    horse and rider 
        he has thrown into the sea. 
Yah is my strength and my song, 
to him I owe my deliverance. 
He is my God and I shall praise him, 
my father’s God and I shall extol him. 
Yahweh is a warrior; 
Yahweh is his name. 

Pharaoh’s chariots and army 
    he has hurled into the sea 
the pick of his officers 
    have been drowned in the Sea of Reeds. 
The ocean has closed over them; 
they have sunk to the bottom like a stone. 
Your right hand, Yahweh, 
    wins glory by its strength, 
your right hand, Yahweh, 
    shatters your foes,

You will bring them in and plant them 
on the mountain which is your heritage, 
the place which you, Yahweh, 
    have made your dwelling, 
the sanctuary, Yahweh, 
    prepared by your own hands. 
        Yahweh will be king 
            for ever and ever.

 

Isaiah 54: 5-14

 

For your Creator is your husband, 
Yahweh Sabaoth is his name, 
the Holy One of Israel is your redeemer, 
he is called God of the whole world. 
Yes, Yahweh has called you back 
like a forsaken, grief–stricken wife, 
like the repudiated wife of his youth, 
says your God. 
I did forsake you for a brief moment, 
but in great compassion 
    I shall take you back. 
In a flood of anger, for a moment 
I hid my face from you. 
But in everlasting love 
    I have taken pity on you, 
says Yahweh, your redeemer. 
For me it will be as in the days of Noah 
when I swore that Noah’s waters 
should never flood the world again. 
So now I swear never to be angry with you 
and never to rebuke you again. 
For the mountains may go away 
and the hills may totter, 
but my faithful love will never leave you, 
my covenant of peace will never totter, 
says Yahweh who takes pity on you.

The new Jerusalem

Unhappy creature, storm–tossed, 
    unpitied, 
look, I shall lay your stones on agates 
and your foundations on sapphires. 
I shall make your battlements rubies, 
your gateways firestone 
and your entire wall precious stones. 
All your children 
    will be taught by Yahweh 
and great will be 
    your children’s prosperity. 
In saving justice you will be made firm, 
free from oppression: 
    you will have nothing to fear; 
free from terror: 
    it will not approach you.

July 19, 2001 message continues

Messenger:     Remember Noah—God flooded the earth

                         Remember the rainbow

July 19, 2001 message continues

 

Isaiah 55: 1-11

 

Final invitation

Oh, come to the water 
    all you who are thirsty; 
though you have no money, come! 
Buy and eat; come, buy wine and milk 
without money, free! 
Why spend money on what cannot nourish 
and your wages on what fails to satisfy? 
Listen carefully to me, 
and you will have good things to eat 
and rich food to enjoy. 
Pay attention, come to me; 
listen, and you will live. 

I shall make an everlasting covenant 
    with you 
in fulfilment of the favours 
    promised to David. 
Look, I have made him a witness 
    to peoples, 
a leader and lawgiver to peoples. 
Look, you will summon a nation 
    unknown to you, 
a nation unknown to you will hurry to you 
for the sake of Yahweh your God, 
because the Holy One of Israel 
    has glorified you. 

Seek out Yahweh 
    while he is still to be found, 
call to him while he is still near. 
Let the wicked abandon his way 
and the evil one his thoughts. 
Let him turn back to Yahweh 
    who will take pity on him, 
to our God, for he is rich in forgiveness; 
for my thoughts are not your thoughts 
and your ways are not my ways, 
declares Yahweh. 
For the heavens are as high above earth 
as my ways are above your ways, 
my thoughts above your thoughts. 
For, as the rain and the snow 
    come down from the sky 
and do not return 
    before having watered the earth, 
fertilising it and making it germinate 
to provide seed for the sower 
    and food to eat, 
so it is with the word 
    that goes from my mouth: 
it will not return to me unfulfilled 
or before having carried out 
    my good pleasure 
and having achieved 
    what it was sent to do.

 

 

Romans 6: 3-11

You cannot have forgotten that all of us, when we were baptised into Christ Jesus, were baptised into his death. So by our baptism into his death we were buried with him, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father’s glorious power, we too should begin living a new life. If we have been joined to him by dying a death like his, so we shall be by a resurrection like his; realising that our former self was crucified with him, so that the self which belonged to sin should be destroyed and we should be freed from the slavery of sin. Someone who has died, of course, no longer has to answer for sin. 

    But we believe that, if we died with Christ, then we shall live with him too. We know that Christ has been raised from the dead and will never die again. Death has no power over him any more. For by dying, he is dead to sin once and for all, and now the life that he lives is life with God. In the same way, you must see yourselves as being dead to sin but alive for God in Christ Jesus.

 

July 19, 2001 message continues

Jesus speaks:    I come, I am the Holy One of Israel to set the
                              captives free. I give you the gift of
                              baptism. You are elevated, raised up.
                              You share in My Divine Life.

Messenger:    He imparts to us the greatest gifts, those
                            that are to help us attain everlasting
                              life.

                        I found out some interesting news from
                      Father Carter's sister today, she said Father
                          Carter's dad and mom were named
                             Mary and Joseph.

                     I thought that was very interesting. His life
                        was lived in trying to write so the
                         love of Jesus would be more alive in
                          men's hearts.

                     I saw the sun pulsating on a video over the Holy Spirit Center
                         when I introduced God's Blue Book,
                          and the Prayer for Union with Jesus.
                           It was April 17, 1994. This video which
                            majorly talks about the Eucharist
                             is available to you.

                        Jesus wants to be alive in the hearts of men.

                    This is the beginning of a new Era where
                            the Sacred Heart will truly Reign
                            in the hearts of men as never before.

                     God's Blue Books are love letters from Jesus.
                             These love letters lead men to a deeper
                                 love union with Jesus in the Eucharist.

                         The Power is in His Eucharistic Heart.

                         Here is a picture from the video of April 17, 1994.

July 19, 2001 message continues

Messenger:    Mary and Jesus appear in rainbow gown.

July 5, 2001
Jesus and Mary in rainbow gown

July 19, 2001 message continues

Messenger:    Every month the visions are more pronounced
                                on the building on the 5th for all to
                                 see.

Acts 10: 34, 37-43

Peter’s address in the house of Cornelius

Then Peter addressed them, ‘I now really understand’, he said, ‘that God has no favourites,

You know what happened all over Judaea, how Jesus of Nazareth began in Galilee, after John had been preaching baptism. God had anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and because God was with him, Jesus went about doing good and curing all who had fallen into the power of the devil. Now we are witnesses to everything he did throughout the countryside of Judaea and in Jerusalem itself: and they killed him by hanging him on a tree, yet on the third day God raised him to life and allowed him to be seen, not by the whole people but only by certain witnesses that God had chosen beforehand. Now we are those witnesses—we have eaten and drunk with him after his resurrection from the dead— and he has ordered us to proclaim this to his people and to bear witness that God has appointed him to judge everyone, alive or dead. It is to him that all the prophets bear this witness: that all who believe in Jesus will have their sins forgiven through his name.’

July 19, 2001 message continues

Messenger:    Oh the story of the salvation of man is
                                a wonderful story.
                         It begins:
                         Adam and Eve sin in the garden. The New Adam,
                                 the New Eve appear on the building to lead 
                                     us into a deeper love union.

                         God gives us Himself in the Eucharist.

                            Let us shout of the gifts given to us from
                                       our God.

July 19, 2001 message continues

Messenger:    The great delight I long to see is the consecrated
                               host in the hands of a holy priest.
                         I have that vision in my heart all the time.

                         I love Our Jesus in the
                                Eucharist so much.

July 19, 2001 message continues

Messenger:    I know great grace is released during
                         the Mass, I unite so deeply with
                             all the angels and saints.

                    See the priest on an altar elevated by
                                 steps and behind him, more
                                 steps leading up to the tabernacle.

                     He raises the consecrated host and
                           Chalice so high for us to see.
                     Often I see the aura around the host.

                      "Increase and Multiply, bring forth great
                                    fruit."

                        I hear Our Lord say this, He wants fruit
                                 for the kingdom.

                     A tree will bear great fruit
                                 when it is watered and cared for.

                     Today my heart burned after I received Him in the Eucharist.

                      I wanted this deep union with Him to last.
                      I cried because I was so happy, but torn
                           in my heart because, I knew He
                             soon would not be so deeply present to
                             me as He was when I received the Eucharist.

                     I see my sins and I know I have offended Jesus.
                             I see a slight glimpse, selfishness,
                              self-promotion, anger, I see how
                              these things offend the gentle Heart of
                               the Lord and how He paid for our
                                sins.
                     I see Jesus in others and how I hurt
                             Jesus when I do not treat them
                              with the love He desires.
                               He wants us to be loving to them.

                     We are so unloving to each other and so
                               blind we do not even see it.

                     We see them put Jesus on the cross.
                     We see them beat Him.

                      He gives Himself willingly.

                      They take Him to the slaughter.
                      He paid the price for our sins.
                       God spared Abraham's son.

                       Jesus suffered for us, so we would be
                                 saved.

                        God parted the Red Sea.

                         God gives us the gift of baptism.

                         God gives us Himself in the Eucharist.

                            How can we be so glum?

                          How can we be so filled with ingratitude?

                           Why are we so blind we do not even see?

                             See a little baby being baptized.

                             What a gift God gives us in baptism.

                               See the gift of the Mass.

Through Him, With Him and In Him

Messenger:    How can we not pray for our priests, they are
                         human men and they have such gifts
                          given to them. They are so important to
                           us and the Church and the world.

                   On the feast of St. Ignatius, Jesus gave this message to
                                         Father Carter.

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)

end of July 31, 1994 message given to Fr. Carter

July 19, 2001 message continues

Messenger:   I speak of the Resurrection.

                     I speak of the Glory.

                     I speak of the mysteries of the Rosary.

                     Oh the Mysteries are gifts given to us. We are so 
                           blessed to sit in silent contemplation and meditate
                           on the mysteries of the Rosary, on the mysteries of the
                           lives of Jesus and Mary.

                     Oh God your mysteries are gifts given to us to ponder
                                     and enjoy.

                     From Father Carter's Response to God's love.

Excerpt from Response to God's Love, by Father Edward Carter, S.J.

end of excerpt from Response to God's Love

July 19, 2001 message continues

Messenger:    Here is the picture of the back of the
                           Virgin Mary building, the building
                             God picked for this purpose.

 

1 Peter 1: 3-9

Introduction
The inheritance of Christians

Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and into a heritage that can never be spoilt or soiled and never fade away. It is reserved in heaven for you who are being kept safe by God’s power through faith until the salvation which has been prepared is revealed at the final point of time.

Faithfulness to Christ and love of Christ

This is a great joy to you, even though for a short time yet you must bear all sorts of trials; so that the worth of your faith, more valuable than gold, which is perishable even if it has been tested by fire, may be proved—to your praise and honour when Jesus Christ is revealed. You have not seen him, yet you love him; and still without seeing him you believe in him and so are already filled with a joy so glorious that it cannot be described; and you are sure of the goal of your faith, that is, the salvation of your souls.

 

July 19, 2001 message continues

Messenger:    Here is the side and front of building where Mary appears.

front view with Mary's Image

side view of Mary's Image Building

July 19, 2001 message continues

Messenger:    And God gives the priest the power to forgive
                             sins.

                     Oh God what a gift you give us in your
                             priests.

                     In the Priestly Newsletter II Book, Our Lord writes through
                         Father Carter to His beloved priests.
                     The Father wants this book to go to the priests.
                     It has all the Newsletters from September/October 1996 thru 1999/Issue 5.

                      The Father said the book circulated to the priests would
                         help to change the face of the earth.

                         We need funds for this, so it can go to 75,000
                                   priests.

                         Please pray for this or if you know anyone who would
                                     help us, please ask them.

                         These Newsletters are used by Bishops and priests
                                 and in seminaries all over the world.

Letters from Newsletter Issue 2000 #1

• Dear Father Carter,
  
      For years I have received Shepherds of Christ Newsletter; I do not know who put me on your mailing list, but I’m grateful to you both. Since I first began to receive the newsletter I have been assigned as the Director of Formation Advising for the Pontifical North American College in Rome.
  
      I would like to know if it would be possible to make a bulk order so that our seminarians could benefit from the newsletter as well. I will make sure they are distributed to our seminarians. At present we have about 200 seminarians and student priests on our campus, all eager for good spiritual reading!
  
      Please let me know if we can make an arrangement for the delivery of the newsletter here at the college.
  
      Please keep our faculty and seminarians in your prayers.
  
  Sincerely yours in Christ,

Rev. J. Mark Williams
Director of Formation Advising
Pontifical North American College
00120 Vatican City State

 

• Dear Rev. Father,
  
      Greetings to you from Dimapur. During the past year I have been receiving Shepherds of Christ newsletters from the diocese. Having found it very fruitful and enriching I thought that I would offer it to all my priests of this Province. Will it be possible for you to send me 140 books of your newsletters? I would like to offer it as a Millenium gift to all my priests. From the year 2000 I would like to get regularly the newsletters for our priests. I am sure the contents of the newsletters will inspire my priests to a life of renewal.
  
      Congratulations for the wonderful work you are doing. Yours in Christ, The Good Shepherd

Fr. Varghese Palathingal, sdb.
Provincial
Don Bosco Provincial House
Nagaland, India

end of letters from Newsletter

1 John 5: 1-6

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ 
is a child of God, 
and whoever loves the father 
loves the son. 
In this way we know 
    that we love God’s children, 
when we love God 
    and keep his commandments. 
This is what the love of God is: 
keeping his commandments. 
Nor are his commandments 
    burdensome, 
because every child of God 
overcomes the world. 
And this is the victory 
    that has overcome the world—
our faith.

The source of faith

Who can overcome the world 
but the one who believes 
    that Jesus is the Son of God? 
He it is who came by water and blood, 
Jesus Christ, 
not with water alone 
but with water and blood, 
and it is the Spirit that bears witness, 
for the Spirit is Truth.

Excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, by Louis J. Puhl, S.J.
 

136. THE FOURTH DAY

        A MEDITATION ON TWO STANDARDS

The one of Christ, our supreme leader and lord,
the other of Lucifer, the deadly enemy of our
human nature

PRAYER.   The usual preparatory prayer.

window at a former Jesuit Seminary

137. FIRST PRELUDE.   This is the history. Here it will be that Christ calls and wants all beneath His standard, and Lucifer, on the other hand, wants all under his.

138. SECOND PRELUDE.   This is a mental representation of the place. It will be here to see a great plain, comprising the whole region about Jerusalem, where the sovereign Commander-in-Chief of all the good is Christ our Lord; and another plain about the region of Babylon, where the chief of the enemy is Lucifer.

139. THIRD PRELUDE.   This is to ask for what I desire. Here it will be to ask for a knowledge of the deceits of the rebel chief and help to guard myself against them; and also to ask for a knowledge of the true life exemplified in the sovereign and true Commander, and the grace to imitate Him.
 

FIRST PART

THE STANDARD OF SATAN

140. FIRST POINT.   Imagine you see the chief of all the enemy in the vast plain about Babylon, seated on a great throne of fire and smoke, his appearance inspiring horror and terror.

141. SECOND POINT.   Consider how he summons innumerable demons, and scatters them, some to one city and some to another, throughout the whole world, so that no province, no place, no state of life, no individual is overlooked.

142. THIRD POINT.   Consider the address he makes to them, how he goads them on to lay snares for men and bind them with chains. First they are to tempt them to covet riches (as Satan himself is accustomed to do in most cases) that they may the more easily attain the empty honors of this world, and then come to overweening pride.

   The first step, then, will be riches, the second honor, the third pride. From these three steps the evil one leads to all other vices.
 

SECOND PART

THE STANDARD OF CHRIST

143.   In a similar way, we are to picture to ourselves the sovereign and true Commander, Christ our Lord.

144. FIRST POINT.   Consider Christ our Lord, standing in a lowly place in a great plain about the region of Jerusalem, His appearance beautiful and attractive.

145. SECOND POINT.   Consider how the Lord of all the world chooses so many persons, apostles, disciples, etc., and sends them throughout the whole world to spread His sacred doctrine among all men, no matter what their state or condition.

146. THIRD POINT.   . . .
 

end of excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

July 19, 2001 message continues

Messenger:    WE MUST PRAY FOR OUR PRIESTS,

                              THE CHURCH, AND THE WORLD.

                        WHY DOES JESUS APPEAR HERE?

Eucharist picture

July 19, 2001 message continues

Messenger:    Jesus wants us to form prayer chapters
                             praying for our priests, the Church and
                             the world.

                         Our priests are so important to us.

From our Eucharistic Center
China, Indiana

"MASS IN CHINA WITH FATHER CARTER"

John 20: 19-23

Appearances to the disciples

In the evening of that same day, the first day of the week, the doors were closed in the room where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews. Jesus came and stood among them. He said to them, ‘Peace be with you,’ and, after saying this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were filled with joy at seeing the Lord, and he said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. 

    ‘As the Father sent me, 
    so am I sending you.’ 

After saying this he breathed on them and said: 

    Receive the Holy Spirit. 
    If you forgive anyone’s sins, 
    they are forgiven; 
    if you retain anyone’s sins, 
    they are retained.

July 19, 2001 message continues

Messenger:    We may say how could they have crucified Jesus?

July 5, 2001

July 19, 2001 message continues

Messenger:    Look what we do to Jesus today.
                         Look how we treat Him.
                         He paid the price for our sins.
                         He should be honored and adored and loved in
                             the Eucharist.

July 19, 2001 message continues

Messenger:    We should see Jesus in each other and love
                         each other as brothers and sisters.
                     We need to admit our faults. We need to ask God to
                         give us grace to see our unloving, selfish
                         ways.
                     Jesus ascended into heaven and He left His
                         apostles behind to carry on His work.
                     How do we serve Him?
                     What are we doing for Christ?
                      Are we CHRISTIANS?
                         How do we treat each other?
                         Are we examples of how He wants us to be?
                         Do people see Christ in us?
                         Do we say we are holy, but are unloving, pushing
                                 to get ahead?

Messenger: Jesus asks us to pray for special things.
                Spread the Blood of Jesus, Consecrate their hearts,
                Cast the Devil far away, ask for the coming of the Holy
                     Spirit.              

                1)  Pray for urgent intention, a special priest 
                      and all involved.
                2)  Pray for Father Mike and Father Laurentin.
                3)  Pray for special Bishops and Archbishops
                4)  Pray for a special man and son,
                     and family and all involved.
                5)  Pray for all priests, Bishops and Cardinals
                     receiving the Newsletter.
                     Pray for grace for them to respond especially
                     by beginning prayer chapters.
                6)  Pray for the telephone operators.
                7)  Pray for communication and business in
                     general.
                8)  Pray for people to respond to fund letters.
                9)  Pray for money to circulate pictures.

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               10)  Pray for funds and grace.
              11)  Pray for all Shepherds of Christ apostles,
                     handmaids, servants.
              12)  Pray for availability Prayer manuals.
              13)  Pray for second priestly Newsletter Book.
              14)  Pray for documentary and all involved.
              15) Pray for special intentions of our donors.

 

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A Note from the President of Shepherds of Christ:

If you are devoted to Our Lady's rosary, we need your help! A member of our ministry is very devoted to Our Blessed Mother and he is helping to teach us how to grow our volunteer rosary makers. He estimates that we will need approximately $37,000 this year for beads alone! This translates into 22,339,500 rosary beads (yes, 22 million beads) assembled by volunteers into 378 thousand rosaries. The biggest users of our rosaries are the Catholic schools, who requested more than 100,000 rosaries last year.

Can you help us? I appeal to you for funds, whether large or small. We give because we love God, we love our Blessed Mother, and we love souls. We will accept gifts in many forms, besides cash or check donations, we can receive gifts directly in the form of stocks or property. These gifts can offer large tax advantages to the donor and increase the monetary value of the gift to us. Also if you can help assemble rosaries we need your help! If you can help us in anyway, please call or write us. God Bless!

I love you,
John Weickert

 

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A rosary can be used to pray for healing. It is powerful to unite our prayers to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and pray through the powerful intercession of Our Lady of Clearwater.

In times of trouble, for special prayer, we can use our rosary and pray as follows.

A Rosary for Healing or for Someone with Cancer.

On one Hail Mary bead or as many as you desire, say: 

May God heal                     through the intercession of Our Lady of Clearwater in union with the Mass and all the Masses being celebrated around the world.

Pray the Hail Mary or Hail Mary's then pray this after the Hail Mary.

May the cancer be uprooted and thrown into the sea.

We believe with all our hearts.

After the Glory Be — pray the following petition.

May                     be healed through the intercession of Our Lady of Clearwater if it be the holy will of God.

Note: You can look at Mary on the image rosary while you pray this rosary.

Note: The above section can be printed out from a PDF file, and you can pray the rosary looking at the pictures.

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December 17, 2000, Mary speaks: Help me to circulate my red and blue     Rosary Books and the     prayers my Son gives to you. This is a gift we give you. All the revelations are gifts given to you. My Son is the Light of the World. He is Jesus born in a stable. Will you help me? He is the Light of the World. Help me, help me     reach my children of the world.

To order your Rosary Book fill out this form and send your donation to Shepherds of Christ Ministries, PO Box 193, Morrow, Ohio 45152-0193, Telephone: (toll free) 1-888-211-3041 or (513) 932-4451.

Name: _________________      Street: _____________________________

City:   _________________      State:   _________________ Zip: ________

Donation price:  $7 A   $15 A   $25 A   $50 A   $100 A   Other $_____ A

 

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Messenger: CAN YOU HELP US BY GIVING US ROSARIES FOR THE SCHOOLS REQUESTING THEM?

Mary speaks: PLEASE MAKE WALTER'S ROSARIES. THE SCHOOLS WANT ROSARIES AND THERE ARE NOT ANY ROSARIES LEFT.

 

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Messenger: Pray for Ron, Fernando and Perry.

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