Prayer for Grace for our Country

Dear Father united to Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present, celebrated around the world, in the Holy Spirit. We offer up all we do united to the Mass. We unite in one mind and one heart as members of the mystical body of Christ, with Christ our head in the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary, through the powerful intercession of Mary with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory, and we beg for the saving grace, for our country, the United States. Please help us. We further pray for unity to always do the will of God in love. We spread the Blood of Jesus on the leaders and people of the United States and cast the devil into hell. We consecrate our country to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart and all our dioceses, and beg for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. God help us. We pray for our families, the priests, the Church and the world. In the Name of Jesus please hear us, we pray. We pray for our president and leaders. We pray that we are united as one nation under God to work together in love as God wants.  

                    R. Mary brought us Jesus. Jesus
                    was conceived in Mary's womb
                    through the power of the Holy Spirit.
                    The Holy Spirit is the Spouse of Mary.
                    Listen to a message Jesus gave
                    Fr. Carter in Tell My People –
  

From Tell My People by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

The Holy Spirit

Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people to pray daily to the Holy Spirit. They are to pray for an increase in His gifts. My people must realize that the Holy Spirit comes to transform them. The Spirit desires to transform you more and more according to My image. Those who are docile to His touch become increasingly shaped in My likeness. He performs this marvel within Mary's Immaculate Heart. The more one dwells in My Mother's Heart, the more active are the workings of the Spirit. The Spirit leads Mary to place you within My own Heart. In both Our Hearts, then, your transformation continues. The more you are formed after My own Heart, the more I lead you to the bosom of My Father. Tell My people all this. Tell them to pray daily for a greater appreciation of these wondrous gifts. I am Lord and Master. All who come to My Heart will be on fire to receive the gifts of the Spirit in ever greater measure! I love and bless My people!"

Reflection: The Holy Spirit is given to us to fashion us ever more according to the likeness of Jesus. And the more we are like Jesus, the more Jesus leads us to the Father. Do we, each day, pray to the Holy Spirit to be more open to His transforming influence? Do we strive each day to grow in union with Mary? The greater our union with our Mother, the spouse of the Holy Spirit, the greater is the transforming action of the Holy Spirit within us. 

Prayer: Come, Holy Spirit, fill us with your gifts of wisdom, understanding, knowledge, counsel, fortitude, piety, and fear of the Lord. As we dwell in the Heart of Mary, Your spouse, fashion us more and more according to the Heart of Jesus.   end of excerpt
 

                   (5) God is light and in Him is no
                    darkness. God wants to fill
                    our hearts and souls with
                    light and love, but we cannot
                    close ourselves down with
                    an obstinate will, that will
                    never budge and rule our
                    hearts with evil demons we
                    give into.

                        The love God has for us is
                    the ultimate mystery – He
                    loves us so much. This is
                    reality – this is truth – some
                    persons would rather destroy
                    themselves in hate than give
                    love to others.

                        God the Father created us in love
                    in the image and likeness of
                    God and He wants us to grow
                    in that image – life-long –
                    Spiritual birthing – being more
                    and more formed in the image
                    of Jesus, Son of God, through
                    the power of the Holy Spirit – in
                    the spiritual womb of Mary.
                    Mary is full of grace, Mary
                    is full of His life – In
                    Mary's Immaculate Heart there is
                    only purity. Mary was conceived
                    without sin – not a taint
                    of sin in Mary's Heart –
                    Mary, our Spiritual Mother,
                    Mary takes us to her Son, Jesus,
                    Mary is the Spouse of the Holy Spirit.
                    Mary is the obedient daughter
                    of the Father –
                    Mary, our Mother, her heart
                    our spiritual womb is
                    the singular vessel –
                    Mary, full of grace.

                (6) "By the power of the Holy Spirit" –
                    in the womb of Mary.
                    We are to be more and more
                    in the image of Jesus.
                    The incarnation goes on in us.

                (7) Jesus is the vine, we are
                    the branches. He gives us
                    baptism – we are incorporated
                    into Christ. We are to be
                    so one in Him.
 

Prayer for Union with Jesus

Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.

    I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.

    I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.

    When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.

-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994
 

                (8) From the Priestly Newsletter Book III by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

                (9) Colossians 1: 24

It makes me happy to be suffering for you now, and in my own body to make up all the hardships that still have to be undergone by Christ for the sake of his body, the Church,

Galatians 2: 19-20

I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me. The life that I am now living, subject to the limitation of human nature, I am living in faith, faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

                    R. We are on a spiritual journey
                    to grow more and more in the
                    image of Jesus.

                    The incarnation goes on in us.
                    We received so much in the
                    sacrament of baptism.

                    The supernatural virtues of
                    faith, hope and love.

                    Transforming union is our goal,
                        mystical marriage –

                    Especially religious are called to this
                    mystical marriage with Christ,
                    but priests and lay people too –
                    We need to know the mysteries
                    of the rosary more and more
                    through the inspiration of the
                    Holy Spirit to know the lives of Jesus
                    and Mary and the Plan of our heavenly
                    Father who created us.

                (10) Mary appeared in Clearwater,
                    Our Lady of Clearwater –
                    Our Lady of Fatima in the
                    Americas –
                    The Day after July 4th, Independence Day,
                    July 5th we said the first
                    5th prayer service at the site
                    21 years ago –

                    Mary appeared to me at an Old
                    Seminary July 5, 1994,
                    25 Years ago.

July 5, 1994

How the Rosary Meditations Began at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center

R. The message below is from June 16, 1994. Jesus told me to pray the rosary everyday with my children at the Center. When I received this message, there appeared little sparkling lights on my notebook, lights that are like the lights I saw surrounding Mary. I am including this message of June 16, 1994 at 3:15 a.m.

Jesus: Soon your burden will be lifted and you will feel some relief. You must be in constant prayer. Being with your children is a prayer for you. Come to Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center. You feel the Real Presence there. I will give you miracles there. Pray in the chapel with your children. They will become closer to Me through prayer as you spend time praying with them. You need simplicity in your life. Live only for love of Me.

Note: Little white lights on my notebook.
 

An Explanation of What Is to Follow

R. Jesus and Mary give me little insights into the Father's plan, little pieces of the puzzle. They do not tell everything that will happen. In order to understand the plan, we need to study all the messages and see how the Father's plan is unfolding. We are all threads of the great tapestry, all little puzzle pieces of the big picture, all so important to His plan.

We are all being called to spread His love to this world. Each soul is so important to His plan. I see now many events as they unfold. I see where Jesus and Mary told me many things and I at the time did not understand. I was told in June that I would see as never before.

On July 4, 1994 I prayed with the children in front of the Our Lady of Grace statue in the sanctuary. On July 5, I recorded our experiences. The statue of Mary continued to glow and come alive. Jesus and Mary told Fr. Carter to pray with the children and me on July 10.

I would see Mary glow. Several weeks later I realized she was appearing in the statue as "Our Lady of Light." She then began to say she was appearing as "Our Lady of Light." She would show me a parade of faces, her clothes would all turn glistening white, and her attire would change. She would appear as a parade of different ladies. Her veils and head coverings would change. She has appeared as many different Marys. Her emotions have varied, her age has varied and her clothing has varied. She has shown me her life in the rosary. In the rosary, we meditate on the lives of Jesus and Mary, from Their young lives to Their older lives, from Their sorrows to Their joys. She takes on many roles as our mother, her mantle forever covering and protecting us.

    

July 5, 1994 6:30 p.m.

The Statue Of The Sorrowful Mother Was Lit Up

R. I was told to go to Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center to pray the rosary with my children. There were people in the front of the church, so we decided to pray the rosary in the back before the Sorrowful Mother statue. I had the following vision at the end of the rosary.

The statue of the Sorrowful Mother was lit up as if she had fire around her. The light was very bright. Her whole gown was all-white, but the statue's gown is blue and pink. She was all aglow. It looked like the glow that comes off of a fire. Her face kept changing but remained totally sorrowful - the sorrow of an older woman. She was in such pain and sorrow! (It was hard to explain how she looked - extremely pained!) Her face looked as though she was in such pain that she could hardly bear it.

The vision remained like this for about ten minutes, having begun during the last Hail Mary of the Sorrowful Mysteries of the rosary. She was holding something - it was all bright white - the brightest light ever!      

                The Ascension

                (1) Mary said at Fatima until a
                    sufficient number of people
                    have given their hearts to
                    Jesus and Mary we won't have
                    peace in the world.

                Shepherds of Christ is to lead priests and
                    people to dwell in these pure and holy
                    Hearts of love – To have hearts
                    transformed in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary –
                    Christ wants to dwell in our
                    hearts. Christ wants our
                    hearts to be likened to His Heart.

                (2) Jesus gave me this Song.

                Song: Teach Me to Love with Your Heart

                    R. Fr. Carter, our founder said
                    Dwelling in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary
                        is our little heaven on earth.
                    We have spread the Consecration to
                    the Hearts of Jesus and Mary in
                    17 million Priestly Newsletters,
                    in Books and loose and
                    13 of Fr. Joe Robinson's books
                    to priests and hierarchy.

                (3) Message 25 Years ago given by
                        Jesus to Fr. Carter.

July 31, 1994

                 (4) October 13, 1994

The Birth of the Full Ministries
of the Shepherds of Christ

                (5) Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus

My dear fellow Associate Members,

Jesus is calling special apostles to join a new division of the Shepherds of Christ Movement. Here is a message from Jesus given to Father Carter:

    My beloved priest-companion, I am requesting that a new prayer movement be started under the direction of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I am asking for volunteers who are willing to pray before the Blessed Sacrament for one hour, twice-weekly. Members of the Shepherds of Christ prayer chapters, as well as others, are to be invited to join this movement.

    These apostles are to pray for the intentions I am giving you. For part of the hour they are to use the prayers of the Shepherds of Christ Associates Handbook. They may spend the rest of the hour as they so choose.

    I will use this new prayer movement within My Shepherds of Christ Ministries in a powerful way to help in the renewal of My Church and the world. I will give great graces to those who join this movement. The name, Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, is to be given to this movement.

    I am inviting My beloved Rita Ring to be coordinator for this activity.

    I pour out the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock.

    This is indeed a special calling for us to unite in one heart with His Eucharistic Heart and pray for the following intentions:

    1. For the spread of the devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary culminating in the reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of the Immaculate Heart.
    2. For the Pope.
    3. For all bishops of the world.
    4. For all priests.
    5. For all sisters and brothers in the religious life.
    6. For all members of the Shepherds of Christ Movement, and for the spread of this movement to the world.
    7. For all members of the Catholic Church.
    8. For all members of the human family.
    9. For all souls in purgatory.

end of Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart message

                        Excerpt from May 31, 1998 Rosary

Dear God the Father in the name of Your Son, Jesus Christ, in the Holy Spirit with all the angels and all the saints and the souls in Purgatory, through the powerful intercession of Our Lady in union with Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, we come to You as one body and from the depth of our hearts we ask You to cast Satan far from every person in this Movement and all the people in their lives, their families, the people at work, that he be kept far away from them, that they can do the work that we need to do to help to bring about the Reign of the Sacred Heart.  And so we cast Satan into the fires of hell, far from us and far from all of our families and far from all the members in the Shepherds of Christ Movement.  Amen.

                The Descent of the Holy Spirit

 (1) 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.

 

                    R. Come Holy Spirit possess my soul –
                    I do not wish to interfere with
                    the workings of the Holy Spirit
                    within me –

                    Come Holy Spirit and heal me – I want
                    to be healed and united in great
                    intimacy with God.

                    Come Holy Spirit Come

                    Sing: Veni Sancte Spiritus

                (2) Empty yourselves by singing
                    the Prayer for Union as
                    we do. (the whole prayer)

Song: Prayer for Union with Jesus

                (3) Say the Prayer of the Father.

May 16, 1998 - Prayer to the Father

My Father,

        With my whole heart I desire to consecrate the whole world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I wish with my whole being for the salvation of souls and that man live according to Thy Holy Will. I pray my Father that we may be one in You and Your Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit that we may intercede to You for this cause.

        It is this burning desire within my soul to spread the consecration to the far ends of the earth, that the cries of Your children are cries of glory and honor and adoration, praising God as their God.

        My Father, at this moment a soul hangs on the edge of death. For all eternity they will go to a place. It is not the plot of this soul as it trods this barren land to decide on the edge of death. You created us that we would grow in our oneness with God, that we would mature more and more in our image and likeness to God.

        And so My Father, I pray with every cell in my body for this earth. In the name of Your Son Jesus I consecrate all the souls of this earth to the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the Holy Spirit in union with the Holy sacrifice of the Mass with all the angels and saints and the souls in Purgatory.

        I beg You Father for mercy.
        I beg You Father for assistance.
        I beg You Father to help us to spread this consecration to the far ends of the earth.

        Please help us. We are helpless little ones coming in the heart of our Mother, bleeding from our wounds and our sins.

        Your Son, Jesus Christ, shed the last drop of His Blood for the salvation of mankind. We wish to unite in this sacrifice, sacramentally made present in the Mass all over the world at every moment. Help us to make reparation to You for the sins of men.

        Please my Father, help us. Held in the heart of Mary and the Heart of Jesus we come as the children of Eve to beg for the Reign of the Sacred Heart and the Triumph of Mary's heart. Look upon our love, Your shepherds in the Shepherds of Christ, our sacrifices and devotion to You Our Beloved Father. Come by the means of the Holy Spirit and sanctify us and make us whole, that we are one in Your Son Jesus, praying to You, Father, in the name of Your Son Jesus in the Holy Spirit united with all the angels and saints, in the heart of Mary. We beg for help for special intentions concerning the Movement. We beg for help to reach the Churches to give these prayers of Jesus to them, to reach the schools and the family. Help we cry as poor banished children of Eve. Help us Father to do this work the Good Shepherd has entrusted to us. Help us to be one in You that we act as intercessors to help this world to be turned to God as their God, loving, honoring and adoring Him as the Lord of Host is truly present on His throne.

        We are Your children Father, we implore You to answer our prayer.
        We love You, we worship You, we adore You, we thank you and we sing from the bottom of our hearts, Holy God we Praise Your Name. Alleluia
 

                (4) April 3, 2017

A Prayer for Grace and Holiness today
A prayer to work in love and holiness
 

John 16: 23

"If you ask the Father anything in my name,
    He will give it to you"

R. God wants our unity – we ask for this
    unity – that the Spirit of God fill
    us and help us to be holy –
    that we do not hold onto any of the deadly
    sins that block us from this unity –
    that the Holy Spirit can work in our souls,
    so we can be His instruments of love
    and peace and joy among our brothers.

We pray this heavenly Father in the name of
    Jesus who said ask in my name and
    it will be given to you.

    Let us experience the joy of unity and love
    on a supernatural level and know You
    our beloved God – more and more supernaturally.
    We want our hearts to be sanctified in
    our love and work so we are holy and
    pleasing to You God.

Come to us Lord and possess our soul.

We want to walk as God intends us
    to walk today in the plan of God,
    in the work He has called us to do today.

We know that we must cooperate with the grace
    You are giving us – now and today to
    bring unity and peace and love to this
    day as we serve to do the work – You are
    calling us in our vocation to do.

Dear Heavenly Father, hear our prayer,
    in the name of Jesus, we pray,
    we ask, heavenly Father for these
    graces necessary this day to
    bring peace, love and joy to
    our relationships and work – as You
    work in us.

    We seek perfection in our souls to be holy
    souls likened to You – in work
    and in play – to be holy in prayer –
    we invite You Holy Spirit to be
    the Guest of our soul.

We seek order in our lives, not disorder.

We beg for the virtues of faith, hope, love,
    prudence, temperance, fortitude, justice,
    and humility. We seek to be obedient
    to the will of God and live obedient to
    the will of God in love.

Come Holy Spirit Come into our hearts. Transform
    us from fear to fearlessness to serve
    You as You desire in our lives.

Help our actions to be for the glory and honor
    of God with the goal of these actions
    to one day be in heaven with Thee,
    our beloved God.

Heal our hearts and our bodies – Help
    us to have health of body now in
    this work you call us to do.

Instill in us a desire to want to only
    do the will of the heavenly Father
    and to walk in holiness and love.

We pray all these prayers heavenly Father,
    united to Jesus, in His name for
    grace and holiness today and always.

Help us to live by right reasoning in
    our lives – to have the truth
    in our every thought and to live
    in order as You operate in us
    in unity and love.

Come to me Lord and possess my soul.

We seek order in our lives – Your order
    to love in us, to help us to act as
    You desire, to have the thoughts
    that are in right reasoning and in
    Your order, Lord.

Give us the grace to use our faculties
    to love and serve You and do
    Your work.

Give us faith and right reasoning.

Help us to love and be just in our actions.

Help us to seek Your Divine Will and to
    perform those actions, which are actions
    pleasing to You in everything.

Come to us Lord and purify our consciences,
    our souls.

Help us to hope and love in Thee.

We seek heavenly vision – to see
    things through the eyes of
    the heavenly Father and to be
    perfected more and more in doing
    God's will in our lives.

We pray for the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit.

We pray for this purity in our souls –
    to live virtuously, to be perfected
    more and more and filled with the
    gifts of the Holy Spirit –
    Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel,
    Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety
    and Fear of the Lord 

    and to have the fruits of the Holy Spirit –
    charity, joy, peace, patience,
    benignity (kindness), goodness,
    long-suffering, mildness,
    faith, modesty, continency,
    and chastity.

We do not want the enemies to
    invade our thoughts, our
    actions, our lives –

We pray to give up ugly bad habits of the
    deadly sins –
    pride, greed, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth

We know on this journey we will
    experience sufferings and joys
    and we accept the struggles
    in life and ask You to help us,
    strengthen us in our lives to
    suffer and rejoice as You
    desire us to do in our lives.

We want to be a reflection of Your
    heavenly love – to be full of light –
    Your light in us. To operate in
    light and not darkness – IN You,
    our beloved God.

We want to follow in the footsteps
    of Jesus in giving love and
    light and unity to those
    we contact in our lives –

         

Prayer for Union with Jesus

Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.

    I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.

    I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.

    When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.

-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994

                (5) April 4, 2017

                 R. Dear Holy Spirit please come to me the
                Guest of my soul. Please pour
                into me Your virtues and gifts.

                    Dear Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwell in me.
                Please fill me with the
                supernatural gifts I received at
                baptism – that they may grow
                ever greater to know and love supernaturally.

                Dear Holy Spirit,

                    Please mold in me more and
                more the image of Jesus in my
                heart and soul.

           From Tell My People by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

                R. Help me to live my life praising
                and loving God in love and
                being as God wants me to be.
                Holy Spirit be the Guest of my soul.
                Come Holy Spirit fill me with the Spirit –
                Let the Spirit of God be in me.
 

John 16:12-15

I still have many things to say to you
but they would be too much for you
    to bear now.
However, when the Spirit of truth comes
he will lead you to the complete truth,
since he will not be speaking
    of his own accord,
but will say only what he has been told;
and he will reveal to you
    the things to come.
He will glorify me,
since all he reveals to you
will be taken from what is mine.
Everything the Father has is mine;
that is why I said:
all he reveals to you
will be taken from what is mine.

                Sing: Come Holy Ghost

                Sing: Come Holy Spirit

                R. Let the Light of Christ live
                in my soul. Amen.

                    We see when the Holy Spirit lives
                in us there is cooperation with
                the Plan of God, Our heavenly Father.
                The Holy Spirit brings unity to the soul –
                order in our hearts – direction
                according to and with God,
                our heavenly Father who
                created us in the image and
                likeness of God.

Genesis 1: 26-27

God said, ‘Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild animals and all the creatures that creep along the ground.’

God created man in the image of himself,
    in the image of God he created him,
    male and female he created them.

                R. The Holy Spirit opens our hearts and
                souls to God – so God can dwell
                in us more abundantly.

                    Come to me God and possess my
                soul –

                Sing: Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul.
                    Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.

                    We are imperfect – the Holy Spirit
                comes to transform our souls
                more and more in the image and
                likeness of Jesus –

                    Come to me Lord and possess
                my soul –

                    God fills us more and more abundantly
                with His life –

                Sing Song: I Love You Jesus

                R. The Holy Spirit is the Spouse of the
                Virgin Mary – perfect handmaid
                of the Lord.

                    The Holy Spirit wants to transform
                us more and more into the image of Jesus.
                We were created for this –

                    Oh God, we are so grateful for
                the sacrament of baptism and
                the other sacraments. We are
                so grateful for the Eucharist
                whereby, you feed the life you
                gave to us.

                    God gives us a sharing in
                His life in baptism and feeds
                us with the Body and Blood
                of Jesus in the Eucharist.

                Come to me Lord and possess my soul –               

1 Corinthians 3: 16

    Do you not realise that you are a temple of God with the Spirit of God living in you?

                R. We consecrate ourselves to God.
                We give ourselves to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
 

   

From the Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual

Holy Spirit Prayer

Come, Holy Spirit, almighty Sanctifier, God of love, who filled the Virgin Mary with grace, who wonderfully changed the hearts of the apostles, who endowed all Your martyrs with miraculous courage, come and sanctify us. Enlighten our minds, strengthen our wills, purify our consciences, rectify our judgment, set our hearts on fire, and preserve us from the misfortunes of resisting Your inspirations. Amen.

 

Act of consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
 and the Immaculate Heart of Mary

"Lord Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock, I consecrate myself to Your most Sacred Heart. From Your pierced Heart the Church was born, the Church You have called me, as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates, to serve in a most special way. You reveal Your Heart as a symbol of Your love in all its aspects, including Your most special love for me, whom You have chosen as Your companion in this most important work. Help me to always love You in return. Help me to give myself entirely to You. Help me always to pour out my life in love of God and neighbor! Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in You!

"Dear Blessed Virgin Mary, I consecrate myself to your maternal and Immaculate Heart, this Heart which is symbol of your life of love. You are the Mother of my Savior. You are also my Mother. You love me with a most special love as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates, a movement created by your Son as a powerful instrument for the renewal of the Church and the world. In a return of love, I give myself entirely to your motherly love and protection. You followed Jesus perfectly. You are His first and perfect disciple. Teach me to imitate you in the putting on of Christ. Be my motherly intercessor so that, through your Immaculate Heart, I may be guided to an ever closer union with the pierced Heart of Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock."

                (6) Sing: Holy God We Praise Thy Name

                (7) Sing: Come Holy Ghost

                (8) Sing: How Great Thou Art

                (9) Let go –

                    Let the Holy Spirit do what He wants
                        in your heart and soul.

                (10) From the Holy Spirit Novena

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.
 
 

                The Assumption of Mary

                (1) We see Mary giving herself,
                    totally to God. Mary said "yes".
                    Mary is the perfect handmaid
                    of the Lord –
                    As you go through the following
                        days – pray to the Holy Spirit to
                        help you give –
                        put God first –

                    Do everything putting God first.

                (2) Dear Mary, help me to grow
                    closer to you. I pray for
                    the grace to want healing
                    from my bad habits
                    and deadly sins –
                    To put aside pride and
                    jealousy, envy and put
                    God's will first in my life.

                (3) Mary help me to be truthful – to
                    look back and to deal with
                    hearts of the past in significant
                    relationships and not
                    project them on innocent others.
                    Help me to be pure and kind
                    and loving.
                    Help me to live virtuously.

                (4) Dear Holy Spirit transform me in
                    the heart of Mary, my
                    spiritual Mother.
                    Thank You God for my
                    spiritual Mother and
                    the spiritual guides you send
                    in my life. Help me
                    to be grateful for all
                    Your gifts –

                    Help me to love my neighbor
                    as myself.

                (5) I consecrate my heart to you
                        Mary.
 

Act of consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

                    R. I consecrate my heart to
                        You Jesus –

Act of consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

                (6) I love you Mary, I give
                    you my heart –
                    help me to be docile
                    and humble and
                    sorry for my offenses
                    against God and innocent
                    others.
                    Lead me to deeper and deeper
                    union with God and help
                    me to obey God's will for
                    my calling in my vocation
                    in my life.
                    Help me to have an attitude
                    of love and willingness
                    to do God's will in love.

                (7) Sing: Immaculate Mary

                (8) Sing: See the Eyes That Look at Mary

                (9) Sing song: Live This Day

                (10) Sing: Why Do We Hurt the Ones We Love

                Queenship of Mary

                (1) Mary's Message June 30, 2019

                (2) Sing: Hail Holy Queen

                (3) Mary's Message - from the Rosary of August 27, 1996

Mary:  I stood beneath the cross of my Son, and my Heart was in such pain for I saw Him before my eyes. I saw Him covered with blood. I saw Him die. My Heart, my children, my Heart to watch my Son, but my Heart, my Heart, how I suffered for my little children of the world that give in to this world and give up the love of my Son. O my little children of light, I give you this message. Carry this light into the darkness for your Mother Mary, for I stood beneath the cross and I cried. I cried for the little ones. I cried for the young ones, the ones that do not care and will lose their souls. How do I make you see for you will not listen to me? What can I do? I come. I appear. I beg. I plead. I give you these gifts from my Son, and you reject me. I do not deliver messages very often anymore for I have been ignored. The message is the same. You do not read the messages I have given to you. Please help me. Help the little children. I appear. I appear. I appear, and I am ignored. I stood beneath the cross, and I cried. I cried, and my Heart was in such anguish for my little children, for I am searching for them this day as I searched for the Child Jesus. Please, please help me. I cannot hold back the hand of my Son any longer. I am Mary, your Mother. I ask you to help my children. You are my children of light.  end of Mary's Message
 

                (4) Excerpt from Ascension Day, May 21, 1998

Jesus: Come out of your tombs, come out I call to you who slumber and sleep and do not hear the voice of the Mighty One. Your are like the dead that need to be raised. A trumpet horn blaring would not waken a man who is blind from birth. Only the Lord will unlock the minds of the senseless men, so foolish, but oh how I do indeed love them so.

                (5)  Christ the First Fruits

1 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.
 
 

                (6) Mary: Your heavenly Father has
                    permitted me to appear to this
                    visionary 25 years today July 5, 2019.
                    I am giving you this message. You
                    have been chosen by God for these
                    tremendous gifts given to you.
                    Be grateful – You have a duty
                    to love God and love your
                    neighbor as yourself –
                    It is God's law –

                    Satan is real – he goes as a
                    roaring lion looking for one
                    to tear apart and destroy
                    their spiritual journey through
                    his temptations to pride and
                    anger and jealousy.
                    Don't give into him – I am
                    your spiritual Mother, Mary,
                    Come to my Immaculate Heart –

                    Sing: Immaculate Mary

                (7) May 5, 1995

                (8) Excerpt from June 21, 1998 Rosary

                        The Annunciation (excerpt)

                (9) Excerpt from June 21, 1998 Rosary

                        The Visitation (excerpt)

Mary: I stood beneath the cross of my Son and I cried for the children of the world that will not come to my heart. He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. And He came into this world a little baby to show the children of the earth the way home.  end of excerpt

                (10) Jesus: I give you an open door.
                    It is the door that leads to
                    My Sacred Heart. I want you
                    to teach the world how important
                    it is to go to Mary's Immaculate Heart and
                    My Sacred Heart – to dwell in Our Hearts –

                    If you go to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
                        and are close to her – you will
                        be close to her Spouse the
                        Holy Spirit.

                    You must put God first in
                        all your actions.
                        It is My Law –

The Ten Commandments

                      Excerpt from June 21, 1998 Rosary

                      Birth of Jesus (excerpt)

9. R. How have we dressed our bodies? How have we dressed ourselves? How do we hold on to all the things that are not true in our life? For in the end the truth will come up and there will be no more lies. That is what it says in the Bible. There is Truth and then there is lies. How are we lying within ourselves to ourselves? And what happens in relationships when we interact with others and we have a problem. Do we run away and then we say, “It is their problem and I am right”. And then we go to another person and we have the same problem and we say, “It is their problem and I am right.” And yet in our hearts we are very lonely because we are holding on to these imperfect lessons that we were taught as children that were not the lessons that our Father in heaven would have taught us at all. And we go from one person to the other being lonely and not uniting in oneness as the Father has intended. Because we keep saying the same thing, “It is their problem and it is not mine.” And so maybe we have a temper. We go to this person. They did something wrong. They pressed one of my buttons. And we go to another one and they press the same button. Isn’t that funny. And they press the same button. And the next person and then I’m all alone. And why am I alone?

Jesus: I call you, My beloved ones to be one with each other in the Father’s family. I call you to look deeply inside yourself. I came into this world a bare Baby, stripped of any garments. Look inside your heart and your soul and pray to the Lord that you will be purified. That you will be able to unite in the deepest oneness with each other. Look beyond when you have experienced problems over and over and over again. Take them into prayer to the Almighty God, the all-powerful God and say, “God I want purity within my soul. Help me to shed all of those things that keep occurring in my life that keep me from oneness with my fellows.”

    I have given to you a great gift in the Shepherds of Christ Movement. You will operate as a well-oiled machine, each person here, learning more and more how to be likened to Me. You must be open. You must be soft and supple, not stiff and angry. And say, “they are right and I am wrong”. I am molding you in My special oven that you will be more and more likened to My Heart. Do you want to learn? Or do you want to be alone? Do you want to unite deeply to My Heart? Do you want to go to the deepest chamber of My Heart and unite in the deepest union with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for all eternity? Then you must be willing to shed the imperfections that lurk within the surface of your heart.  Pray for humility, grace and love. You are My holy ones. I am leading you into My Heart that you will be washed clean with My love, that you will proceed fearlessly into the world and you can say as St. Paul said, “It is no longer I who live, but He who lives in me.”. 

                    Song: Little Child

      Excerpt from June 21, 1998 Rosary

                      Birth of Jesus (excerpt)

Jesus: You are the Father’s holy family that He has called that will live in great harmony. Come and live by the rules that He gives to you. The Father’s will for you. The ten commandments and the Word of God.

                    Sing song: A Priest is a Gift from God

Galatians 5: 13-18

After all, brothers, you were called to be free; do not use your freedom as an opening for self-indulgence, but be servants to one another in love, since the whole of the Law is summarised in the one commandment: You must love your neighbour as yourself. If you go snapping at one another and tearing one another to pieces, take care: you will be eaten up by one another. Instead, I tell you, be guided by the Spirit, and you will no longer yield to self-indulgence. The desires of self-indulgence are always in opposition to the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are in opposition to self-indulgence: they are opposites, one against the other; that is how you are prevented from doing the things that you want to. But when you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.

 

Revelation 21: 1-4, 5-8

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.’ 

A Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

                    R. Mary too lived so simply with Jesus and Joseph.

                    A Mother in humility taking care of
                        her family.

                    Mary chosen by God. Mary immaculate,
                        Mary who bore the Christ child –

                    She, the Queen of the Angels, Queen of
                    heaven and earth – lived the quiet
                    humble life with her family. Mary
                    is the Mother of Jesus, Mother of
                    all God's children. Let us love Mary,
                    our Mother as the Lady of Light,
                    the Mother of Christ, Our Most
                    Perfect Mother, Immaculate –
                    Let us pour out our hearts of love
                    to our Mother that is our spiritual
                    Mother and loves us as a Mother
                    with perfect Motherly love.

                        Mary lived on this earth with
                    Jesus and Joseph and she pondered
                    things in her Motherly Heart.
                    The life they lived as the Holy Family
                    was hidden, simple, humble,
                    loving, true. Jesus was helping
                    Joseph and His Mother.

                        Mary did housework for the
                    family, Joseph labored for their life.
                    What mystery has God shown
                    us here of the Holy Family.
                    We are sons of God – Religious
                    are to teach others about living
                    for God. Jesus is the Light of the World.
                    They had the normal duties in the Holy
                    Family just to live. God shows
                    us peace, harmony, work, love,
                    obedience, unity, teaching,
                    work of duty in the household,
                    order in the Holy Family. We
                    are sons of God.

Luke 2: 52

And Jesus increased in wisdom, in stature, and in favour with God and with people.
 

                    R. Think of how God calls us to
                    the interior life – the life
                    within, hidden, united to God.
                    I am called to know, love and
                    serve God and help build
                    the Kingdom of God.

                    My hidden interior life should
                    advance more and more to a life
                    of holiness.

                        In religious orders, the religious
                    is called to a vow or promise of
                    obedience. Obedience really comes
                    under justice where one is
                    required and under this vow
                    pledges oneself to respect and
                    obedience to the Superior. In
                    religious orders the religious
                    binds themselves before God to
                    follow the order and obey the
                    superior in authority over them.
                    In religious orders it is a sin
                    to disobey the Superior and withdraw
                    and hold out so the religious can
                    do what they want and ignore
                    the bonds of obedience.

                (2) We see Christ being baptized by
                    John the Baptist in this mystery
                    and the heavens are thrown
                    open and the Holy Spirit is seen as
                    a dove – The voice of the Father
                    says "This is My beloved Son,
                    in whom I am well pleased".
                    Jesus obeyed His Father to
                    His death on the cross –
                    God the Father is pleased when
                    we are obedient to those in
                    religious orders over us.
                    This vow helps a person to
                    dedicate themselves in their
                    interior life to God and to
                    put God first in their exterior
                    actions – not do what they want
                    willy-nilly –

                        Pride is a deadly sin – whereby
                    a person puts themselves before
                    God, others and the Law
                    of God.

                        Obedience in religious
                    communities curbs this
                    weakness to live by the deadly
                    sin of pride, and disobey the first
                    commandment of God, putting God
                    first in all our exterior actions.
                    (not our need for control, power,
                    selfishness etc.)

                        This vow helps the religious
                    to follow the will of God and
                    live ever deeper on a supernatural
                    level the virtues of faith, hope
                    and love and other virtues.
                    To live the virtuous life
                    following Jesus.

                    God the Father said "This is My beloved
                        Son in whom I am will pleased."

                        Pride is the deadliest enemy
                    of the love of God. Pride is
                    putting your self-will before
                    God's will – Putting yourself
                    in exterior actions before God.
                    Constant submission to pride
                    brings destruction to the
                    things God has chosen us to do
                    for the building of the Kingdom of God.
                    Obedience and humility go
                    hand-in-hand in the religious
                    life –

                    We see this in Mary's life.

                (3) Luke 1: 46-55

And Mary said:

My soul proclaims
    the greatness of the Lord
and my spirit rejoices
    in God my Saviour;
because he has looked upon
    the humiliation of his servant.
Yes, from now onwards
    all generations will call me blessed,
for the Almighty
    has done great things for me.
Holy is his name,
and his faithful love extends age after age
    to those who fear him.
He has used the power of his arm,
he has routed the arrogant of heart.
He has pulled down princes
    from their thrones
        and raised high the lowly.
He has filled the starving with good things,
    sent the rich away empty.
He has come to the help
    of Israel his servant,
        mindful of his faithful love
—according to the promise
    he made to our ancestors—
of his mercy to Abraham
    and to his descendants for ever.
 

                    R. Obedience to just authority
                    keeps us from putting
                    ourselves above God and authority,
                    it keeps us in subjection
                    which is important in
                    obedience to God's will, the
                    Laws of God etc.

                (4) God calls us to be under Him.
                    The first commandment demands
                    this.
 

1 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.
 

                    R. Obedience to superiors leads
                    to humility, self-denial
                    and the other virtues.

                (5) Faith, hope and love grow
                    supernaturally by a
                    religious who is obedient
                    to their superior.

                        What is the example of Jesus?
                    Obedience – John the Baptist was
                    told to obey Jesus. We see the
                    Holy Spirit working in obedience
                    to those living as they should,
                    faithful to their calling and
                    in this case growing in the
                    supernatural theological virtues of
                    faith, hope and love.

                        Christ must increase, we
                    must decrease – Self - discipline,
                    resisting temptations – not
                    operating and giving into
                    desolation.

                (6) There must be development of the
                    Christ-life, Life in the Spirit.
                    The virtue of obedience is
                    constant – it is living
                    obediently –

                    Fr. Carter was a Jesuit and he
                    took his vows so serious.
                    St. Ignatius said
                    "Your obedience must be supernatural
                    prompt, thorough, wholehearted
                    and with unquestioning mind."
                    Fr. Carter lived this virtue –
                    He gave us this example –
                    He examined his conscience
                        twice daily.

                (7) "This is My beloved Son in whom
                    I am well pleased."

                    St. Ignatius tells us we must love.
 

From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p.12

                        23. FIRST PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION

                            Man is created to praise, reverence and serve God 
                        our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.
   

From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p.11

21.                     SPIRITUAL EXERCISES

    Which have as their purpose the conquest of self
    and the regulation of one's life in such a way that
    no decision is made under the influence of any
    inordinate attachment
 

                (8) What we love we will do.
                    Mary loved obedience.
                    Fr. Carter loved obedience.

“Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in a love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the mornings, what you will do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.”
                                                                                                                                Pedro Arrupe

                    R. Obedience must be done
                        in love.

                    What do you love most –
                        the answer should be God.

                    Jesus was rejected, Jesus persecuted,
                        put to death, but Jesus
                        was obedient to His Father's
                        will.
 

                (9) Excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. pp.60-61

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

                 R. We pray for the grace we need
                        most –

                (10) We ask Mary to help us to
                    discover Lucifer's deceits
                    in our lives and uses
                    this to try to bring-down
                    our loyalty to Christ in
                    our vocation –

                    "This is My beloved Son in whom I am
                        well pleased"
 
                    From St. Ignatius

    What have I done for Christ?
    What am I now doing for Christ?
    What ought I to do for Christ?

                The Marriage at Cana

                (1) This teaches us what a very
                    powerful intercessor Mary is.
                    We live our lives giving
                    example to others of our
                    holiness.
                    As a person is in authority
                        they are not to give those
                        under them bad example.

Matthew 8: 20

Jesus said, ‘Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.’
 

                (2) John 15: 12

                    R. God commands us to love
                        our neighbor as ourselves.

                    Jesus shows us as He loved
                        and served others He gave
                        glory to His Father in heaven.

                (3) God calls us to unselfishness.
                    God is love and in Him is no
                    darkness.

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 Judgement 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 can see cannot 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) 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.
 

                (7) 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.
 

                (8) 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.
 

                (9) From the Priestly Newsletter Book III by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

                (10) From Tell My People by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

                (2) R. The Holy Spirit is the artist of Souls.

                (3) April 3, 2017

A Prayer for Grace and Holiness today
A prayer to work in love and holiness
 

John 16: 23

"If you ask the Father anything in my name,
    He will give it to you"

R. God wants our unity – we ask for this
    unity – that the Spirit of God fill
    us and help us to be holy –
    that we do not hold onto any of the deadly
    sins that block us from this unity –
    that the Holy Spirit can work in our souls,
    so we can be His instruments of love
    and peace and joy among our brothers.

We pray this heavenly Father in the name of
    Jesus who said ask in my name and
    it will be given to you.

    Let us experience the joy of unity and love
    on a supernatural level and know You
    our beloved God – more and more supernaturally.
    We want our hearts to be sanctified in
    our love and work so we are holy and
    pleasing to You God.

Come to us Lord and possess our soul.

We want to walk as God intends us
    to walk today in the plan of God,
    in the work He has called us to do today.

We know that we must cooperate with the grace
    You are giving us – now and today to
    bring unity and peace and love to this
    day as we serve to do the work – You are
    calling us in our vocation to do.

Dear Heavenly Father, hear our prayer,
    in the name of Jesus, we pray,
    we ask, heavenly Father for these
    graces necessary this day to
    bring peace, love and joy to
    our relationships and work – as You
    work in us.

    We seek perfection in our souls to be holy
    souls likened to You – in work
    and in play – to be holy in prayer –
    we invite You Holy Spirit to be
    the Guest of our soul.

We seek order in our lives, not disorder.

We beg for the virtues of faith, hope, love,
    prudence, temperance, fortitude, justice,
    and humility. We seek to be obedient
    to the will of God and live obedient to
    the will of God in love.

Come Holy Spirit Come into our hearts. Transform
    us from fear to fearlessness to serve
    You as You desire in our lives.

Help our actions to be for the glory and honor
    of God with the goal of these actions
    to one day be in heaven with Thee,
    our beloved God.

Heal our hearts and our bodies – Help
    us to have health of body now in
    this work you call us to do.

Instill in us a desire to want to only
    do the will of the heavenly Father
    and to walk in holiness and love.
 

                (4) April 3, 2017 continues

R. We pray all these prayers heavenly Father,
    united to Jesus, in His name for
    grace and holiness today and always.

Help us to live by right reasoning in
    our lives – to have the truth
    in our every thought and to live
    in order as You operate in us
    in unity and love.

Come to me Lord and possess my soul.

We seek order in our lives – Your order
    to love in us, to help us to act as
    You desire, to have the thoughts
    that are in right reasoning and in
    Your order, Lord.

Give us the grace to use our faculties
    to love and serve You and do
    Your work.

Give us faith and right reasoning.

Help us to love and be just in our actions.

Help us to seek Your Divine Will and to
    perform those actions, which are actions
    pleasing to You in everything.

Come to us Lord and purify our consciences,
    our souls.

Help us to hope and love in Thee.

We seek heavenly vision – to see
    things through the eyes of
    the heavenly Father and to be
    perfected more and more in doing
    God's will in our lives.

We pray for the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit.

We pray for this purity in our souls –
    to live virtuously, to be perfected
    more and more and filled with the
    gifts of the Holy Spirit –
    Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel,
    Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety
    and Fear of the Lord 

    and to have the fruits of the Holy Spirit –
    charity, joy, peace, patience,
    benignity (kindness), goodness,
    long-suffering, mildness,
    faith, modesty, continency,
    and chastity.

We do not want the enemies to
    invade our thoughts, our
    actions, our lives –

We pray to give up ugly bad habits of the
    deadly sins –
    pride, greed, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth

We know on this journey we will
    experience sufferings and joys
    and we accept the struggles
    in life and ask You to help us,
    strengthen us in our lives to
    suffer and rejoice as You
    desire us to do in our lives.

We want to be a reflection of Your
    heavenly love – to be full of light –
    Your light in us. To operate in
    light and not darkness – IN You,
    our beloved God.

We want to follow in the footsteps
    of Jesus in giving love and
    light and unity to those
    we contact in our lives –
 

                (5) April 3, 2017 continues

Prayer for Union with Jesus

Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.

    I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.

    I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.

    When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.

-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994

                (2) Sing: A Priest is a Gift from God

                (3) Sing: A Song from Jesus

                (4) Sing: The Rosary Song

                (5) R. The voice of the Father was heard –

                    "This is My beloved Son
                        in whom I am well
                        pleased, listen to Him."

                (6) (1) CALL  (2) FORMATION  (3) Being Sent

                (7) From Fr. Joe's Homily Book - Walk in the Light

                (8) From the God's Pre-Blue Book

                (10) Luke 9: 28-36

                 The Institution of the Holy Eucharist at the Last Supper

                (1) From Blue Book 2

                April 13, 1994 - I Love You

                (2) Song: I Love You Jesus

                (3) From Blue Book 15

December 9, 1993

A Prayer for Holy Communion

R. As I give more and more of what I am attached to away, nobody can have a hold on me. I become, more and more, the little dependent baby in His arms. I depend on Him for everything. It is hard to let go of this to be as a little baby, dependent on Him for everything.

If, when I receive Jesus, I receive God, then so, in some form, I receive the Father and Holy Spirit because how do you separate them?

And the doors to the tabernacle open wide and in it we behold Jesus, Son of God, God-made-man. His presence is to be honored, His name worshiped and adored. His glory is forever.

Jesus: I come as a little baby into your midst. I died out of love of you. I come to you today in Holy Communion. This is God-made-man, Son of God, coming in your hearts to dwell with you. Do not focus on your unworthiness. Focus on His love, just for you, to come to you today. I love you so much and God is truly in your mouth. Be close to Me. Let go of yourself. Enter into total union with Me, soul to soul. Be united with Me totally in your spirit. Forget all the cares of this world and let Me dwell in you and work in your heart. Let Me heal your weary soul.

Open wide your gates and I enter in and you remain changed, never the same because Jesus Christ, Son of God, came to you and dwelt in your soul. You are My temple.

end of December 9, 1993