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Shepherds of Christ Daily Writing

July 20, 2019

July 21st Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 9 Period II.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries
for July 21st are Glorious.

Pray for Special Intentions, all involved

Please pray for Rita, Jim, Joe, Dan, Fr. Mike, Mary,
Sanja, Tyler, Madonna, Father's Day Mailing,
all we promised to pray for & want to pray for.
Pray for an important trip.

Please help us.
We printed 21,000 books of Fr. Joe's
homilies and we are short of funds to pay
for the homily books we send
for the priests weekly homilies Cycle A

Please pray for Dan, Jim, Blue Books,
Prayer Chapters, all intentions.

Please pray Fr. Joe's book & cover & all involved.

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.

July 20, 2019

R. St. Anne Novena Day 4

Pray for healing

Intentions Body Mind and Soul

R. Eve was given so many gifts and she
listened to satan because of pride.

R. With the sin of Adam and Eve disorder
entered the world.

We have original sin –

Sin brings unhappiness –

Sin is putting oneself before God.

God wants our love freely given –

                God gives us a free will to love Him,
                    to put Him first, to serve Him,
                    to be united, to give love to others,
                    to operate on his plan.

                R. And Jesus, the New Adam, came and showed
                us love. Jesus came and He obeyed His
                Father's will – He showed us the way –
                We meditate on the Mysteries of the Rosary
                    the lives of Jesus and Mary –

Mary loved the will of God.

Mary perfect handmaid of Jesus.

Mary's perfect obedience to God –

Mary conceived without sin –

Mary, our Mother –

                    Mother of Jesus –
                    Mother of the Church –
                    Mary loves –
                    Mary so beautiful –

From the Sequence of the Holy Spirit

                    Bend the stubborn heart and will –
                    Melt the frozen – warm the chill –
                    Guide the steps that go astray –

R. God is all Good.

God loves us.

It is our duty to love God in return –

How dark is the darkness –

You don't stay the same in the spiritual
life –

                God puts people in our lives to
                    help us to grow –
                    We must learn to trust others
                    if we want to trust God.
                    We learn to love and to forgive –

We learn we are a work in progress –

                What we may allow ourselves to
                    fear, may not even be
                    something we need to fear
                    at all –

                We see with distorted vision –
                    we base our vision, many times,
                    on experiences of the past that
                    we feared, when now there is no fear
                    at all, just what we have told
                    ourselves from a past experience
                    which is nothing as we see
                    it now –

                Then we can play it up – saying
                    I refuse to go there – when
                    nothing is there to fear at
                    all, and we need to go there
                    to do God's will –

                Satan can use old memories in us
                    that have not been healed to
                    tempt us to go in the wrong
                    direction –

                Yesterday the reading was Genesis
                    where the Pharaoh was
                    made obstinate – more
                    obstinate – he would not
                    stop what he was doing with 10 plagues –

Bad habits can be like ball and chains –

                You cannot move your leg if a ball
                    and chain is heavy enough
                    around them –

                Flying on wings of eagles – is
                    freedom –
                    Freedom is found in obedience
                        to God's will.

R. God blesses us –

God loves us –

                God gives us gifts to help us be virtuous,
                    holy, love His will, others in
                    our lives to guide us –

                No matter how imperfect the love of
                    our earthly father or earthly
                    mother –
                    God gives us our heavenly Father,
                    our heavenly Mother –

Spiritual Mother, Mary, so pure,
so loving –

Mary showed us her "yes".

A small child learns to say "yes" –

A small child learns to say "no" –

                We see free will from this small
                    child as they learn about
                    obedience –

What happens to a man or woman?

                R. We have a life-time to learn about
                    loving God with our whole heart,
                    our whole soul, our whole being
                    and loving our neighbor as ourselves.

                It's whats inside, our hearts were made
                    for God, our hearts were made
                    for love –
                    We were put here to grow in holiness –
                    To show God – we are wounded
                        but
                        WE put YOU FIRST
                        WE grow in love.

Colossians 1: 15-20

He is the image of the unseen God,
the first–born of all creation,
for in him were created all things
in heaven and on earth:
everything visible
    and everything invisible,
thrones, ruling forces,
    sovereignties, powers—
all things were created through him
    and for him.
He exists before all things
and in him all things hold together,
and he is the Head of the Body,
that is, the Church.

He is the Beginning,
the first–born from the dead,
so that he should be supreme in every way;
because God wanted all fullness
    to be found in him
and through him
    to reconcile all things to him,
everything in heaven
    and everything on earth,
by making peace through his death
    on the cross.

R. Sacrifice –

                    We unite by giving ourselves –
                        with pure hearts –
                        a pure attitude –
                        to the Mass –

The Sacrifice is Jesus.

                    Offered to the Father
                    in the Holy Spirit
                    with all the angels and saints
                    and the souls in purgatory –

Through the Eucharistic Sacrifice Christ the Lord desired to set before us in a very special way this remarkable union whereby we are united one with another and with our divine Head, a union that no word of praise can ever sufficiently express. For in this sacrifice the sacred ministers act not only as the representative of our Saviour, but as the representative of the whole Mystical Body and of each one of the faithful. Again, in this act of sacrifice, the faithful of Christ, united by the common bond of devotion and prayer, offer to the eternal Father through the hands of the priest, whose prayer alone has made it present on the altar, the Immaculate Lamb, the most acceptable victim of praise and propitiation for the Church’s universal need. Moreover, just as the divine Redeemer, while dying on the Cross, offered Himself to the eternal Father as Head of the whole human race, so now, ‘in this clean oblation’ He not only offers Himself as Head of the Church to His heavenly Father but in Himself His mystical members as well. He embraces them all, yes, even the weaker and more ailing members, with the deepest love of His Heart. (Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis AAS. XXXV, 232-233)⁷

A Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

    Let me be a holy sacrifice and unite with God in the sacrament of His greatest love.

    I want to be one in Him in this act of love, where He gives Himself to me and I give myself as a sacrifice to Him. Let me be a holy sacrifice as I become one with Him in this my act of greatest love to Him.

    Let me unite with Him more, that I may more deeply love Him. May I help make reparation to His adorable Heart and the heart of His Mother, Mary. With greatest love, I offer myself to You and pray that You will accept my sacrifice of greatest love. I give myself to You and unite in Your gift of Yourself to me. Come and possess my soul.

    Cleanse me, strengthen me, heal me. Dear Holy Spirit act in the heart of Mary to make me more and more like Jesus.

    Father, I offer this my sacrifice, myself united to Jesus in the Holy Spirit to You. Help me to love God more deeply in this act of my greatest love.

    Give me the grace to grow in my knowledge, love and service of You and for this to be my greatest participation in the Mass. Give me the greatest graces to love You so deeply in this Mass, You who are so worthy of my love.

-Mass Book, December 27, 1995

Through Him, With Him, In Him

R. Love is giving – not holding back –

Giving like Christ on the cross –

                Giving as we see Jesus in the
                    Mysteries of the
                    Rosary.

We live His life, death and
resurrection in our lives –

Giving without cost –

Obeying the Commandments

The Ten Commandments

1. I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me.
  2. You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain.
  3. Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.
  4. Honor your father and your mother.
  5. You shall not kill.
  6. You shall not commit adultery.
  7. You shall not steal.
  8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
  9. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.
  10. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.

R. Living by the Word

July 2, 2019

Mysteries of Light

The Baptism of Jesus

(1) The hidden life –

Luke 2: 51-52

He went down with them then and came to Nazareth and lived under their authority. His mother stored up all these things in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom, in stature, and in favour with God and with people.

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

This is my commandment: love one another, as I have loved you.

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.

The Holy Spirit And Mary

The late Archbishop Luis M. Martinez of Mexico strikingly speaks of the ongoing cooperation of Mary with the Holy Spirit regarding the reproduction of Jesus within us: "Christian life is the reproduction of Jesus in souls…

"Now, how will this mystical reproduction be brought about in souls? In the same way in which Jesus was brought into the world, for God gives a wonderful mark of unity to all His works. Divine acts have a wealth of variety because they are the work of omnipotence; nevertheless, a most perfect unity always shines forth from them because they are the fruit of wisdom; and this divine contrast of unity and variety stamps the works of God with sublime and unutterable beauty.

"In His miraculous birth, Jesus was the fruit of heaven and earth…The Holy Spirit conveyed the divine fruitfulness of the Father to Mary, and the virginal soil brought forth in an ineffable manner our most loving Savior, the divine Seed, as the prophets called Him…

"That is the way He is reproduced in souls. He is always the fruit of heaven and earth.

"Two artisans must concur in the work that is at once God’s masterpiece and humanity’s supreme product: the Holy Spirit and the most holy Virgin Mary. Two sanctifiers are necessary to souls, the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, for they are the only ones who can reproduce Christ.

"Undoubtedly, the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary sanctify us in different ways. The first is the Sanctifier by essence; because He is God, who is infinite sanctity; because He is the personal Love that completes, so to speak, the sanctity of God, consummating His life and His unity, and it belongs to Him to communicate to souls the mystery of that sanctity. The Virgin Mary, for her part, is the co-operator, the indispensable instrument in and by God’s design. From Mary’s maternal relation to the human body of Christ is derived her relation to His Mystical Body which is being formed through all the centuries until the end of time, when it will be lifted up to the heavens, beautiful, splendid, complete, and glorious.

"These two, then, the Holy Spirit and Mary, are the indispensable artificers of Jesus, the indispensable sanctifiers of souls. Any saint in heaven can co-operate in the sanctification of a soul, but his co-operation is not necessary, not profound, not constant: while the co-operation of these two artisans of Jesus of whom we have just been speaking is so necessary that without it souls are not sanctified (and this by the actual design of Providence), and so intimate that it reaches to the very depths of our soul. For the Holy Spirit pours charity into our heart, makes a habitation of our soul, and directs our spiritual life by means of His gifts. The Virgin Mary has the efficacious influence of Mediatrix in the most profound and delicate operations of grace in our souls. And, finally, the action of the Holy Spirit and the co-operation of the most holy Virgin Mary are constant; without them, not one single character of Jesus would be traced on our souls, no virtue grow, no gift be developed, no grace increased, no bond of union with God be strengthened in the rich flowering of the spiritual life.

"Such is the place that the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary have in the order of sanctification. Therefore, Christian piety should put these two artisans of Christ in their true place, making devotion to them something necessary, profound, and constant." ¹⁸

18. Archbishop Luis M. Martinez, The Sanctifier, op. cit. pp. 5-7.

(10) 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

The Kingdom of God

(1) Matthew 5: 3-12

How blessed are the poor in spirit:
the kingdom of Heaven is theirs.
Blessed are the gentle:
they shall have the earth as inheritance.
Blessed are those who mourn:
they shall be comforted.
Blessed are those
   who hunger and thirst for uprightness:
they shall have their fill.
Blessed are the merciful:
they shall have mercy shown them.
Blessed are the pure in heart:
they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers:
they shall be recognised
   as children of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted
   in the cause of uprightness:
the kingdom of Heaven is theirs.

Blessed are you when people abuse you and persecute you and
speak all kinds of calumny against you falsely on my account.
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven; this
is how they persecuted the prophets before you.

(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

end of April 3, 2017

(6) Sing: Come Holy Ghost

(7) Sing: Veni Sancte Spiritus

(8) Sing: The King of Glory

(9) Sing: Holy God We Praise Thy Name

(10) Sing: Prayer of St. Francis (Make Me an Channel of Your Peace)

The Transfiguration

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

From Rita Robinson Ring,
Co-founder of Shepherds of Christ

    God has chosen us, we are to turn to Christ with greater generosity, and as baptized Christians to grow in our knowing and loving capacity.

    God has put His handprint on us in baptism giving to us the virtues of faith, hope and love. These are theological virtues. We must pray to God for the increase in these virtues and we respond to the grace He outpours to us. In praying for the increase in faith we can see more and more the vision of the Heavenly Father. We can hope for our eternal salvation and help spread that hope in our lives to others and we can share more deeply in God’s loving activity – loving more supernaturally as we cooperate by responding to the gifts given by God of greater faith, hope and love.

    God is with us, God wants us to spread the good news, to turn toward Him in loving union performing good acts according to His will.

    Fr. Joe’s book teaches us about love and life in God. Fr. Joe’s book teaches us about the gift of the Mass and the Church, and about salvation history. We live more every day according to the scriptures in peace, love and joy. We know Jesus, we love Him. He is operating in us.

    We all seek happiness – Happiness is found in God –

    In reading the weekly scriptures and reading Fr. Joe’s homily – God’s loving self-communication to us will grow in our lives – as we respond in love to Him.

    This book and the scripture come alive in our lives every Sunday after we read the scriptures and Fr. Joe’s homily before Mass.

    God communicates His own life through grace and man in return gives himself to God and his fellowman in loving service.

    Happiness comes to us in dying to those ways not likened to God and rising in the spiritual life in that image and likeness of Christ.

    We love Fr. Joe’s jokes that help us to clear our minds and laugh and listen.

    He told me of a little boy who was drawing a picture in art class and the teacher said “Who is this?” And the little boy said, “It is God.”

    The teacher said, “Nobody knows what God looks like.” The little boy said, “When I get done – they will know.”

    In baptism we have been given a sharing in God’s life with this elevated knowing and loving capacity.

    It is up to us to pray to God for the grace to grow to know and love Him more – to be more and more likened to God.

    In the pages of Fr. Joe’s homilies we learn more and more about God, about loving God and loving others as ourselves – God is love – God is the source of love – We are to Respond to God’s love.

    Excerpt from Response to God’s Love by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

“... In reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate mystery. Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden from man in his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us briefly look at this inner life of God.

The Father, in a perfect act of self-expression, in a perfect act of knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the immanent expression of God’s fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise, from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in a perfect act of loving.

At the destined moment in human history, God’s self-expression, the Word, immersed himself into man’s world. God’s inner self-expression now had also become God’s outer self-expression. Consequently, the mystery of God becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us about himself, about his inner life, about his plan of creation and redemption. He tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell within us in the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us their own life through grace. All this he has accomplished and does accomplish through Christ. St. Paul tells us: “I became a minister of this Church through the commission God gave me to preach among you his word in its fullness, that mystery hidden from ages and generations past but now revealed to his holy ones. God has willed to make known to them the glory beyond price which this mystery brings to the Gentiles—the mystery of Christ in you, your hope of glory. This is the Christ we proclaim while we admonish all men and teach them in the full measure of wisdom, hoping to make every man complete in Christ” (Col 1:25-28).”

Excerpts from Guiding Light – Feed My Soul

p. 111 When Jesus said the two greatest commandments were about love: love of God and love of neighbor, the Jewish scholar asked Jesus another question: “And who is my neighbor?” You might recall that there was great animosity between Jews and Samaritans, so in introducing a Samaritan into the story, Jesus shows us “neighbor” could be anyone, even someone we despise.

p. 51 The conversation Jesus had about tragic events at the beginning of today’s gospel was interesting. Sometimes people think when something bad happens to someone it is God’s punishment. Jesus said that’s not always true. He does not try to explain suffering here, but he is telling us not to be complacent, which we sometimes are. We can’t think “well, if nothing bad is happening to me, it must be because I am so good.” He tells us we all need to repent, i.e., to work to be better than we are.

pp. 29-30 As we celebrate Jesus’ baptism, may we at the same time celebrate our own. May we rejoice in God’s gift of love and life given to us, and may we live up to the high dignity with which God has blessed us.

(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

In Honor of Our Beloved Priests

101st Anniversary of Fatima

October 13, 2018

My dear priests, hierarchy and members of the mystical body of Christ,

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

    Fr. Carter our founder wrote two very important books Response to God’s Love and Response in Christ.

    The following thoughts are inspired by these two books.

    God first loved us.

    We receive a sharing in Divine Life in baptism – our knowing and loving capacity is elevated.

    We are human creatures and yet we see God’s loving self-communication to us with our concomitant response to Him in love.

    Man rejected this self-communication of God in original sin.

    God on His part communicates His own life through grace and man in return gives himself to God and his fellowman in loving service.

    We can respond to this marvelous gift God gives to us as members of the mystical body of Christ – with Christ our head.

    We can be witnesses of Christ alive in us both in the Church and in the world because the Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwell in a special way, in our graced, baptized soul.

    God wants such intimacy with us.

    I, Rita Robinson Ring, have learned a lot about the spiritual life from Our Lord in daily Mass and in spending at least one hour a day before the Blessed Sacrament where Jesus is truly present in His Divinity and humanity, no less present than when He walked the earth.

    I have been guided by Fr. Carter our founder and had the gift of my brother, Fr. Joe Robinson at Mass, Sunday, week days, funerals etc. and other priests who have helped us on our journey in Shepherds of Christ.

    Through the Priestly Newsletter of Fr. Carter we circulated 17,000,000 Newsletters to Priests and Hierarchy since 1994. This is Fr. Joe’s 12th book. We sent out most years to about 38,000 priests and hierarchy. We have circulated about 438,000 of Fr. Joe’s homily books over 10 years to priests and hierarchy.

    What a gift these homilies of Fr. Joe’s are as he teaches us about Responding to God’s love, being Christ a-live in this world as a witness to Jesus and teaching us about the Bread of Life: the Word and the Eucharist.

    We pray for the priests and have since 1994 in prayer chapters. Our prayers have been translated in 8 languages with the Imprimatur. We especially pray 8 days every month with Mass and the Holy Eucharist exposed most of the days for the priests, the Church and the world. We pray 24 hours every day and night in China before the exposed Eucharist for the priests and the Church.

    Please pray with us, the prayers, Fr. Carter, our Founder, gave us in 1994 centered in Consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary praying for the priests, the Church and the world. Life is in Jesus.

    With love,

    Rita Robinson Ring and all at Shepherds of Christ

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

Saturday 1992 (excerpt)

R. ...Mary our Immaculate Mother.
Protect us from the evil one –
help us to be joined hand in hand
in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary –
Let my family be so united to the
precious Hearts of Jesus and Mary to
ward off any evil attempts
against us and help us grow in
greater holiness.

Our strength and our courage is
from You dear Jesus and Mary and
through Your most loving Hearts –
Our love will endure in the Hearts
of Jesus and Mary – You, Lord,
are our strength –

We ask for healing for any dysfunction –
generational healing – that love will
abound in the Hearts of Jesus and
Mary – I ask for this healing so we
will be one in the Hearts of Jesus
and Mary –

Our family dwelling in the
Hearts of Jesus and Mary –
Help us all to go to heaven –
Dear Father, I love You, my Divine
God hear my prayer – help us to
be heirs of the Kingdom –
Oh most blessed Holy Spirit –
I beg for the gifts of wisdom,
understanding, counsel, fortitude,
knowledge, piety, and Fear of the Lord –
I beg to have love in our family –
Holy Spirit – the fire of God's love.
Holy Spirit shower on my family Your
gifts –

I want the fire of Your love over
all our heads –
impart to us the fire of the tongues
of love –
You gave Your gifts to the Apostles –
please Holy Spirit give them to my
family – to the world.
Protect us from the fears of the world
hurting us with their errors.

Your love is Divine Love.
Your love is unending –

Your love is everlasting –

You my God

You my Savior

You Oh Holy Spirit

I know You never slumber or sleep –

I know the very hairs of my head are
numbered, every freckle and white
spot counted and You care for me
with precious love – You know
everything about me –

You know the love of my heart –
on fire for You and the love for each
child and the world – a furnace that
is hot and a blaze with the fire of
Your love –

Oh Holy Spirit – I love – I know
more Your understanding and Your
wisdom,
Your counsel – I want my heart to
be consumed with love –
God help me to spread Your love
to the world –

Fill me with Your grace –

I am Your child, God

You love me with Divine Love –

You are my strength

You have all the power,
I give You Lord Jesus, my will
and my life –

I surrender to the fires of Your love –
I give in – Help me Jesus to let go
and let You run the show,
help me to let go to You, Jesus –

I am Your putty.

You are my God.

Heal me.

Put me in Your hands –

Let me feel Your presence with me.

Jesus says:
“Listen to My direction. I talk to
you. Write these letters every day
as you get up from bed.
A new letter every morning –
My direction will be with you –
new life – I come to give you new life.

You will have peace –

Your children are guarded.

Your life will be directed by Me.

It will be easy for you to turn
your life over to Me.
I love you, I will not leave you
orphaned – nor your children –

Celebrate and know My gift is at hand.
I am your God –
Jesus the Lord”

R. Everything that Jesus has taught me in
26 years and all of us is about prayer,
is about life in Him, is about being a
branch attached to the vine.

God wants us to help in helping souls,
baptized Catholics are to live more deeply
as members of the body of Christ

Jesus: I am the vine you are the branches.

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

May 18, 1992 - Monday

R. Dear Jesus,
Please help me this day to do Thy
holy will. This is a day you have
given to me, it is unfolding
I ask for You to mold me and my day
I have a free will, I surrender to You God.
I am Your child please
guide me and help me to do Thy holy will
I admit my powerlessness over this
situation and I give You my will and
my life. The door stands open and
I have moved the chair. I want
to serve You. Here are my hands,
my heart, my eyes, my feet,
my mouth, my life, hear me I
am here to do Thy holy will,
please guide me and lead me and
help me in every moment of this day.

Jesus: You My child are a gift I give
to this world, your smile, your
warmth, your love, your compassion
I give you as a bud ready to burst
and be full and let all see your radiance
and your beauty. Everyone smells
the flower and looks at its beauty
and is glad it is there, never to abuse
or mistreat. You My child are
special as a flower, never to be used
or mistreated but to be enjoyed and
respected. See yourself as a beautiful
flower. Many are called, but few are
chosen. You My daughter are
one of My chosen ones. Remember
yourself as a flower and a gift,
people look at a gift and treat
it with respect and you are My
gift to these children and to the
world, you are My gift to My
other children, you are of
value, of worth, of respect,
they are given this gift
I give them through you. You
are a flower – ready to open
and omit a fragrance, the fragrance
comes from Me, I am the power
whereby you open and omit My
love which is the fragrance –

Let Me use you – you are beautiful
as the flower, great to behold and
to have in their presence. You
are special and they are favored by Me
to have received such gifts.
You have so much to give.

I love you, you are My precious
child and My precious flower – you
are a door waiting to open and be
your new life – a pod ready to
explode – you are My child and
wherever you go, whenever you go, I go
with you with My rod and My staff –
helping and protecting you, I am your
strong guard, your rear and fore guard
I am your protection, your light
and your life – cling to Me and know
My presence. I go with you
in all that you do. You are My
flower. I love you,
Jesus

Serenity Prayer

“God grant me the serenity to accept the
things I cannot change and the courage
to change the things I can and the
wisdom to know the difference.”

(10) Luke 9: 28-36

Now about eight days after this had been said, he took with him Peter, John and James and went up the mountain to pray. And it happened that, as he was praying, the aspect of his face was changed and his clothing became sparkling white. And suddenly there were two men talking to him; they were Moses and Elijah appearing in glory, and they were speaking of his passing which he was to accomplish in Jerusalem. Peter and his companions were heavy with sleep, but they woke up and saw his glory and the two men standing with him. As these were leaving him, Peter said to Jesus, ‘Master, it is wonderful for us to be here; so let us make three shelters, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.’ He did not know what he was saying. As he was saying this, a cloud came and covered them with shadow; and when they went into the cloud the disciples were afraid. And a voice came from the cloud saying, ‘This is my Son, the Chosen One. Listen to him.’ And after the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. The disciples kept silence and, at that time, told no one what they had seen.

The Institution of the Holy Eucharist at the Last Supper

(1) From Blue Book 2

April 13, 1994 - I Love You

Words of Jesus. Read before the Tabernacle.

Jesus: How, child, do I, Jesus, tell you I love you? You hold on to silly things when God is in your midst and is ardently loving you. I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I am writing to each precious child this day. I am on fire for love of you. I remain in the Eucharist to be with you with My ardent love. I did not want to leave My beloved ones at the Last Supper. I love you so, My dear and ardently loved children. I remain with you this day in the Blessed Sacrament, the same Jesus Who died a brutal death on the Cross.

    Do you know I am truly present there? Do you know that God waits every day for you in the tabernacle? Do you comprehend even a minute amount of My love? You will never know of how I love you on earth.

    I, Jesus, truly the Son of God, came to earth a man and suffered a brutal death for love of you. I love you so much! I remain with you this day. I long for your love. I want you to come and be with Me in front of the tabernacle. I wait, I yearn for you to come and whisper your love to Me. I am a person and I love you this day, with such an ardent on-fire love! No human could ever compare a speck to My love for you.

    I wait, little ones, in the tabernacle. I wait for you to come and receive Me in Communion. I want you to want Me so much you cannot wait to come and receive Me. I want to be the love, the center of your life!

    I am Jesus. I am the Son of God. I am writing to you this day. I want to possess your very soul and live in you. I have all you need, sweet ones. Oh, you are so blind! I long for your union with Me. I wrote the book of love. I instituted it, yet you go to the world for your love and do not even come to Me! Oh, I love you, little ones. Little ones, beloved of the Father, loved by the Holy Spirit, mothered by My very own mother! What more can I say? The rest is up to you!

    I give you your will with such love and I want your love freely given. I am God. What do you think you could ever need that I do not give you? I am the Savior of this world. I am Jesus, the Son of God. I am waiting for you. I am longing for you. I am yearning for you. I am God. I have all you ever will need!

    Surrender this life to Me. Pray My Prayer for Union with Me. I want to possess your soul and operate from your very being. I am Jesus. I am the Son of God. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I am Who am. I died and rose on the third day.

    Harken to My call, harken to My pleading. Spend your days in love with Me. Nothing matters unless it is rooted in Me and rooted in My love. I am the Son of God. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I love you with the tenderest love. I am waiting this day for just you, My beloved one. Come to Me for I am the tenderest of all hearts. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

- God's Blue Book, Volume 2 April 13, 1994

(2) Song: I Love You Jesus

(3) From Blue Book 15

Through the Eucharistic Sacrifice Christ the Lord desired to set before us in a very special way this remarkable union whereby we are united one with another and with our divine Head, a union that no word of praise can ever sufficiently express. For in this sacrifice the sacred ministers act not only as the representative of our Saviour, but as the representative of the whole Mystical Body and of each one of the faithful. Again, in this act of sacrifice, the faithful of Christ, united by the common bond of devotion and prayer, offer to the eternal Father through the hands of the priest, whose prayer alone has made it present on the altar, the Immaculate Lamb, the most acceptable victim of praise and propitiation for the Church’s universal need. Moreover, just as the divine Redeemer, while dying on the Cross, offered Himself to the eternal Father as Head of the whole human race, so now, ‘in this clean oblation’ He not only offers Himself as Head of the Church to His heavenly Father but in Himself His mystical members as well. He embraces them all, yes, even the weaker and more ailing members, with the deepest love of His Heart. (Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis AAS. XXXV, 232-233)

(4) From Blue Book 14

January 2, 1997
"In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen."

"The grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ, and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all."

God pours out His grace in this Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. It is the greatest gift when God gives Himself to us.

We share with God His life, given to us abundantly in the Mass.

He gives Himself to us, and we give ourselves to Him. The great love affair between God and man: His Holy Mass.

The priest is another Christ to us. It is Christ present, through the priest, celebrating the Mass. We must see Christ in the priest, see Him celebrate the Mass, see His beautiful brown hair, His gentle face, see Him, Our Savior. This Jesus Christ that came was born an infant and gave Himself to His death on the cross that we would share His life. See Him now in the Mass, giving Himself in the greatest gift of all. He gives us His divine love and His divine life.

Oh, we thank You for Your life. We know He died and rose and gave us a sharing in His holy life. His life is now abundantly poured, as a fountain to us, especially in the Mass.

Then we hear His Word. Let the Word of God penetrate our being. Let us feel this Living Word of God. As a two-edged sword, it comes forth with such conviction and love and it penetrates the souls of the faithful with such love. It is food indeed, food for our soul.

He is the Good Shepherd. He speaks to us. He gives us all we want. "There is nothing I shall want." (The Lord is my shepherd; I have everything I need. Ps. 23:1).

He gives us green pastures, and His water pours out and refreshes us. He outpours His grace as a fountain to feed us with His life.

He is a just God, good and kind, all loving, for He is love. We want for nothing for He outpours His love and His life to us in the Mass. We feast on His Body and Blood and are fed with His Word. We become one in Him and He shares Himself with us.

It is through the Mass celebrated by the hands of a holy pries that we will experience the Mass the way Christ intends. These writings are insights which hopefully will help lead you to the spring of life-giving water, the fountain of love and life He outpours in the Mass.

There will be a new earth when men will see with the light of seven suns. They will know God. A people walking in darkness will see a great light. They will no longer be blind, they will be enlightened, they will love God with the greatest love in the Mass. They will feast on His Body and Blood and will be united as one body in His holy Church through His life given to us in the Eucharist.

We will drink copiously from the fountain of grace which He pours out in the Mass. We will be filled with His love, absorbed with the love of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and feasting on His divine life.

We see with the vision of God. We partake in such a union with God. We see with the light the Spirit gives to us. The priest celebrates the Mass and we know God with such an intense knowing in this union. We are saturated with His life flowing from the hands of His consecrated priest.

And I look at Him, the priest, and I see Jesus there. I see Him giving Himself to me. I see the new and Holy City. I see with such clarity the great gift that God gives to us in the Mass!

We learn how to love in the Mass, for we unite to God. He gives us such an intimate sharing in His divine love that we carry His love out to the world. In this union we know His loving to an intense degree and we carry this love out to others. We share in an intense way in His divine act of loving. He, Who is Love, gives Himself to us and we are absorbed in His love and we know intensely how God loves. We are filled with love for God and for each other, for, in the oneness He is loving through us. He gives us lights into His loving capacity and we know His loving power in an intensity we did not know before.

We then pray. We offer up our intentions for this Mass. It is now we who intercede to Him to outpour His grace on us and help us with these intentions.

We pray for this reign of peace when the Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign and the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph and men will fervently love and adore God with burning love. We pray for all souls and the Church and we beg for His help, His love, His grace.

We offer ourselves as a sacrifice. We offer the bread that will become the Bread of Life.

The priest mixes the water and the wine and we realize how His Divinity mixes with our humanity.

We offer the wine that will become our spiritual drink–His Blood.

I give myself to Him and I beg to be cleansed of my sins with the washing of the hands.

"May the Lord accept the sacrifice of your hands for the praise and glory of His name, for our good and the good of all His Church."

We ask Him to accept the gifts we want to give Him, we give Him thanks, we lift up our hearts in thanks and praise and we sing out:

"Holy, Holy God, of power and might..." we sing Him praise and thank Him, "Oh, God we love thee so much."

My heart is so filled with such awe. I cry because I love Him so much.

Every word in the Mass, I love. The priest consecrates the Host and changes it into the Body and Blood of Christ. Hear Christ say to us: "This is My Body", "This is My Blood".

Oh, it makes me cry for I am so struck with awe at what happens at the Consecration. I unite in the oneness with the priest, with Christ and with all present, with heaven and earth. I am one in that moment, united in the sacrifice of Christ giving Himself to the Father.

This is the moment when I unite in such oneness with Christ in the purity of Mary's heart. I give myself as a sacrifice. I offer myself to the Father.

The Father looks down and He sees us united to His Son's Sacrifice. It is in this oneness that His grace is outpoured on us, that we die to that which is not like Him and that the Holy Spirit works in the heart of Mary and fills us with His life.

I am in ecstasy as I realize more and more the great gift of love that God gives us in His holy Mass. I am taken to such heights, being wrapped in the presence of God. It is rapture, this Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

It is a great gift, experiencing this intense presence of the Almighty God: Through Him, With Him, and In Him.

We pray to the Father the prayer as Jesus taught us and beg, "Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

We pray: "For the Kingdom, the power and the glory are Yours, now and forever."

We beg for peace in our hearts. We share this peace with one another. Then we beg of the Lamb of God. I want to get down to the ground and beg for His grace, mercy, and forgiveness for our sins.

Please, God, I see us as a sinful people. I want the grace and mercy to flow abundantly.

He raises the Host and says: "This is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, happy are those who are called to His supper."

We respond: "Lord, I am not worthy to receive You, but only say the word and I shall be healed."

I receive the Almighty God in Communion. All I want is Him. Oh, God, I want You, I adore You, I worship You, I love You.

Oh, for this moment when God gives Himself to me. Oh, God, words do not express this time–this intense presence of You within my being. Oh, sweet Savior, I love You!

You share Yourself so intimately with me. You imprint on my soul a knowing of Your Divine Being that is so intimate in this Communion when You give Yourself to me.

Oh, let our hearts be open to His grace that we may know this great gift more, that we will partake more fully in this greatest act of love with Divinity.

He shares Himself with us, the Almighty God, in such oneness. This is the greatest way to bind us with each other, to unite with each other in the Mass and Communion.

And so I sing the love of God, the love of His Mass. I beg you to pray for the grace that He can teach you in these writings about His most intimate love affair with man, the gift of Himself–the gift He gives us in the Mass.

The Holy Sacrifice, the sacrifice of Calvary, sacramentally-made-present in the Mass when He gives Himself to us with the greatest love!

And what does He ask in return? He asks that we love one another, that we give Him the glory, the thanksgiving, the adoration that is His due as the Almighty God.

He sends us forth with His blessing to share His most intimate love with all. We go forth as other Christs in the world. For He is alive this day and He lives in us and He gives His love to others through us. We act as channels of His life to one another.

The Mass is the richest source of His life. His life flows through the body, the Church, especially through the sacraments and the Mass.

Oh Jesus, from the fountain of life that pours forth from your pierced Heart, give us holy priests whose hearts are consecrated to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary to celebrate the Mass–that there is such oneness between the priest and Christ that His grace will flow copiously.

We thirst for the fountain of life pouring forth from the pierced Heart of Christ. It is His life we seek and find in the Church. It is His love we want and we experience the greatest love affair with God in the Mass.

These books on the Mass are accounts of my intimate love affair with our Almighty God. Many experiences were enlightenments I received in the Mass.

I strongly advise all to pray, to say the Holy Spirit Prayer, the consecration prayers, and the Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, before Mass.

This book is the journey into the red room, the inner chamber of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, through the gateway, the pure and Immaculate Heart of His Mother.

It is in the Mass we give ourselves in such love to our Holy God. He gives Himself to us and we give ourselves to Him.

(5) From Blue Book 2

Put God First in Your Life

January 2, 1994

Jesus: My heart is ablaze for love of My dear children. I want each to understand My love. Each child is given a free will to choose Me or reject Me. Many have gone so far from the first commandment! It is My commandment that makes all the others work. If I am first, all the others follow. The world drives you away from God. God is looked on without respect. To take My name out of schools is preaching a mighty lesson to children about God. It is so sad for a young child to be subjected to a school that does not mention the name of God all day. This is in violation of the first commandment. It teaches the children that God is not someone to honor. It is so vile to teach a child such a sick thing. Your country was founded on God. Your songs reflect the love of God. Your money talks of God. And now America is a Godless society.

Sex is worshiped and God is dismissed. What a way to try to operate, void of God! A country void of God will decay from within. It is so sad for the children. Pray for your children, America. It makes My heart so sad to think of a little child being taught everything void of God. God is disrespected and laughed at. Sex is made your god. Schools teach sex and never mention the word of God. Tell the kindergartners–little babies–about means to safe sex! Are you sick, America?

Man has glorified himself to the heights of God and he believes he is that powerful. Man is sick and his ways are sick and what he teaches is anything but the truth. Children are being taught such sick things in schools. I lament the hearts of the children. These messages need to reach My children so they know of My intense love. These messages will feed the starved souls of many. They are of top priority. You don't know how vile your system is because you have become numb to live here.

My ways are direct and clear. My ways are truth. Each child has a conscience and each one has the ability to know the truth in his heart. Be of a clean heart so you will spread My truth to all. Your light shining in the darkness makes the world take notice of Me. Keep up with all of your endeavors to know Me. Live the truth and pray! Every day, pray for everyone–they need to be prayed for. Busy yourself each day praying for your brothers. Make in your New Year a special intention to make God first and last in your life! Make Him your center.

I love you. Alleluia. Amen.

(6) Excerpt from the Priestly Newsletter Book 3

The Eucharist

At the Last Supper, on the night He was betrayed, our Saviour instituted the Eucharistic Sacrifice of His Body and Blood. He did this in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the Cross throughout the centuries until He should come again, and so to entrust to His beloved spouse, the Church, a memorial of His death and resurrection: a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity, a paschal banquet in which Christ is consumed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us. (Vatican II, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, No. 17) ¹³

The Church, therefore, earnestly desires that Christ’s faithful, when present at this mystery of faith, should not be there as strangers or silent spectators. On the contrary, through a proper appreciation of the rites and prayers they should participate knowingly, devoutly, and actively. They should be instructed by God’s word and be refreshed at the table of the Lord’s body; they should give thanks to God; by offering the Immaculate Victim, not only through the hands of the priest, but also with him, they should learn to offer themselves too. Through Christ the Mediator, they should be drawn day by day into ever closer union with God and with each other, so that finally God may be all in all. (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, No. 48) ¹⁴

Through the Eucharistic Sacrifice Christ the Lord desired to set before us in a very special way this remarkable union whereby we are united one with another and with our divine Head, a union that no word of praise can ever sufficiently express. For in this sacrifice the sacred ministers act not only as the representative of our Saviour, but as the representative of the whole Mystical Body and of each one of the faithful. Again, in this act of sacrifice, the faithful of Christ, united by the common bond of devotion and prayer, offer to the eternal Father through the hands of the priest, whose prayer alone has made it present on the altar, the Immaculate Lamb, the most acceptable victim of praise and propitiation for the Church’s universal need. Moreover, just as the divine Redeemer, while dying on the Cross, offered Himself to the eternal Father as Head of the whole human race, so now, ‘in this clean oblation’ He not only offers Himself as Head of the Church to His heavenly Father but in Himself His mystical members as well. He embraces them all, yes, even the weaker and more ailing members, with the deepest love of His Heart. (Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis AAS. XXXV, 232-233) ¹⁵

The Sacrifice of Calvary is sacramentally made present in the Mass. When we pray the Morning Offering Prayer, united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, we act as Intercessors, pleading to God that great graces be released all day through our prayerful actions as we act in love according to the Father’s will. Whether we are eating, taking care of a sick parent, enjoying time spent with a friend, working at our job, we can help bring down great graces for the world.

When we pray the Morning Offering Prayer we offer our lives to the Father, through Christ, in the Holy Spirit, with the prayerful assistance of Mary, our Mother. Let us pray together united in our hearts in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. There follow two Morning or Daily Offering Prayers. The first is that of the Apostleship of Prayer Organization:

"O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer you my prayers, works, joys and sufferings of this day, in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world. I offer them for all the intentions of your Sacred Heart: the salvation of souls, reparation for sin, the reunion of all Christians. I offer them for the intentions of our Bishops and of all Apostles of Prayer, and in particular for those recommended by our Holy Father –"

And here is another Morning Offering Prayer: "My dear Father, I offer You this day all my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings in union with Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, in the Holy Spirit.

"I unite with our Mother, Mary, all the angels and saints, and all the souls in purgatory to pray to the Father for myself, for each member of my family, for my friends, for all the people throughout the world, for all the souls in purgatory, and for all other intentions of the Sacred Heart.

"I love You, Jesus, and I give You my heart. I love you, Mary, and I give you my heart. Amen."16

St. John Vianney, the Curé of Ars, offers us these consoling words: "If we really loved God, we should make it our joy and happiness to come and spend a few moments before the tabernacle to adore him, and ask him for the grace of forgiveness – Oh! how sweet and consoling are moments spent with the God of goodness. Are you in sorrow? Come and cast yourself at his feet and you will feel quite consoled. Are you despised by the world. Come here and you will find a good friend whose faithfulness will never fail you. Are you tempted? It is here that you will find strong and terrible weapons to vanquish your enemies – Are you oppressed by poverty? Come and find a God infinitely rich… You who are reconciled with him, beg for the precious gift of perseverance. Oh! Tell him that if you are to offend him again, you would rather die. Would you begin to taste the joy of the saints? Come here and you will know the happy beginnings of it." ¹⁷

13. The Documents of Vatican II, "Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy," America Press edition, No. 17.
14. Ibid., No. 48.
15. Pope Pius XII, Encyclical Letter, Mystici Corporis, AAS, XXXV, pp. 232-233.
16. Rita Ring, Rosary Meditations for Parents and Children, Shepherds of Christ Ministries, p.189
17. Saint John Vianney, "Sermons for Holy Thursday", in Eucharistic Meditations, editor Sr. Mary Benvenuta, O. P., translated by Abbé H. Convert, as in Adoration, compiled by Daniel Guernsey, Ignatius Press, p. 96.

(7) Song: Your Presence Pervades My Soul

(8) Sing: Oh Lord I am Not Worthy

(9) From Blue Book 2

I Am Here in the Tabernacle

January 15, 1994 9:15 a.m.
St. Michael Church

Jesus: You come here and I am waiting. Let go of all distractions Satan busies your mind with. You have come to adore your King. Block out all and focus on the King of Glory.

I am Jesus. I am God. I am your all. I am God. Worship, honor, glory–all is My due. Blow the trumpets, sound the horns! There are others to walk about, but no thought, not even a prayer, for the King of Glory.

I am very sad and hurt by all who neglect Me and do not come to Me as I sit here. Where are they? I am Jesus, Son of the Living God. If for one instant I were to cease to think of them, they would cease to be, but they do not even realize Who I am. My heart is so sad. What do they think, for their busy lives? They are in the presence of a King and they don't even recognize Me!

It delights Me so that you have come to Me. I love you with such intense love and I want to give you so many gifts. Come and be with Me in silence. Sit and I will help you block out distractions. I am the King of Glory. I am God. If people come to My house here, it is not to pray, outside of Mass. They come to fix the church and miss the King of Glory. Blind! How blind they are!

Blessed be the name of God. At His Name every knee must bow. I am Jesus, Son of the Living God and have spoken to you, My child. Be with Me. Tell your friends to come and bang on the doors to My church. The priests lock Me up all day. Those who want to come cannot get in! Tell them to come and adore Me and open My doors.

(10) From Blue Book I

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

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Centered In Christ

Fr. Joe Robinson's
latest homilies for Cycle C for 2012/2013.

$ 10.00

Guiding Light - Reflect
on the Word

Inspiring Homilies
Covering Cycle B of the Litugical Year (20–/2012)

$ 10.00

Guiding Light homily series
—
Reflect on the Word — Cycle B     The Word leaves
an impression on our souls. In my thoughts and reflections are
born a more tangible understanding of these eternal concepts
presented in the Gospels and the readings. Anyone can read a
sentence, but not anyone can absorb it's true meaning. Truth, in
this day and age, is almost a matter of opinion or individual
entitlement. We believe that Christ's truth is our Roman
Catholic Church. We, as priests, champion it's teachings; we are
ambassadors for the Pope and Christ to those faces looking at
us. We are the light by which our congregation reads to reflect
upon real truth and we do it hand in hand. $15

Guiding Light -
Steadfast to the Son

Inspiring Homilies
Covering Cycle A of the Litugical Year

$ 10.00

Guiding Light homily series
— Steadfast to the
Son — Cycle A    The sunflower is a great example of
how we should be steadfastly guided by light. What a
powerful thought that this exceptional plant is not
stuck in one pose day in and day out, yet adaptable and
magnetized to the sun. We feel the same about our Son.
Our heads turns to face Christ as each day presents its
challenges to find light. We join together like plants
in a field and soak up the Son through the pulpit. We
are a warm circle of strength using the wind of our
breath to carry our priests' words, Christ's words, to
new rich soil. $15

Guiding Light -
Focusing on the Word

Inspiring Homilies
Covering Cycle B of the Litugical Year

$ 10.00

Guiding Light — Focusing on the Word — Cycle
B    At times we may feel that our path to Christ is a
bit "out of focus". Like the disciples in the Book of
Mark, this ordinary life clouds our vision of Christ's
Divinity. We may doubt the practicality or possibility
of applying His teachings and example to our modern
life. Cycle B's homilies are a "guiding light" to help
us realize Jesus' Messianic greatness and His promise of
better things to come. $15

Guiding Light - Feed My
Soul

Inspiring Homilies
Covering Cycle C of the Litugical Year

$ 10.00

Guiding Light — Feed My Soul — Cycle C    In
a world rapidly advancing and encouraging personal gain,
we are faced with modern problems. There is a challenge
to find time in our busy schedules for Sunday Mass or a
family meal. We are able to research, shop, bank and
even work without hearing one human voice. It is no
wonder that we may often feel disconnected and famished
at our week's end. In Fr. Joe's third book of homilies
from Cycle C, we are reminded of the charity that Christ
intended us to show each other. We have a calling to
turn the other cheek and be the Good Samaritan to
others. We are rewarded with the Father's kingdom and
love when we are not worthy. We are not left alone or
hungry. $15

Guiding Light - The
Word Alive in Our Hearts

Inspiring Homilies
by Fr. Joe Robinson

$ 5.00

Guiding Light
— The Word Alive in Our Hearts.
—
Cycle A (partial)

Homilies
by the Reverend Joe Robinson given at St. Boniface
Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is a tremendous honor Fr.
Joe has allowed us to share these great gifts with you –
for greater holiness and knowing more and more about
God. $10

Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J.

Here are all the products in this
category:

Books written by the founder of Shepherds of
Christ Ministries

Response in Christ

Fr. Edward J.
Carter gives to the modern Christian a message that will sustain
him.

$ 10.00

Response to God's Love

...God Himself is
the Ultimate Mystery

$ 10.00

Response to God’s Love

by
Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J. In this book Fr. Carter
speaks of God as the ultimate mystery. We can meditate
on the interior life of the Trinity. Fr. Carter tells us
about our uniqueness in the Father's Plan for us, how
the individual Christian, the Church and the world are
in the state of becoming. Imprimatur.
$10

Shepherds of Christ
Spirituality Newsletters 1

Selected Writings
on Spirituality—for All People Editor: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J.
Imprimatur

$ 10.00

Shepherds of Christ
—
Selected Writings on Spirituality for all People

as Published in
Shepherds of Christ Newsletter for Priests. Contains 12
issues of the newsletter from July/August 1994 to
May/June 1996. $15

Spirituality
Newsletters 2

Selected Writings
on Spirituality — for All People Editor: Fr. Edward J. Carter
S.J. Imprimatur

$ 12.00

Shepherds of Christ
—
Volume 2:
by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J. Contains issues 13—29 of
the newsletter (September/October 1996 — Issue 5, 1999)
$15

Shepherds of Christ
Spirituality Newsletters 3

Selected Writings
on Spirituality — for All People Editor: Fr. Edward J. Carter
S.J.

$ 10.00

Shepherds of Christ
—
Volume 3
by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.
Contains Newsletter Issues 1 through 4 of 2000 including
Fr. Carter’s tremendous
Overview of the Spiritual
Life $10

Tell My People

Messages from Jesus
and Mary Author: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. Imprimi Potest

$ 10.00

Tell My People.
Messages from
Jesus and Mary (As given to Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.)    One of Fr. Edward Carter,
S.J.'s Synopsis of the Spiritual Life    From Jesus to
Fr. Carter "On Holy Saturday, 1994, Jesus told me that
on the following day, Easter, I would also begin to
receive messages for others. Our Lord also told me that
some of these were eventually to be published in a
book and here is that book." $10

Spirituality Handbook

Shepherds of Christ
Associates Spirituality Handbook - A Way of Spiritual Life

Author: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. Imprimi Potest

$ 3.00

Spirituality Handbook.

Fr. Edward
Carter, S.J. did 3 synopsis of the spiritual life.
The Spirituality Handbook,
the
Priestly
Newsletter 20he Tell My People book.
The way of spiritual life proposed to the members of
Shepherds of Christ Associates is centered in
consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. All
aspects of the spiritual life discussed below should be
viewed as means to help members develop their lives in
consecration to Christ, the Sacred Heart, and to Mary,
the Immaculate Heart. $3

The Spirituality of
Fatima

Fatima: The
Setting, The Message, The Spirituality of Consecration

$ 5.00

The Spirituality of
Fatima by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J. The Fatima
apparitions and messages received official Church
approval in 1930. In giving her official approval to the
Fatima event, the Church tells us that what took place
at Fatima involving the three young visionaries is
worthy of our belief. $5

Shepherds of Christ
6:20 Prayers CD

Holy Spirit Novena,
Associates Prayer Manual and the Rosary Led by: Fr. Edward J.
Carter S.J.

$ 10.00

Priestly Newsletter
2000 Issue 1

Audio CD - Read by
Father Edward J. Carter

$ 10.00

Priestly Newsletter
—
2000 #1 — CD. — Christ
is Our Strength — Fr. Edward Carter, S.J. read it the
year he died. It is so beautiful. "This brief
passage contains one of the greatest lessons of the
spiritual life. As we progress along our spiritual
journey, we become increasingly aware of how weak we are
in our—selves, but how strong we are in Christ. To
experience our weakness involves suffering. The degree
and kind of suffering can vary. The suffering can
include the experience of the classical dark night of
the spirit as described by St. John of the Cross. One of
the main purposes of the dark night is to make a person
keenly aware of his or her helplessness without God."
quote by Fr. Carter from the newsletter $10

Shepherds of Christ Holy Spirit Novena

Holy Spirit Novena by: Rita Ring

$ 1.00 plus postage

Holy
Spirit Novena Booklet. In four languages with the
Imprimatur with 18 scripture readings for two complete
novenas – this very powerful Holy Spirit Novena has prayers
for prayers for Protection by the Blood of Jesus, Healing,
Strength and Light, To Be One with God, Father, Son and Holy
Spirit, One with Jesus, To Dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and
Mary, Prayer for the Holy Spirit and His Gifts, and the Word
Alive in Our Hearts. All these prayers take about 10 minutes
daily recited out loud. $1

Shepherds of Christ Holy Spirit Novena CD

Holy Spirit Novena Read by: Rita Ring

$ 10.00
plus postage

Holy
Spirit Novena CD. Prayers and scripture readings from
the Holy Spirit Novena Booklet read by Rita Ring. $10

Shepherds of Christ Prayer
Manual

Shepherds of Christ Associates
Prayers
Author: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J.

$
.50
plus postage

Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual.
The Shepherds of Christ has prayer chapters all over the
world praying for the priests, the Church and the world.
These prayers that Father Carter compiled in the summer
of 1994 began this worldwide network of prayer.
Currently the prayers are in eight languages with the
Church’s Imprimatur. We have prayed daily for the
priests, the Church, and the world since 1994.
Associates are called to join prayer Chapters and help
us circulate the newsletter centered on spreading
devotion to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart and
helping to renew the Church through greater holiness.
Please form a Prayer Chapter & order a Prayer Manual.

Statues/Religious Items

Statues, Crucifixes, and
Religious Artwork

These items are very special additions to your
home or place of worship.

Special 12"
Holy Family Statue with Glass

Ivory gowns with gold trim.

$
200.00 plus shipping

Special 12"
Our Lady of Guadalupe Statue with Glass

White or Ivory gown with gold
trim.

$
100.00
each plus shipping

Special 12" Sacred Heart or
Immaculate Heart Statues with Glass

White gown with gold trim.

$
100.00 each plus shipping

Special 12" Sacred Heart or Immaculate
Heart Statues with Glass

Ivory gown with gold trim.

$
100.00
each plus shipping

Special –" Our Lady of Fatima/Clearwater
Statue with Glass

White or Ivory gown with gold
trim.

$
60.00
each plus shipping

Blue Crystal Rosary

Rosary with the Image of Our Lady of Clearwater

8mm -
$ 40.00

plus
shipping

Red
Crystal Rosary

Rosary with the Image of Our Lady of Clearwater

8mm - $ 40.00 plus
shipping

Clear Crystal Rosary

Rosary with the Image of Our Lady of Clearwater

8mm - $ 40.00
plus shipping



^{Given
March
21,
2014}


R. Pray for
These Things

1) Pray for the
Pope & hierarchy
to help us start
prayer chapters.

2) Pray for Dan,
Sally Jo,
Richard, Carol,
Margaret, Sue,


Jack, Jean,
Amanda, Matthew,
Special
intentions.

3)
Pray for the
priests, the
Church and the
world!

4) Pray for the
spread of prayer
chapters,

also for the
spread of
priests doing
prayer chapters.

5) Pray for the
spread of Blue
Books.

6) People going
to Florida and
China.

7) Vocations to
all 7
categories.

8) Pray for
spread of
Consecration and
Rosary.

9) Pray for pope
helping us.
               10)
Pray for Jeff -
sales & health.
Pray for Nick.
               –)
Blue Book 19 and
cover and all
involved.

For our
Publisher and
all involved
               12)
All intentions
on my list,
Jerry's list.

13) Priests
getting Fr.
Joe's book.

14) Pray for Fr.
Joe's new book,
cover & funds
for printing &
postage.

15) Donors and
members and
their families.

16) Healing of
the Family tree.

17) Dan &
Melanie,
Catherine & mom,
Gary, Mary Jo,

Jim & statues,
Fr. Ken,
Monsignor,
Kerry, Tom &
wife.

18) All who
asked us to pray
for them.

19) All we
promised to pray
for.

20) Rita, John,
Doris, Sheila,
Jerry, Regina,
Sanja,

Betty, Sophie,
Lisa, Eileen,
Fr. Mike, Louie,
Laverne,

2 Dons, Mary
Ellen, Fr. Joe,
all priests
helping us,

Ed, Jimmy,
Steve, a special
couple, Rosie &
all involved.

21) 2 babies and
moms.

22) Funds and
insurance.

23) Jerry's
garage.

24) In
thanksgiving for
gifts, graces, &
blessings
received.

25) Spread the
Blood of Jesus
on all of us
here.

26) Consecrate
all hearts.

27) Cast the
devil out of all
of us here and
all in Movement.

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Telephone: (toll free) 1-888-2–-3041 or (812) 273-8405

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