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July 22, 2003 - Feast of St. Mary Magdalene
July 23rd Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 8 Period I.The Novena Rosary Mysteries
for July 23rd are the Luminous.
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4:00 a.m. - Mass4:37 a.m. - A Blue Book Reading or Two and a Tribute
to Mary on Mother's Day - May 11, 20035:57 a.m. - Morning Offering & Prayer for Union with Jesus
6:02 a.m. - Mary's Message
6:08 a.m. - Songs from Jesus
6:20 a.m. - 6:20 prayers led by Father Carter
Holy Spirit Novena
Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
Rosary7:24 a.m. - Consecration - July 31, 1999
8:56 a.m. - Newsletter 2001 Issue 1 (Grace)
10:04 a.m. - Live Rosary November 13, 1996
11:24 a.m. - Mary's Message & talk given by Father Carter
12:04 p.m. - Nursing Home #1
12:45 p.m. - Prayer for Union with Jesus
12:46 p.m. - May 5, 2001 Rosary
1:59 p.m. - About Shepherds of Christ - talk given June 29, 2003
3:18 p.m. - Children praying the Shepherds of Christ prayers
3:36 p.m. - Morning Offering
3:40 p.m. - Songs from Jesus
4:00 p.m. - Mass
4:37 p.m. - Children's Rosary July 15, 1995
5:29 p.m. - Response to God's Love chapter 2
6:12 p.m. - Prayer for Union with Jesus
6:13 p.m. - Songs from Jesus
6:20
p.m. - 6:20 prayers led by Father Carter
Holy Spirit Novena
Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
7:24 p.m. - Newsletter 2000 Issue 2 (Suffering: A Source of Life)
8:58 p.m. - December 12, 2002 feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
9:46 p.m. - Nursing Home #15
10:25 p.m. - Children's Rosary December 25, 1994
11:00 p.m. - Songs & Messages October 1, 1995
12:03 a.m. - Mary by Night - January 5, 2003
1:05 a.m. - Tell My People read by Father Carter
2:36 a.m. - Morning Offering & prayers
2:48 a.m. - Mary's Message
2:54 a.m. - Choose Life
3:56 a.m. - Song: Your Presence Pervades My Soul
4:00 a.m. - Mass
A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb
the Bridegroom of the soul
Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.
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July 22, 2003
Messenger: Tomorrow will begin the 9 days for the
Novena of St. Ignatius. All month we have
reflected somewhat on the writings of St.
Ignatius.
Dear St. Ignatius
We pray through your powerful intercession
to be holy. We pray through the intercession of
Our Lady of Clearwater and Fr. Carter for help
to be holy. Help us to let go of attachments that keep
us stuck. Help us to do God's holy will. Help us
to act for the honor and glory of God.
We pray for healing of our memory and
hurts in our heart.
We pray for grace.
St. Ignatius help us.
Today I want to begin, so those wishing
to think especially about the Feast of
St. Ignatius, can use these writings as a
special time before the Feast of St. Ignatius.
July 22, 2003 message continues
Messenger: Fr. Carter is our founder — he gave us a good example.
I love St. Ignatius so deeply. It is a love I feel God
has given to me. I feel God has helped me
to have this love. On the Masses on the Feast
of St. Ignatius I would be given special ecstasies.
I so deeply love the readings of the Feast of
St. Ignatius. Fr. Carter had a special Jesuit
book that had very special readings.
Today is a very special Feast. I see Mary
Magdalene and Mary under the cross above
our altar in our Eucharistic Center of
China, Indiana.
July 22, 2003 message continues
Messenger: Here is a message I got from Our Lady.
That day I had a car accident.
January 2, 1999
Mary speaks: I am Our Lady of Snows. I come to cover the earth with a soft white blanket of my love.
I come to bring peace to the earth. I tell you to let go of the anxiety in your heart and experience my peace and His love.
I am your heavenly Mother. I come to hold you and caress you and take you to my Immaculate Heart.
July 22, 2003 message continues
Messenger: We are imperfect, we are human creatures —
In looking under the cross we see St.
Mary Magdalene that once was a sinner, but
changed and loved Christ so very much —
We see Mary, Our Spiritual Mother, Mother
so pure.
We see St. John.
John 19: 25-27
Jesus and his mother
Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, ‘Woman, this is your son.’ Then to the disciple he said, ‘This is your mother.’ And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.
July 22, 2003 message continues
Messenger: In our spiritual journey here below we
struggle with relationships — relationship
with God, relationship with others, relationship
with ourselves.
Fr. Carter called this — the Three Loves —
1) Love of God
2) Love of Others
3) Love of Ourselves
Jesus showed Himself to Mary Magdalene
after the Resurrection.
John 20: 1-2, 11-18
It was very early on the first day of the week and still dark, when Mary of Magdala came to the tomb. She saw that the stone had been moved away from the tomb and came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb,’ she said, ‘and we don’t know where they have put him.’
The appearance to Mary of Magdala
But Mary was standing outside near the tomb, weeping. Then, as she wept, she stooped to look inside, and saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had been, one at the head, the other at the feet. They said, ‘Woman, why are you weeping?’ ‘They have taken my Lord away,’ she replied, ‘and I don’t know where they have put him.’ As she said this she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, though she did not realise that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?’ Supposing him to be the gardener, she said, ‘Sir, if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and remove him.’ Jesus said, ‘Mary!’ She turned round then and said to him in Hebrew, ‘Rabbuni!’—which means Master. Jesus said to her, ‘Do not cling to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to the brothers, and tell them: I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ So Mary of Magdala told the disciples, ‘I have seen the Lord,’ and that he had said these things to her.
July 22, 2003 message continues
Messenger: We are in slavery.
We are the daughters and sons of Adam and Eve.
Here is today's first reading
Exodus 14: 21 -- 15:1
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh drove the sea back with a strong easterly wind all night and made the sea into dry land. The waters were divided and the Israelites went on dry ground right through the sea, with walls of water to right and left of them. The Egyptians gave chase, and all Pharaoh’s horses, chariots and horsemen went into the sea after them. In the morning watch, Yahweh looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud and threw the Egyptian army into confusion. He so clogged their chariot wheels that they drove on only with difficulty, which made the Egyptians say, ‘Let us flee from Israel, for Yahweh is fighting on their side against the Egyptians!’ Then Yahweh said to Moses, ‘Stretch out your hand over the sea and let the waters flow back on the Egyptians and on their chariots and their horsemen.’ Moses stretched out his hand over the sea and, as day broke, the sea returned to its bed. The fleeing Egyptians ran straight into it, and Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea. The returning waters washed right over the chariots and horsemen of Pharaoh’s entire army, which had followed the Israelites into the sea; not a single one of them was left. The Israelites, however, had marched through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water to right and left of them. That day, Yahweh rescued Israel from the clutches of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the sea–shore. When Israel saw the mighty deed that Yahweh had performed against the Egyptians, the people revered Yahweh and put their faith in Yahweh and in Moses, his servant.
Song of victory
It was then that Moses and the Israelites sang this song in Yahweh’s honour:
I shall sing to Yahweh,
for he has covered himself in glory,
horse and rider
he has thrown into the sea.
Exodus 15: 8-10,12,17
A blast from your nostrils
and the waters piled high;
the waves stood firm as a dyke;
the bed of the sea became firm ground.The enemy said,
‘I shall give chase and overtake,
‘I shall share out the spoil
and glut myself on them,
‘I shall draw my sword,
my hand will destroy them.’
You blew with your breath,
the sea closed over them;
they sank like lead in the terrible waters.You stretched your right hand out,
the earth swallowed them!You will bring them in and plant them
on the mountain which is your heritage,
the place which you, Yahweh,
have made your dwelling,
the sanctuary, Yahweh,
prepared by your own hands.
received Feast of Holy Rosary
October 7, 1994
July 22, 2003 message continues
Messenger: Here is the end of the Bible —
Revelation 22: 16 -21
EPILOGUE
I, Jesus, have sent my angel to attest these things to you for the sake of the churches. I am the sprig from the root of David and the bright star of the morning.
The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come!’ Let everyone who listens answer, ‘Come!’ Then let all who are thirsty come: all who want it may have the water of life, and have it free.
This is my solemn attestation to all who hear the prophecies in this book: if anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him every plague mentioned in the book; if anyone cuts anything out of the prophecies in this book, God will cut off his share of the tree of life and of the holy city, which are described in the book.
The one who attests these things says: I am indeed coming soon.
Amen; come, Lord Jesus.
May the grace of the Lord Jesus be with you all. Amen.
July 22, 2003 message continues
Messenger: The BIBLE
Beginning ADAM & EVE sinned
Genesis Chapter 3
The Fall
Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, ‘Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?’ The woman answered the snake, ‘We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, "You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death." ’ Then the snake said to the woman, ‘No! You will not die! God knows in fact that the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good from evil.’ The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was enticing for the wisdom that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realised that they were naked. So they sewed fig–leaves together to make themselves loin–cloths.
The man and his wife heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. But Yahweh God called to the man. ‘Where are you?’ he asked. ‘I heard the sound of you in the garden,’ he replied. ‘I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.’ ‘Who told you that you were naked?’ he asked. ‘Have you been eating from the tree I forbade you to eat?’ The man replied, ‘It was the woman you put with me; she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.’ Then Yahweh God said to the woman, ‘Why did you do that?’ The woman replied, ‘The snake tempted me and I ate.’
Then Yahweh God said to the snake, ‘Because you have done this,
Accursed be you of
all animals wild and tame!
On your belly you will go
and on dust you will feed
as long as you live.
I shall put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
it will bruise your head
and you will strike its heel.’To the woman he said:
I shall give you intense pain
in childbearing,
you will give birth to your children
in pain.
Your yearning will be for your husband,
and he will dominate you.To the man he said, ‘Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat,
Accursed be the soil because of you!
Painfully will you get your food from it
as long as you live.
It will yield you brambles and thistles,
as you eat the produce of the land.
By the sweat of your face
will you earn your food,
until you return to the ground,
as you were taken from it.
For dust you are
and to dust you shall return.’The man named his wife ‘Eve’ because she was the mother of all those who live. Yahweh God made tunics of skins for the man and his wife and clothed them. Then Yahweh God said, ‘Now that the man has become like one of us in knowing good from evil, he must not be allowed to reach out his hand and pick from the tree of life too, and eat and live for ever!’ So Yahweh God expelled him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he had been taken. He banished the man, and in front of the garden of Eden he posted the great winged creatures and the fiery flashing sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.
near the
end of the
Bible
Revelation 21: 1-4
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared now, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride dressed for her husband. Then I heard a loud voice call from the throne, ‘Look, here God lives among human beings. He will make his home among them; they will be his people, and he will be their God, God–with–them. He will wipe away all tears from their eyes; there will be no more death, and no more mourning or sadness or pain. The world of the past has gone.’
July 22, 2003 message continues
Messenger: In between is the story of our Savior
His life, His death and resurrection.
The Divine God is our Savior to save
us from our sins.
The devil tries to get us to sin.
God comes to save us.
We have a fallen human nature.
We must model our lives after the New
Adam and the New Eve, Jesus and Mary.
The priest said the crossing of the
Red Sea is a symbol of baptism —
We see we must keep living out
our baptismal vows to
partake in the resurrection.
Some people have had to live in homes
where they had to live in a survival
mode — they lived as victims —
today they may still be trying to
live this victim life by projecting
their problems on others and accusing
others of victimizing them.
They may always live in a dark
cloud seeing those over them as
victimizing them and holding
them bound. They heap all
their hurts from the past on the
new person in authority they
themselves believe has victimized
them. They live in a survival mode —
feeling the world is not a safe place —
people above them are thinking things
about them, people underneath give
them problems too.
The key is within — they live in this
survival mode from youth —
they still live this way —
They create problems with those in
authority by disobedience and other
measures, then they play their
victimization out on the leader.
Who would want the venom and hurt
of a wounded child giving their load
to someone else. The superior of a
wounded child must recognize this
patterned behavior and address it.
We see in St. Ignatius Exercises the
discernment of spirits. On retreat
Fr. Carter always had me begin
with the discernment of spirits.
The devil works in the memory of many.
A grown person can have so much hurt they
don't really remember all the events only
the hurt. In the pain in their adult life
they may "heap" all the reasons for that
pain of the past on the authority figure now
or others around them now. A person
in authority may find it very difficult
to correct this person in anyway
because they revert back to the
old mode of being mistreated by
the authority as a child. They never
want any corrections.
How does one in authority communicate
and get any work accomplished if
one underneath them goes into this
mode of the wounded child if any
correction is given. It is in
working toward a goal, in teaching
and doing things correctly things get
done properly. How do you instruct
them or tell them what they are to do?
They may pout and act wounded as a
child for over a week.
Some will attach themselves to others, in an
attempt to finally work out hidden
hurts. They think this person, this
place will be the perfect place to
undo all that unfinished hurt
instances of the past. An attempt
is made to make it all work right,
this time with new players —
AND THEN, THEY THINK, THAT
UNFINISHED SINERIO, the PAIN
in the past will end with a happy ending
(everybody loving & supporting them).
Attachments to others to make us happy is
very silly — only God can really make
us truly happy — the thirsting within
ourselves will never be satisfied here
in this life —
I have longed for completeness in Him
so deep the pain is awful.
I know Him in the ecstasies and I want
Him more and more and more and I long
for heaven —
this is the state of the man here below
to be hungering for completeness in
God — to desire to be possessed
by Him — to have the heavenly embrace
and live forever in the bliss of the
beatific vision.
We are hungering souls here below and
our souls are not at rest until
we rest in Him forever.
Unhealthy attachments to others will only
leave us frustrated — no human person
can satisfy the craving of the soul.
I long to be in a place of union with Him
here below especially in the Eucharist,
where I can put aside the worldly
distractions and be united to Him.
Some people see interaction with others
a threat to the spiritual life.
Fr. Carter speaks of 3 loves
(1) love of God
(2) love of others
(3) love of oneself
If any of the three are missing we are not
going to develop properly on our
spiritual journey.
We may not wish to deal with someone
who projects their hurt feelings on
us. Some like a baby crying out
who have been robbed of the love
they deserved and security as
children are searching life long
for the arms of the accepting parent
who may have been a workaholic, sex addict,
alcoholic, but literally left the child
feel abandoned many times and aching in
their little hurt. Or the child cries for the
imperfect ways the parents raised them.
What big parent could they find to heal —
how do they even know when they
hold on so tightly to their mates and
"holler" at them because the child
inside cries to be held and accepted.
It is in relating with others in intimate
relationships and in communities,
at work, we see the little wounded
children come out of the adults.
It isn't always helpful for one to go live
alone, since they can't get along —
When every one tells you, you need to
change something — it is for your
own growth to be more perfected
like Christ, that you must listen or
be a menace to all around you.
Some people do things years after years
after years and blame everyone
around them when they make
everybody wait or do something
likewise offending.
Some things are so habitual, for example
being in a survivor mode from
youth, that someone carries on these
things into adulthood — projecting
the unaccepting eyes of parents
etc. onto new people, always having
a survival mode to deal with inside —
thinking — "this is not safe, the place and
people are hostile", new place, new
players, same old play from the
mind of a little child with hurts deep
inside, always looking for unfinished
business to have a happy ending, to
once and for all be loved like the little
child from all around them.
Life is tough, we must live in the moment,
we can't hide — to live out our imperfect
ways or we will never see how we have
to change.
Being with others helps us see what we need
to change.
As married couples grow in greater oneness
in God, they must let go of destructive
behavior patterns that have developed —
and seek perfection, seek greater oneness.
Some married couples just settle in dealing
with each other's imperfections living
very dysfunctionally.
A person that is very dysfunctional will go into
a community and do all they can to
change that community to be dysfunctional
like them, because they want the
familiar, they want all to do their dance.
In many dysfunctional homes, the parties
got more dysfunctional because of force,
abuse etc.
Alcoholic homes are usually very dysfunctional,
abuse is used to keep the family in line. The
rules are imposed on others.
A community of religious cannot function
and do a particular task if there is not
the element of structure and support.
A person entering a community taking the
vow of poverty, chastity and obedience must
willingly submit to the vows of the order.
If they enter a community and do not
want to submit to obedience they will
perform all tasks as one being
oppressed and not with a whole heart.
Ignatius called his Jesuits to poverty,
chastity and obedience. When one goes
into religious life they must pray to be
faithful to those vows. They willingly
submit themselves to those vows. The
secret in peace is saying yes to the
superiors placed over them. If a person
feels God is calling them to live out their
vocation in a particular order, they must pray
for the grace to be faithful to the vows and
be loyal to the order. St. Ignatius wanted
holy men, not attached to inordinate attachments,
giving themselves willingly to serving God for
His honor and glory.
The Jesuits require that the men examine
their conscience for ten minutes twice daily
and do the daily office and make an 8 day
retreat yearly from St. Ignatius Spiritual
Exercises.
The world is preaching to us —
sex outside of marriage, be number
one, be selfish; the world tells us
things that weaken authority — go
over the parents, spreading some lies
about the Church because of individuals
sins; the world has violent movies,
sexual allurements — and in the
middle of all this comes this message
from Jesus on the Feast of St. Ignatius
Given to Father Carter
on the Feast of St. Ignatius
July 31, 1994
Words of Jesus to Members of
Shepherds of Christ Associates:"My beloved priest-companion, I intend to use the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the movement, Shepherds of Christ Associates, in a powerful way for the renewal of My Church and the world.
"I will use the newsletter and the chapters of Shepherds of Christ Associates as a powerful instrument for spreading devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart.
"I am calling many to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. To all of them I will give great blessings. I will use them as instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy Spirit."
- Message from Jesus to Father Edward J. Carter, S.J., Founder, as given on July 31, 1994,
feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)end of July 31, 1994 message given to Fr. Carter
July 22, 2003 message continues
Messenger: This message from Mary at Fatima —
Excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima
Besides the messages associated with the major Fatima apparitions, there were other revelations given by Our Lady. Before Jacinta died, she told of other messages given her (during her illness) by Mary:
... Priests must be pure, very pure. They should not busy themselves with anything except what concerns the Church and souls. The disobedience of priests, to their superiors and to the Holy Father, is very displeasing to Our Lord... (19)
NOTE:
1 9. For background material on Fatima, I am particularly indebted to
Our Lady of Fatima's Peace Plan from Heaven (Rockford: TAN
Books and Publishers, Inc., 1983). p. 9-10.
July 22, 2003 message continues
Messenger: Ignatius wanted holy men in his order.
Men who live by this retreat of St.
Ignatius will come to be more
perfected in their way of life.
Fr. Carter lived his vows of poverty,
chastity and obedience.
He was obedient to his superiors.
He suffered persecution and heartache
from what he was asked to do and
how he was received.
I have a whole wall full of Fr. Carter's books —
they are centered in love and Christ.
Every book —
Fr. Carter was humble — he believed
the messages — he supported
me, he stood up for the messages
and he said if people didn't
believe they could not be leaders
in the Shepherds of Christ Movement.
Fr. Carter told me in June, 1994 that Jesus
told him to take care of me and
help me anyway he could to do
what Jesus was telling me to do.
Fr. Carter was there daily about 4 months
when Mary first appeared —
but the Movement wasn't for the followers
of Fr. Carter —
Fr. Carter made it clear Jesus was running
the Movement through these messages.
Message after message the Movement
unfolded and Mary appeared to me about
500 times in an old seminary where the
corner fell off giving me and Fr. Carter
messages to form this Movement
Shepherds of Christ.
July 22, 2003 message continues
Messenger: The corner fell off the old seminary on Lucia's
birthday March 22, 1994.
I never thought I would live my life doing
this, I taught math 20 years part-time,
college math and several years in high school -
I had 4 children and nursed babies.
God called me —
I heard my name in the Church in Dayton
after communion —
in an audible voice from right
behind me, it was silent and I heard —
RITA — the voice said
I looked around and there was no one.
No one was even close to me.
We must want holiness —
No matter how far the world is off —
That doesn't mean reciting a "battery" of
prayers —
That means holiness —
that means love in our hearts —
that means praying for our vocations
Fr. Carter said —
Excerpt from February 1, 1998
Perseverance in the Movement—all vocations, all callings need perseverance. I pray for perseverance as a Jesuit every day of my life. I pray for perseverance. I’m suggesting to all of us that we pray for perseverance in the Movement and not just a status quo type of perseverance, but pray for a perseverance which will allow us to dynamically grow and be greater apostles in the Movement. And we have to take the means to persevere.
July 22, 2003 message continues
Messenger: then Fr. Carter left in tears
July 22, 2003 message continues
Messenger: that means asking to help to die to our imperfections.
What a leader God picked for us
a Jesuit priest with a doctorate in
theology, author of 18 books on
the spiritual life, but gentle, docile,
open to the messages that formed his
life later on and influenced the Priestly
Newsletters.
He said they were our Newsletters.
Jesus through His messages led Fr. Carter
deeper in the heart to express his
deep feelings of love of God and love
for all men in the Priestly Newsletter.
Deeper and deeper — each Newsletter a
Spiritual Direction from Jesus
to lead the priest into this
deep era of love in the
Reign of the Sacred Heart.
So many in the world, don't believe
in Jesus and Jesus gives these
messages.
Given to Father Carter
on the Feast of St. Ignatius
July 31, 1994
Words of Jesus to Members of
Shepherds of Christ Associates:"My beloved priest-companion, I intend to use the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the movement, Shepherds of Christ Associates, in a powerful way for the renewal of My Church and the world.
"I will use the newsletter and the chapters of Shepherds of Christ Associates as a powerful instrument for spreading devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart.
"I am calling many to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. To all of them I will give great blessings. I will use them as instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy Spirit."
- Message from Jesus to Father Edward J. Carter, S.J., Founder, as given on July 31, 1994,
feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)end of July 31, 1994 message given to Fr. Carter
August 1, 1994
given to Rita Ring
Pray For The Success Of The Priestly Newsletter - Shepherds of Christ
Messenger: The following is the first official message I received before the statue of Mary at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center. It is a personal message for Father Carter.
Mary speaks: (in front of the glowing statue of Our Lady of Sorrows) I am the Immaculate Heart. My Heart is glowing for love of all my beloved children. I am your most loving Mother. I am with you this day. Pray for the success of the priestly newsletter Shepherds of Christ. I am guarding your way. You will receive such graces to accomplish this task! Grace from God is so abundantly bestowed on you and will lead to the success of this endeavor! Pray for this cause at the Center. The priests will lead the people to the love of My beloved Son. This is no little task. It will take many prayers and graces. Pray hard, little one. Your prayers will change many hearts.
I am Mary, your Immaculate Mother. I bring this message to My beloved priest-son.
end of August 1, 1994 message
October 13, 1994
The Birth of the Full Ministries
of the Shepherds of Christ
"I wish to share with you part of a message which Jesus gave us on October 13, 1994. The message tells us about the expansion of the Shepherds of Christ movement:
'My beloved priest-companion, today I come to you with another mission. I am asking you to establish Shepherds of Christ Ministries. At My request you have already begun the priestly newsletter, "Shepherds of Christ", and the prayer chapters, Shepherds of Christ Associates...
'I am giving you this message on this day, the 77th Anniversary of the Great Apparition at Fatima, because of the close connection between the Shepherds of Christ movement and the Fatima message. The Fatima message is centered in devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart, especially in consecration to Our Hearts. Shepherds of Christ Ministries is also centered in devotion to Our Hearts. I will use Shepherds of Christ Ministries as a great instrument in helping to bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. When this occurs, My Church and the world will be experiencing the great era of peace promised by My Mother at Fatima.
'Today, then, October 13, 1994, the 77th Anniversary of the Great Apparition at Fatima, marks the birth of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I pour forth the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock.'
end of October 13, 1994 message given to Fr. Carter
Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus
My dear fellow Associate Members,
Jesus is calling special apostles to join a new division of the Shepherds of Christ Movement. Here is a message from Jesus given to Father Carter:
My beloved priest-companion, I am requesting that a new prayer movement be started under the direction of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I am asking for volunteers who are willing to pray before the Blessed Sacrament for one hour, twice-weekly. Members of the Shepherds of Christ prayer chapters, as well as others, are to be invited to join this movement.
These apostles are to pray for the intentions I am giving you. For part of the hour they are to use the prayers of the Shepherds of Christ Associates Handbook. They may spend the rest of the hour as they so choose.
I will use this new prayer movement within My Shepherds of Christ Ministries in a powerful way to help in the renewal of My Church and the world. I will give great graces to those who join this movement. The name, Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, is to be given to this movement.
I am inviting My beloved Rita Ring to be coordinator for this activity.
I pour out the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock.
This is indeed a special calling for us to unite in one heart with His Eucharistic Heart and pray for the following intentions:
- For the spread of the devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary culminating in the reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of the Immaculate Heart.
- For the Pope.
- For all bishops of the world.
- For all priests.
- For all sisters and brothers in the religious life.
- For all members of the Shepherds of Christ Movement, and for the spread of this movement to the world.
- For all members of the Catholic Church.
- For all members of the human family.
- For all souls in purgatory.
end of Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart message
July 22, 2003 message continues
Messenger: Jesus gave these messages to us and
1½ years later Mary appeared on the
building and then after Fr. Carter
died Jesus appeared like this to me
February 5, 2001
July 22, 2003 message continues
Messenger: to tell us He will take care of His
Movement and we sent the Priestly
Newsletter Book II to 85,000 priests
that month — with the words of Jesus
to lead the world into the Reign of His
Most Sacred Heart.
First day
Excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, by Louis J. Puhl, S.J.
328. RULES FOR DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS
IIFurther rules for understanding the different movements produced in the soul. They serve for a more accurate discernment of spirits and are more suitable for the second week
329. 1. It is characteristic of God and His Angels, when they act upon the soul, to give true happiness and spiritual joy, and to banish all the sadness and disturbances which are caused by the enemy.
It is characteristic of the evil one to fight against such happiness and consolation by proposing fallacious reasonings, subtilties, and continual deceptions.330. 2. God alone can give consolation to the soul without any previous cause. It belongs solely to the Creator to come into a soul, to leave it, to act upon it, to draw it wholly to the love of His Divine Majesty. I said without previous cause, that is, without any preceding perception or knowledge of any subject by which a soul might be led to such a consolation through its own acts of intellect and will.
331. 3. If a cause precedes, both the good angel and the evil spirit can give consolation to a soul, but for a quite different purpose. The good angel consoles for the progress of the soul, that it may advance and rise to what is more perfect. The evil spirit consoles for purposes that are the contrary, and that afterwards he might draw the soul to his own perverse intentions and wickedness.
332. 4. It is a mark of the evil spirit to assume the appearance of an angel of light. He begins by suggesting thoughts that are suited to a devout soul, and ends by suggesting his own. For example, he will suggest holy and pious thoughts that are wholly in conformity with the sanctity of the soul. Afterwards, he will endeavor little by little to end by drawing the soul into his hidden snares and evil designs.
333. 5. We must carefully observe the whole course of our thoughts. If the beginning and middle and end of the course of thoughts are wholly good and directed to what is entirely right, it is a sign that they are from the good angel. But the course of thoughts suggested to us may terminate in something evil, or distracting, or less good than the soul had formerly proposed to do. Again, it may end in what weakens the soul, or disquiets it; or by destroying the peace, tranquility, and quiet which it had before, it may cause disturbance to the soul. These things are a clear sign that the thoughts are proceeding from the evil spirit, the enemy of our progress and eternal salvation.
334. 6. When the enemy of our human nature has been detected and recognized by the trail of evil marking his course and by the wicked end to which he leads us, it will be profitable for one who has been tempted to review immediately the whole course of the temptation. Let him consider the series of good thoughts, how they arose, how the evil one gradually attempted to make him step down from the state of spiritual delight and joy in which he was, till finally he drew him to his wicked designs. The purpose of this review is that once such an experience has been understood and carefully observed, we may guard ourselves for the future against the customary deceits of the enemy.
335. 7. In souls that are progressing to greater perfection, the action of the good angel is delicate, gentle, delightful. It may be compared to a drop of water penetrating a sponge.
The action of the evil spirit upon such souls is violent, noisy, and disturbing. It may be compared to a drop of water falling upon a stone.
In souls that are going from bad to worse, the action of the spirits mentioned above is just the reverse. The reason for this is to be sought in the opposition or similarity of these souls to the different kinds of spirits. When the disposition is contrary to that of the spirits, they enter with noise and commotion that are easily perceived. When the disposition is similar to that of the spirits, they enter silently, as one coming into his own house when the doors are open.336. 8. When consolation is without previous cause, as was said, there can be no deception in it, since it can proceed from God our Lord only. But a spiritual person who has received such a consolation must consider it very attentively, and must cautiously distinguish the actual time of the consolation from the period which follows it. At such a time the soul is still fervent and favored with the grace and aftereffects of the consolation which has passed. In this second period the soul frequently forms various resolutions and plans which are not granted directly by God our Lord. They may come from our own reasoning on the relations of our concepts and on the consequences of our judgments, or they may come from the good or evil spirit. Hence, they must be carefully examined before they are given full approval and put into execution.
First Principle and Foundation
Man is created to praise, reverence
and serve God our Lord, and by
this means to save his soul.
Sing: Take Lord Receive
From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius,
by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p. 2546. PRAYER. In the preparatory prayer I will beg God
our Lord for grace that all my intentions, actions,
and operations may be directed purely to the
praise and service of His Divine Majesty.
— Remembering my past sins, I will
ask God to forgive me for all
the sins of my past life and
tell him I am sorry for my sins.
Fr. Carter always told me in each
confession to say I was sorry
for all the sins of my past life.
I went almost every day to confession —
now I don't get to go so frequently
anymore.
Think of our sins.
Remember how we offend God
when we sin.
Tell God we are sorry for
offending Him.
Farter Carter always said in his Newsletter
“What have I done for Christ?
What am I doing for Christ?
What ought I do for Christ?”
— St. Ignatius in the Spiritual Exercises
wants us to recall to mind our sins —
year by year — make a list he says —
recall how severe my sins were
We must be sorry for those we hurt —
tell God we are sorry
Thank God for forgiving our sins.
Say the Our Father
— Think about hell —
Excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima
July 13, 1917
"During this same July apparition, Mary showed the three children a vision of Hell. She told them:
"You have seen Hell, where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish, in the world, devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If people do what I tell you, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.(13)
NOTE:
13. For background material on Fatima, I am particularly indebted to
Our Lady of Fatima's Peace Plan from Heaven
(Rockford: TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., 1983).end of excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima
Excerpt from January 5, 2003
Mary speaks: I am Mary your Mother. My children are hurting and many are dropping into hell like rain. My children will you help me?
Excerpt from Tell My People
Mary: "My beloved priest-son, I have led you to greatly increase your prayers and sacrifices for others. I have often reminded you of my teaching at Fatima--that many souls go to Hell because they have no one to pray and make sacrifices for them. My Immaculate Heart longs that all my little ones be saved.
Excerpt from October 13, 1996
Over and over again I heard Our Lady call out, "Please, please the souls are dropping into hell like rain. You must go out to the world and spread the love of my Son."
Excerpt from February 26, 2003
Jesus speaks: Your papers, your news, your
scandals and as My Mother
has told you
Souls are dropping into hell like rain.
pray for forgiveness for our sins
thank God for forgiving our sins
Tuesday is Healing Night
Join us on the radio 6:20
Pray the prayers with Fr. Carter tape
Excerpt from November 4, 1998
Jesus speaks: Every Tuesday the rosary is to be conducted for healing, mostly healing in the hearts. Great grace is given on Tuesdays for healing.
Pray for grace to be holy
Novena to the Infant of Prague
(to be prayed hourly if possible)
O Jesus, who said, "Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you," through the intercession of Mary, Your most holy Mother, I knock, I seek, I ask that my prayer be granted.
O Jesus, who said, "All that you ask of the Father in My Name He will grant you," through the intercession of Mary, Your most holy Mother, I humbly and urgently ask Your Father in Your Name that my prayer be granted.O Jesus, who said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My word shall not pass," through the intercession of Mary, Your most holy Mother, I feel confident that my prayer will be granted.
July 22, 2003 message continues
Messenger: Jesus says to write a letter every day to
Him and open the Blue Books.
He said He will help us.
Pray for grace to let go of attachments
that keep us from being holy.
We're desperately in need of
funds.
Envelopes are ready
to be mailed for priests
but we don't have
any postage money.
We need money for the
English speaking priestly mailing.
You can put it on your credit card,
call Morrow.
Shepherds of Christ Ministries
P.O. Box 193
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(toll free) 1-888-211-3041
1-513-932-4451
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