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July 26, 2003
July 27th Holy
Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 3 Period II. |
The Novena Rosary
Mysteries
for July 27th are the Luminous. |
The Blue Book reading will be
at 4:37 on Sunday
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Schedule for July 27, 2003
4:00 a.m.
- Mass
4:37 a.m.
- Morning Offering and
prayers
4:49 a.m.
- Newsletter 1999 Issue
3 (Personal Uniqueness)
6:16 a.m.
- Morning Offering
6:20 a.m.
- 6:20 prayers led by Father Carter
Holy Spirit Novena
Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
Rosary
7:24 a.m.
- Children praying the
Shepherds of Christ prayers
7:42 a.m.
- Mary's Message
and
talk given by Father Carter from February 13, 1997
8:22 a.m.
- Live Rosary February
13, 1997
9:45 a.m. - Nursing
Home #15
10:23
a.m. - Children's Glorious Rosary
July 15, 1995
11:16 a.m. - Morning Offering
& Prayer for Union
11:21 a.m.
- Choose Life
12:23 p.m.
- Children's Joyful Rosary
December 25, 1994
12:57 p.m.
- Response to God's Love chapter 2
1:40 p.m.
- Children praying the Shepherds of Christ prayers
1:58 p.m.
- Songs
2:19 p.m.
- Nursing Home #4
3:00 p.m.
- Mary's Message
3:07 p.m.
- Songs
3:51 p.m.
- Morning Offering & Prayer for Union with Jesus
3:56 p.m.
- Song from Jesus
3:58 p.m.
- Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
4:00
p.m. - Mass
4:37 p.m.
- God's Blue Book
reading
6:20
p.m. - 6:20 prayers led by Father Carter
Holy Spirit Novena
Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
7:24 p.m.
- Children's Sorrowful Rosary
November 2, 1996
8:23 p.m.
- Rosary of Light from
July 10, 2003 #2
8:54 p.m.
- Blue Book reading from
July 12, 2003
10:19 p.m.
- Morning Offering & Prayer for Union with Jesus
10:24 p.m.
- About Shepherds of
Christ - talk given June 29, 2003
11:44 p.m.
- Handbook read by
Father Carter
1:18 a.m.
- Songs
1:37 a.m.
- Tell My People read by
Father Carter
3:08 a.m.
- Rosary of Light from November 14, 2002
3:41 a.m.
- Morning Offering & Prayer for Union with Jesus
3:46 a.m.
- Mary's Message
3:52 a.m.
- Songs
4:00 a.m.
- Mass
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July 26, 2003
Messenger: My
dear people,
As we approach the feast of St. Ignatius
we ponder deeply The Spiritual Exercises
of St. Ignatius. I feel we live a mini-
retreat every day, striving with all our
heart to know God's will for us and
letting go of attachments. We thereby
live out the fruits of our formal
retreat.
We are always aware of our weaknesses
and see how satan uses inordinate attachments
to try to really hurt our spiritual life.
I want that place with Christ, that
union always in all I do. I strive to
live in the moment, to want all things
according to His will, not wanting more or
less than God wants us to have.
Living out our vocation in a particular
way of life helps us to attain our eternal
reward. If God has chosen a particular
vocation, a way He wish us to live our
life, religious, married, single,
lay person, whatever it is for us, why
would I not give myself fully to living
out that way of life. To be on the fence
when we believe God has chosen a way
of life we think we are to follow is
to invite lack of peace continually —
It is like saying: "Oh God I give to you,
but Oh God not this, I want to serve God,
but I want my own will too — Oh God, not that,
you can have these little pieces, I will
wear the cloth and take the name of a
religious, but God as far as my heart —
it's mine to keep — I want the recognition,
God, but really not the heart felt
commitment."
When one is called to the religious life,
it is a very special honor, to be wed to
Christ as a religious in a special way,
why hold onto the world when God is
saying He wants you to serve this
way. That is not to say to give up private
time for prayer. This is always paramount.
The connection with God comes in that
period of time when one spends
private time alone with the Master.
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:
19. Our Lady of Fatima's Peace Plan from Heaven
(Rockford: TAN
Books and Publishers, Inc., 1983). pp.9-10.
July 26, 2003 message continues
Messenger: The
will of the individual is always
involved. Some give themselves
physically, being in a religious
order, having the name, living
the life, wearing the attire, but
inside they really have their own
agenda.
Some may commit themselves so half-
heartedly their whole commitment
is always preparation for another
time, almost like going to school
to learn a trade.
Life is going on now — whether someone
is in school or someone feels they
are living in a vocation that they will
have for all their life.
Preparation for another thing still must be
seen as life going on presently.
Habitual living for another time
is to miss the precious moments of
today.
A car accident, a cancer may come
and rob the years we thought
we were living for and then we
lived our whole life not being
in the present moment, actually
not living life at all, being
somewhere else in our mind and
heart while life was going on.
The Ignatian Retreat for me and
the writings Jesus has given to me are
in preparation for how to live now.
Now I must live with myself and I
am always aware of my past, my
weaknesses, my strengths, why I
live — always with the goal to live
according to God's will, not to want
more or less of a thing — wanting
exactly what He wants for me.
My life is lived to serve the
Divine Master for His honor and
glory.
Mary is the disciple of Christ we must
follow.
I LOVE THIS CONSECRATION TO
MARY JESUS GAVE TO FR. CARTER
Act of consecration to
the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
"Dear Blessed Virgin Mary, I consecrate myself to
your maternal and Immaculate Heart, this Heart which is symbol of your life
of love. You are the Mother of my Savior. You are also my Mother. You love
me with a most special love as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates,
a movement created by your Son as a powerful instrument for the renewal of
the Church and the world. In a return of love, I give myself entirely to
your motherly love and protection. You followed Jesus perfectly. You are His
first and perfect disciple. Teach me to imitate you in the putting on of
Christ. Be my motherly intercessor so that, through your Immaculate Heart, I
may be guided to an ever closer union with the pierced Heart of Jesus, Chief
Shepherd of the flock."
July 26, 2003 message continues
Messenger: Mary
and Jesus are our model.
In the prayer it says
YOU FOLLOWED JESUS PERFECTLY.
YOU ARE HIS FIRST AND PERFECT
DISCIPLE.
TEACH ME TO IMITATE YOU IN
THE PUTTING ON OF CHRIST.
Luke 1: 46-55
The Magnificat
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.
Act of consecration to
the Sacred Heart of Jesus
"Lord Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock, I
consecrate myself to Your most Sacred Heart. From Your pierced Heart the
Church was born, the Church You have called me, as a member of Shepherds
of Christ Associates, to serve in a most special way. You reveal
Your Heart as a symbol of Your love in all its aspects, including Your most
special love for me, whom You have chosen as Your companion in this most
important work. Help me to always love You in return. Help me to give myself
entirely to You. Help me always to pour out my life in love of God and
neighbor! Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in You!
Excerpt from Mother
at Our Side
by Edward J.
Carter S.J.
seven
Being Led By Jesus And Mary
One
of the most difficult tasks in the spiritual life is to engage in the
process of letting go. There is something in us which wants to remain in
control. We must remember, however, that growth in the spiritual life means
increased abandonment to God in Christ.
God
has given us Mary as our spiritual mother to help us grow in abandonment. As
we more and more entrust ourselves to the Immaculate Heart, Mary
increasingly aids in leading us to closer union with the Heart of
Christ—to an increased abandonment to Christ.
We
have to have goals in the spiritual life. We have to schedule our spiritual
exercises. We have to make plans for our ministry—for our services to
others in the Lord. We must plan to try to make the best use of our time.
But
we must do these things with the overall attitude of allowing Christ and
Mary to guide us in the Spirit. We make plans with the understanding that
Christian prudence asks this of us. We do not map things out in order to be
in control in a way which goes against entrusting ourselves to Christ and
Mary. When it becomes clear that Christ and our Mother want us to make
changes in what we have planned, we must ask for the grace to be spiritually
free—to once again abandon ourselves to Jesus and Mary and allow Them to
lead us anew in the Holy Spirit.
Our
consecration to Christ and Mary means that we always strive to entrust
ourselves totally to Them. And as we grow in this spirit of entrustment, we
grow in the realization of what it means to be led by Jesus and Mary in the
Spirit. We also grow in the desire to be so led.
end of excerpt from Mother at Our Side
July 26, 2003 message continues
Messenger: In
the book of Fr. Carter's on the Spiritual Exercises
Francis Xavier McMenamy S.J. writes:
EIGHT-DAY RETREAT
Based on The Spiritual Exercise of St. Ignatius
by Francis Xavier McMenamy S.J.
edited by William J. Grace, S.J.
18. The Three Classes of Men
St. Ignatius assumes that the
spiritual life, in as far as we live it, consists in finding God in all things,
that is, in recognizing the holy will of God and in embracing the known will of
God. Advancement in the supernatural life means therefore a fuller and more
complete finding of God in the details of one's life. Now the Exercises
are designed and so constructed as to assist one in finding God either in his
vocation in life or in some detail of his life.
The Saint further assumes
that what hinders the soul from finding God is some ill-regulated attachment—a "pondus," as he calls it, or dead weight
— which holds back the soul from embracing God's will, or even recognizing it.
Hence what the Exercises aim at primarily is to remove this "pondus"
or attachment. For if this impediment is put out of the way the sincere soul
will surely find God; that is, it will recognize and embrace the will of God
for the right ordering of its life. This purpose of the retreat is made
clear from the very beginning. For just prior to the statement of the First
Principle and Foundation we find the heading, "Spiritual Exercises to
conquer oneself and regulate one's life, and to avoid coming to a
determination through any inordinate affection."
All
the exercises of the retreat which we have followed up to the present are
directed toward the removal of attachments. To this end we have searched for
incentives based on reason, on fear, and on love. Love of Christ, which is
the more excellent way for a Christian, is also the normal way provided by
Providence for overcoming disordered attachments to creatures and finding
God in peace. Hence, after the few exercises which are given in the First
Week, the Ignatian retreat consists for the most part in contemplation of
Christ. This contemplation has as its purpose to engender in the heart of
the exercitant an ardent personal love of our Lord. We seek that quality of
love which insures courage and complete sincerity in setting aside
impediments or attachments by the time when the election or choice is
reached.
The meditation on The
Kingdom of Christ enkindled love in our souls, and thereupon we made a
generous offering of ourselves for the service of the King. Subsequent
consideration of the mysteries of Christ's child-life has deepened our love
and the generosity of our offering. In The Two Standards our Lord made plain
what is His way of a perfect life for a son of God on earth. It is
the way of the Holy Cross, of poverty, and of humiliation. Our response to
the Master's plea was a deliberate and intensive petition that He might
deign to take us with Him in His way of poverty and humiliation.
End of excerpt from Eight-Day Retreat
July 26, 2003 message continues
Messenger: WHAT
IS OUR DESIRE?
DO WE REALLY MEAN WHAT WE SAY?
WE WANT TO BE SINCERE
IN OUR ACTIONS.
Sing: Take Lord Receive
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.
p. 25
46. 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.
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
July 26, 2003 message continues
Messenger: We
want to do all things to please His
Divine Majesty, the way He wants.
As I spoke before the religious who
wears the garb, but in their
heart holds onto their own will
and their own program may
in effect, hurt the institution.
They say I am a Jesuit, a Franciscan,
a handmaid, a servant and yet
they carry that name, Jesuit
etc, priest etc and then they do
what they want.
This is what happened with the sex scandal
in the Church — they wore the title,
they wore the clothes and secretly
some may have used their title
to get favors which were sinful.
Then the Church has to pick up the
pieces for the individuals actions.
The leaders are to some extent held
accountable for those under
them, but can we really see what goes
on in the darkness when satan tempts
a soul and they give in and are
disloyal to the institution.
We cannot follow them around. The devil
is cunning, secretive, the master of
lies and deception. The devil tempts
those underneath to be disloyal, to
berate those in authority, to hurt
the institution, while wearing
the holy cloth of the religious
some did very bad actions.
I could not control my two year old children.
It is more difficult to control adults
giving into satan's lures, living
lives of lies, wanting to raise
above those in authority by doing
some sordid unloyal deed.
The three classes of men
HOW PURE IS THE DESIRE
OF THE HEART?
ANYONE COULD GIVE INTO
WILLFULNESS ———
IT TAKES NO EFFORT
JUST DO YOUR OWN WILL
AGAINST WHAT YOU KNOW
GOD WANTS.
THE DISCIPLINE IS IN
FOLLOWING THE RULE —
STRIVING TO DO GOD'S WILL
EVEN WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT —
HOW SINCERE IS THE HEART TO
SERVE —
THE WORLD PREACHES —
and they show a beautiful, young,
tanned person, smiling, water
splashing on their face, against
a blue sky with leaves and
flowers somewhere by the side
of the picture —a beautiful
person, good looking body
the world shows the person in
charge doing their own thing —
sex outside of marriage —
scanty clothes —
cars —
mansions —
marriages and vacationing on the Rivera
LIGHT in the sky —
darkness under the bed sheets —
Being in control of yourself —
means surrendering our lives to
God —
that gets the rewards hereafter —
the heavenly rewards —
here a beautiful sexy lady
against a blue sky may
get an affair outside of
marriage —
that is not good for our soul
and our eternal life —
Whatever the attachment that keeps us
stuck that is what we have to
let go of —
It can be alcohol, willfulness,
food, work, whatever we
use to numb ourselves when
we are hurting if we use it
to excess and that thing can drive
us away from God.
The person wanting to be united to
God must have Him as their
goal — He is the "candy" of
our thoughts, He is the one
we live for — to honor and
serve Him.
What is the desire of the heart —
is it a pure desire to serve God?
is it to make ourselves more popular
with men?
is it to finally get the affection
of men so we are recognized
as okay, a leader, popular,
talented, thin, good looking,
rich —
God calls men to be priests to serve the
people — are our allurement
making ourselves above others,
making ourselves look good
etc.
Many men don't want women
above them. This has been
drilled into many men's minds so
the thought of abandoning oneself
to Our Lady becomes hard for
many men —
Yet Christ, the Almighty God came
in the womb of the Virgin
Mary and was born a baby
in her arms.
God was dependent on a human
creature, Mary the spotless
virgin, for His food and
changing — His care as an infant —
God — Jesus Christ, grew up a
little baby in Mary's arms —
Hear the words of Jesus under the cross —
and hear the words as Fr. Carter speaks
in the front of his book in the Preface
Mother at Our Side
Excerpt from Mother at Our Side,
by Father Edward J. Carter, S.J.
Preface
It was the hour of Jesus'
agony. He hung on a cross, on a hill called Calvary. He had already suffered
excruciating pain. He had been brutally scourged—can we comprehend what
this did to Jesus? He had been crowned with thorns. He had carried the heavy
cross and then was mercilessly nailed to it. After all this, the
excruciating suffering continued as the weight of His body pulled downward
against the nail-inflicted wounds of His hands and feet. Besides the intense
physical suffering, there was the spiritual anguish which pierced Jesus'
Heart.
Amidst this unfathomable
suffering, Jesus spoke to Mary and John as they stood at the foot of the
cross: Woman, behold, your son. Then He said to the disciple, Behold,
your mother. (Jn. 19: 26-7).
John represented all of us.
In giving Mary to him as spiritual mother, Jesus was also giving Mary to all
of us as our spiritual mother.
In these our times, the
spiritual motherhood of Mary is being manifested in an extraordinary
fashion. There have been alleged apparitions of Mary in many parts of the
world. Many seem to bear the marks of authenticity. A small number of these
apparition sites have already received official Church approval. Regarding
the others, we await the Church's final judgment and express our willingness
to submit to her ultimate decision.
Why such an extraordinary
proliferation of Marian apparitions and messages? Because we live in
extraordinary times. Mary is telling us that the Church and the world are
experiencing a time of great crisis brought about by an unprecedented wave
of sin which has been sweeping across the face of the earth.
Through Mary, God is using
extraordinary means to call us to conversion. Mary tells us that her
Immaculate Heart is leading the Church and the world along the way of
conversion as she leads us in an extraordinary fashion to Jesus, the Light
of the world. She is beseeching us in a special way to give our assistance
to help fulfill the mission God has entrusted to her.
In writing this book on
Mary's role in the Christian life, I have drawn upon the teaching of
Scripture and upon Church documents. I have used messages Mary has given at
apparition sites, as well as the locutions or messages allegedly given to
certain of her chosen ones over and above those associated with her
apparitions. I have also used the thoughts of other theologians. Minor
portions of this book have been drawn from some of my previously published
books.
Using all of the above
sources—and others not listed—I have tried to delineate Mary's role as
spiritual Mother to us. In doing so, I have also tried to give an overview
of the spiritual life. My prayerful hope is that the book will help the
reader grow in appreciation of Mary's motherhood regarding us. Indeed, we go
to the Father through Christ in the Holy Spirit, with Mary as Mother at our
side.
Edward Carter, S.J.
Xavier University
end of Excerpt from Mother at Our Side
July 26, 2003 message continues
Messenger:
"MARY SERVED JESUS
PERFECTLY"
words from the Consecration Prayer
to Mary as given to Fr. Carter
from Jesus
In the words of Fr. Carter we see some of Mary's
role in our lives.
Excerpt from Mother at Our Side,
by Father Edward J. Carter, S.J.
two
Mother At Our Side
Standing by the cross of
Jesus were His mother and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and
Mary of Magdala. When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple there whom He
loved, He said to His mother, "Woman, behold, your son." Then He
said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother." (Jn. 19:25-27).
"In an utterly singular
way she cooperated by her obedience, faith, hope, and burning charity in the
Savior's work of restoring supernatural life to souls. For this reason she is
a mother to us in the order of grace." (Vatican II).2
Mary is the Mother of Jesus. She is also our Mother. The above
words of Scripture and of the Second Vatican Council attest to this.
Jesus has given us Mary as our
spiritual mother. As He hung upon the cross, Jesus told John to look upon Mary
as his mother, this John who represents all of us. In His moment of deepest
anguish and suffering, Jesus was thinking of us. As the indescribable physical
pain racked His body from head to toe, as the unfathomable spiritual anguish
penetrated to the depths of His Heart, Jesus was thinking of us. If we allow
this scene to penetrate into our hearts, if we take the time to contemplate
the depth of Jesus' and Mary's love for us as Their Hearts were pierced with
grief, we are truly overwhelmed with the magnificent greatness and tenderness
of the scene. Jesus was proclaiming Mary to be Mother of the Redemption. He
was telling us that Mary is Mother to all peoples.
The fact that Mary is our
mother, the fact that she has such a powerful role to play in our salvation in
no way detracts from the mediatorship of Christ. Vatican II states:
"We have but one
Mediator, as we know from the words of the Apostle: "For there is one
God, and one Mediator between God and men, himself man, Christ Jesus, who
gave himself as ransom for all." (1 Tim. 2:5-6). The maternal
duty of Mary toward men in no way obscures or diminishes this unique
mediation of Christ, but rather shows its power. For all the saving
influences of the Blessed Virgin on men originate, not from some inner
necessity, but from the divine pleasure. They flow forth from the
superabundance of the merits of Christ, rest on His mediation, depend
entirely on it, and draw all their power from it. In no way do they impede
the immediate union of the faithful with Christ. Rather they foster this
union."3
In saying that Mary is our
spiritual mother, we are saying that Mary is the mother of our Christ-life.
What is this life? Can we define it?
At Baptism the Persons of the
Trinity communicate so intimately to us that, as a result, they leave their
imprint or image upon us. This Trinitarian image is our life of sanctifying
grace. This life of grace is a created participation in God's life, and since
this gift of grace is mediated by Christ in His humanity, this Trinitarian
image also has a Christic aspect. Christ as man has shown us how to live a
God-like existence. He has shown us how to live the life of grace. This life
of grace we possess allows us to enjoy the special presence of Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit. Truly, the divine Persons dwell within us.
Whether we refer to this life
as the Christ-life, the life of grace, life in the Holy Spirit, or by other
names, we are referring to one and the same reality. This reality, again, is
the Christic, Trinitarian image given us through the Trinitarian
communication.
St. Paul speaks of our life of grace in terms of our being
baptized into the death and resurrection of Jesus (Rom. 6:1-11). Again,
Jesus mediates our life of grace. He has shown us how to live a Christ-like
existence. Since Jesus' paschal mystery of death-resurrection sums up His own
human existence, so it sums up our own. This is what St. Paul is telling us.
Paul tells us that we live our life of Baptism, our life of grace, by
continually dying and rising with Jesus—rising to a greater share in
Christ's resurrection. Indeed, we live resurrection now and hereafter. Living
death-resurrection involves all of our Christian activities. While not giving
an all-inclusive list, we do include the following: the reading of Scripture,
prayer, the performance of daily duties, the doing of penance, making
sacrifices, our jobs, periods of rest and relaxation, sharing meals with loved
ones, reception of the sacraments, and, especially, participation in the
Eucharist which is both sacrifice and sacrament.
This is our glorious existence
made possible by God's great love for us and a major truth of this glorious
existence is the fact that Jesus has given us Mary as our spiritual mother.
Mary is the Mother of our Christ-life. In her loving, maternal role, she
cooperates with the Holy Spirit in forming Christ in us. Pope John Paul II
tells us:
"The Church knows and
teaches that all the saving influences of the Blessed Virgin on mankind
originate from the divine pleasure. . .This saving influence is sustained by
the Holy Spirit, Who, just as He overshadowed the Virgin Mary when He began
in her the divine motherhood, in a similar way constantly sustains her
solicitude for the brothers and sisters of her Son.''4
Mary our mother is ever with
us, guiding us, teaching us, caring for us, protecting us, loving us. With her
maternal assistance we go to the Father through and with Christ in the Holy
Spirit.
Mary nourishes our growth in
Christ with a very tender and specialized love for each of us. She regards
each of us as a precious, unique individual. John Paul II again speaks to us:
"Of the essence of
motherhood is the fact that it concerns the person. Motherhood always
establishes a unique and unrepeatable relationship between two people:
between mother and child and between child and mother. Even when the same
woman is the mother of many children, her personal relationship with each
one of them is of the very essence of motherhood. For each child is
generated in a unique and unrepeatable way, and this is true both for the
mother and for the child."4
The Holy Father then applies
these ideas to Mary and us:
"It can be said that
motherhood in the order of grace preserves the analogy with what in the
order of nature characterizes the union between mother and child. In the
light of this fact it becomes easier to understand why in Christ's testament
on Golgotha, His Mother's new motherhood is expressed in the singular, in
reference to one man. Behold, your son."5
This is the awesome and
consoling truth—you and I are very precious to Mary. She loves us much more
than we can ever fathom. It is our great privilege and responsibility to love
her in return. She asks for this love, she asks for our trust. As we give our
love and trust to our mother, she wants us to come to her at all times and in
all circumstances.
Are we sorrowful, anxious,
troubled? Let us go to Mary our mother and ask her to console us. Let us ask
her for the grace to handle our sorrow, our anxieties, our troubles
properly—according to God's will. In this way our suffering will bring us
closer to Christ as it simultaneously allows us to contribute to the ongoing
Christianization of the world.
Are we joyful, happy, basking
in the glow of a goal successfully accomplished? Let us go to Mary and ask her
to help us handle our joy, our happiness, our success as God intends. Let us
petition her not to allow our joy to make us forgetful of God, our God Who is
the source of all true joy, success, and happiness.
Are we finding it particularly
difficult to follow Christ in the here-and-now? In child-like trust we can
approach our mother. Let us ask her for the grace to realize that the
following of Christ is not always easy—that at times being a follower of
Christ challenges our courage in a special way. We can also ask Mary to help
us realize that even at such difficult times, Christ's grace makes our burden
relatively light. Jesus has told us:
Come to me, all you who
labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and
humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy,
and my burden light. (Mt.11:28-30).
Are we finding it is
particularly easy to follow Christ in the here-and-now? Let us go to Mary and
ask her for the grace to remain humble. Let us beseech Mary to keep us from
being inflated with pride, and ask her to help us realize that without Jesus
we can do nothing.
Mary, then, asks for our
complete trust. She wants us always to seek shelter under her maternal mantle.
She invites us to come to her in all circumstances—whether it be in joy or
sorrow, success or failure, laughter or tears. Mary wants us to share in her
maternal wisdom so that we may understand how to use our various experiences
to come closer to God in Christ. Sharing our lives with Mary in this fashion,
and on a consistent basis, requires that we love her, that we trust her, that
we surrender ourselves to her maternal love.
Help us, Mother Mary, to probe
ever more deeply into the depths of your love for us. Help us to realize more
and more that to be loved by you is to experience a sweetness, a warmth, a
tenderness, a serenity, a security, which makes us cry out, "O Mother,
how good and loving you are!"
Notes
-
The Documents of Vatican II (New
York: The America Press, 1966), Dogmatic Constitution on the Church,
No. 61.
-
Ibid., No. 62.
-
Ibid., No. 60.
-
Pope John Paul II, The Mother of the
Redeemer (Redemptoris Mater) (Washington: United States
Catholic Conference, 1987), No. 38.
-
Ibid., No. 45.
July 26, 2003 message continues
Messenger: IN
SUMMARY THUS FAR
So what does this mean for us?
We live to do God's will.
We live to honor and serve God
for His glory.
We want to let go of ill-regulated attachments.
(In the trials do we go to Christ or some
attachment alcohol, sex, food, etc)
Is serving God our end?
Is our goal loving God more deeply?
Are we surrendering our life to God?
Are we dependent on Him for help?
What about the quality of love?
Are we living to serve the King?
Are we living by the Standard of Christ?
His standard is the way a perfect
son would serve God on this earth.
There is the man who puts off being about his
work for gaining his eternal reward. He
forever procrastinates. He is attached to
many things. He may sin and stay
attached to things that hurt his spiritual life.
He may be attached to money, honor, his
reputation, position at work, in religious
life, etc.
He may be attached to perfection or other-things
like this that act not as a good thing, but
actually block his spiritual growth —
order etc.
The second class may seek God but do not commit
whole heartedly, they straddle the fence,
they are physically there, they take the
name, they go through the motions, but
in religious life they are disloyal,
complain about superiors, participate
with a frown half-heartedly, cause problems
actually blocking work because of
feelings of victimization, anger, hurt feelings —
things they make up that aren't true to
carry out destructive relationship patterns
from their own past life.
They may be cooperative sometimes and very
uncooperative seeking recognition for work
and doing it to get recognized, loved, patted
on the back, not doing work for the service
of God and promoting His Kingdom, but
for a selfish motive of greater recognition
for themselves here below.
They scoff at obedience, sometimes act
like a mule when asked to perform a simple
task and may act like little children wanting
to be stroked.
They spend a lot of time thinking about
how people have treated them rather than
doing much work.
Jesus speaks: The
Virgin Mary building and the Movement
exists to help bring about the Reign of My
Sacred Heart and triumph of My Mother's Heart.
Volunteers are needed to come and work for this
purpose. No one should use My movement as a
dumping ground for airing their sordid bad feelings
I want you to serve Me and see the honor it is
I have called you.
MY MOTHER APPEARS HERE
TO REACH THE WORLD
WITH THESE WRITINGS.
The same people come day after day and
complain, right under Mary's image
and in the building.
My building is for this purpose to
— tell the world about My writings and
messages
— to teach people to pray
— to tell them about this way of life
Shepherds of Christ.
You can see the same people that come in from the
world and complain all the time — year after
year —
you can see the same people with their
own agenda
The Third Class of Men
My Apostles live to serve Me.
My Apostles live to promote My Kingdom.
Satan sends a negative one to make you
feel down.
My Apostles focus on their mission.
My Apostles gaze on Mary's image and
are honored at the calling.
My Apostles realize that those who come
have come a long way to receive
a positive message.
My Apostles realize I have given the
image to give the people a story
of hope, of love.
The devil keeps people focused on themselves
to block My work.
I give the Shepherds of Christ Movement My building
of the Two Hearts to spread a
positive message of love and hope —
to spread the messages I give here.
Excerpts from Mother at Our Side,
by Father Edward J. Carter, S.J.
nine
The Cross Leads to Life
Renunciation is another form of
dying with Jesus, which, over the years, has been given much attention in the
teaching of the spiritual masters. Indeed, the New Testament itself attests to
the undeniable role that renunciation plays in the Christian life. The gentle
St. Luke, for example, teaches Jesus' message of renunciation—a message
which Jesus Himself lived. Renunciation was obviously not the only aspect of
Christ's life, but it was an undeniable one. Christians, because they are
followers of Christ, must also include renunciation in their lives regardless
of their individual vocations. Again, it is well to remind ourselves that we
embrace renunciation for the sake of life. This was the purpose of
renunciation in Jesus' life, and it must have the same purpose in ours.
Acts of renunciation are
life-promoting regarding ourselves and others. Let us always remember what Our
Lady of Fatima has said: Pray, pray, a great deal, and make sacrifices for
sinners, for many souls go to Hell because they have no one to make sacrifices
and pray for them.24
And the angel said to the Fatima visionaries: Make everything you do a
sacrifice, and offer it as an act of reparation for the sins by which God is
offended, and as a petition for the conversion of sinners.25
All our good actions, including the enjoyable and pleasant ones, can be
offered as sacrifices. In the stricter sense, our sacrifices include those
actions which involve doing that which is difficult or which involves acts of
renunciation.
nine
The Cross Leads to Life
. . .and Simeon blessed
them and said to Mary his mother, "Behold, this child is destined for
the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be
contradicted (and you yourself a sword will pierce) so that the thoughts of
many hearts may be revealed." (Lk. 2:35).
Our incorporation into the
mystery of Christ at baptism, and our growth in this life, is centered in
the pattern of death-resurrection: Or are you unaware that we who were
baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were indeed
buried with him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was
raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live in
newness of life. (Rom. 6:3-4).
The theme of
death-resurrection is at the heart of salvation history. It is a recurrent
theme in the Old Testament and in the New Testament.
The Jewish people, under the
leadership of Moses, experienced death-resurrection as they were formed into
the people of the covenant—Yahweh's people. In the great Exodus event,
they escaped Egyptian slavery, went on to Mt. Sinai where the covenant was
ratified, and then progressed to the Promised Land. As members of the Mosaic
covenant, the Jews experienced a religious transition; they passed over to a
higher level of religious existence—to a more intimate union with God.
This religious transition
contained death-resurrection. For the Jews to become people of the covenant,
to remain so, and to grow in the life of the covenant, it was necessary that
they undergo a mystical or spiritual death. In short, they had to be willing
to pay a price. They had to be willing to bear with that which was difficult
in covenant life. This mystical death, however, had a very positive purpose;
it was directed at life in the covenant and at growth in that life. This
spiritual death, in other words, was for the purpose of resurrection.
Christ perfectly fulfilled
the Old Testament theme of death-resurrection. In doing so, He was
experiencing a religious transition. He was passing over—gradually, at
first, and then definitively in His death—to a new kind of existence, to
the life of resurrection. He achieved this life not only for Himself, but
for us also. To achieve this new life of resurrection, Jesus was willing to
pay the price. He was willing to suffer, even unto death. That it had to be
this way—that the only way Jesus could have achieved resurrection was
through suffering and death—was pointed out by Jesus Himself to the two
disciples on the road to Emmaus: And he said to them, "Oh, how
foolish you are! How slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke!
Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer these things and enter
into his glory?" (Lk. 24:25-26).
Christ has structured the
Christian life by the way He lived, died, and rose from the dead. It is
obvious, then, that the pattern of death-resurrection must be at the heart
of the Church's life. Mary, as Mother of the Church and our mother, is in a
most advantageous position to show us our own individual roads to Calvary
and support us as we carry the cross, each of us on our own as well as the
Church as a whole. She already traveled that road in perfect acceptance of
the death-resurrection struggle as she was always most closely united with
the work of her Son. Individually and collectively, we are meant to
continually die in Christ so that we may continually rise in Christ. We thus
pass over in a process of continued religious transition to a greater
participation in Jesus' resurrection. It is true that our participation in
Christ's resurrection will reach its culmination only in eternity.
Nevertheless, we begin the life of resurrection here upon this earth, in the
here-and-now of human life, in the midst of joy and pain, in the experience
of success and failure, in the sweat of our brow, in the enjoyment of God's
gifts.
We cannot maintain the life
of resurrection or grow in it without a willingness to suffer. This does not
mean that we need to feel overwhelmed and heavily burdened by the suffering
in our lives. The greater portion of suffering for most of us seems to be an
accumulation of ordinary hardships and pains. At times, more penetrating
suffering—even suffering of agonizing proportions—can enter our life.
Whether the sufferings are either of the more ordinary variety or the rare
and extreme type, Christians must convince themselves that to properly
relate to the cross is to grow in resurrection.
The great tragedy regarding
human suffering is not that there is so much of it, but that apparently so
much of it is wasted. Apparently many do not relate to suffering
properly—according to God's will. Consequently, they fail to use suffering
as a means to growth. Again, our mother's fiat can be a vivid reminder to
persevere through even our most difficult trials.
As the opening Scripture
passage tells us, Our Lady was no stranger to suffering. As we well know,
her life of suffering culminated in her extreme agony beneath the cross. Who
can fathom the depth of her grief as she watched her innocent Son suffer the
excruciating pain and death of crucifixion? In the church of San Domingo in
Puebla, Mexico, there is one of the most striking representations of Mary
that I have ever seen. Near the front of the church, and to the right as one
faces the altar, there is a figure of our Blessed Mother seated in a chair.
She is dressed in a black robe with gold trim. Atop her white veil is a
black lace veil of mourning. On her lap is Christ's crown of thorns. Mary
gazes down at this crown which had been so cruelly and derisively placed
upon Jesus. The expression on Mary's face is one of the most moving I have
seen. It is a combination of grief, dignity, and beauty. It is indeed easy
to shed tears as one beholds this figure of Mary. It tells us so much about
Mary. It tells us that she not only is the Mother of Joy, but also the
Mother of Sorrows.
Yes, our dearest Mother Mary
knows what it is like to suffer. She knows so well the purpose of suffering
in God's plan. By asking her to obtain for us the grace to grow in wisdom,
we can increasingly understand the role of suffering in our own lives.
Asking her for the grace not to waste suffering, we can learn to use it as a
means of growth for ourselves and others.
One of the most traditional
forms of the experience of the cross which spiritual masters have always
discussed is self-discipline or asceticism. People in all walks of life
require self-discipline. The athlete must subject himself or herself to
rigorous training; the musician must endure long hours of practice; the
doctor must be willing to order his or her life to the vigorous demands of
the medical profession.
The Christian life, too, has
its own form of discipline, and it is necessary for the greater assimilation
of our total being to Christ. Christian self-discipline, or asceticism,
helps us grow in the Christ-life. It extends to all aspects of the
person—intellect, will, imagination, memory, sight, hearing, taste, touch,
and so forth.
ten
Mother Of Our Christian Virtues
Humility
My soul proclaims the greatness of
the Lord;
my spirit rejoices in
God my savior.
For he has looked
upon his handmaid's
lowliness;
behold, from now on
will all ages
call me blessed.
The Mighty One has
done great things
for me,
and holy is his name.
(Lk. 1:46-50).
The above passage is a
portion of Mary's "Magnificat." One of its lessons is that of
humility. In her song of praise Mary expresses perfect humility. She
realized that without God she was nothing, but that, because of the divine
largess, God had made her great.
Humility is the realization
of the truth that I am a creature of God. Humility is also the
implementation of this truth in daily living. Humility is not a process of
self-depreciation, or of telling myself that I am no good, that I have very
little to contribute. Humility moves me to look at myself as I actually am.
It moves me to look at both my good and bad points, and, very importantly,
to follow up with appropriate attitudes and actions. (Regarding Mary's
humility, there was, of course, only the need to recognize her greatness as
coming forth from God, since she was completely sinless.)
Since humility is based on
truth, it never demands that I deny my particular gifts, my unique talents.
Certainly Mary did not do this. If I do not properly recognize my gifts, I
will not thank God properly, nor will I be in the most advantageous position
for the proper use and development of my talents. I should, then, recognize
the good in myself, while simultaneously realizing the source of all
good—God Himself.
Humility also enables me to
look realistically upon life in the human condition. Being humble means I
realize that precisely because I am human, I will experience pain. Precisely
because I am exposed to the human condition not only in its pleasant
aspects, but also in its dimension of sin, suffering, and anguish, I will
suffer—and sometimes because of the wrongdoings of others. Humility allows
me to accept this without bitterness, and allows me to react properly.
Humility also assists me in
realizing and implementing the truth that I am a social creature—one
intended by God to help my neighbor, and, in turn, one intended to be helped
by others. It also assists me in accepting my fundamental self. God has
created me with certain basic talents, with a certain fundamental
temperament. Humility bids me to accept this God-intended self, while always
striving to develop, improve, mature.
Humility likewise assists me
in accepting my present life situation in so far as I can determine this is
God's here-and-now design for me. If I am not properly humble, I can quietly
and subtly rebel regarding the present. How unlike Mary, who did not disdain
the simple and the ordinary, but rather, found her fulfillment in them as
she saw the here-and-now opportunities to say "yes" to God.
We can easily overlook the
various applications of humility, so we need to make the special effort to
become more aware of humility's role in Christian living. Scripture points
out the necessity of doing this:
God resists the proud,
but gives grace to the humble. (Jas.
4:6).
July 26, 2003 message continues
Messenger: The person that
wants to grow in the
spiritual life clings to trying
to serve God by doing His will,
without attachments that can drive
us away from God.
The person that wants to grow in the
spiritual life wants to
serve God with the right disposition,
the right attitude —
Oh how fair is the Mother of us all.
How pure her actions.
When she served God she did
so with such purity.
She humbly served Him.
She possessed the virtues needed to
serve Him.
The person who is of the right class
gives themselves to God, they act for the
right reasons, not for selfish attachments
for glory and honor for themselves —
they live to serve God —
they accept the difficult tasks with the
same love and fervor
as those that are much more
pleasurable.
Their purpose is to serve God —
not an ulterior motive of some
reward for themselves.
I serve you my God because I love
you, I do the difficult tasks
with the same love as those
that are more pleasurable.
I see that God has called me to sainthood and
in living this way, I will live more
deeply in His love for all eternity.
Jesus speaks: Who is the one who does it all for
themselves —
they serve at Church for their own
honor and glory —
they serve and complain holler,
act hateful, yet wear a habit —
one of My religious,
I despise the pretense of one that
ponders evil in their heart, yet
wears My cloth and makes a
mockery of My orders.
My religious have many children to
serve and by their example to
lead others to Me.
Pray for My religious.
Be Apostles of My Eucharistic Heart.
I am God —
How do you serve Me —
It hurts My Heart those who do My
special work for their own honor
and glory, stepping on others
to get ahead like the people in
the "rat-race" of the world.
They bring those worldly-selfish-ways
into My Church.
I want those who serve Me in religious
life to be holy, surrendering and loving.
You make a mockery of religious life —
I am love and yet you call yourself
a religious and act hateful.
What is the Standard of Christ?
Mary is your model.
Say this consecration
Act of consecration to
the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
"Dear Blessed Virgin Mary, I consecrate myself to
your maternal and Immaculate Heart, this Heart which is symbol of your life
of love. You are the Mother of my Savior. You are also my Mother. You love
me with a most special love as a member of Shepherds of Christ Associates,
a movement created by your Son as a powerful instrument for the renewal of
the Church and the world. In a return of love, I give myself entirely to
your motherly love and protection. You followed Jesus perfectly. You are His
first and perfect disciple. Teach me to imitate you in the putting on of
Christ. Be my motherly intercessor so that, through your Immaculate Heart, I
may be guided to an ever closer union with the pierced Heart of Jesus, Chief
Shepherd of the flock."
July 26, 2003 message continues
Jesus speaks: She wears white —
She is the spouse of the lamb —
She is holy
She is pure
Jesus speaks: Mary is the model for My servants and
handmaids.
Mary is the model for My religious.
Mary is the model for all priests.
Look at her gentleness.
Look at how she served Me.
She is Mother of the Church.
How can so many prideful men
ignore Mary and her role
in the Church and the spiritual
life.
Excerpt from Tell My People
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.
end of excerpt from Tell My People
July 26, 2003 message continues
Jesus speaks: I want My religious, My priests to be
given the second Blue Book.
Here is a message I gave January 17, 1994.
I Want My Priests to Come Back
January 17, 1994 3:40 a.m.
Jesus: You know I am He Who lifts you up. In
one second I can turn your feelings around and lift you up. Constantly pray
to Me. You need Me through these times. Remember, I truly died for you on
the cross. Remember, little one, I have chosen you to write to Me. Do you
think I will ever abandon you? I am a God who truly loves His people. I love
you with such ardent love. You must never doubt.
Look into My face and see My
gentleness. I am the kindest of all hearts. I am He who knows how to love
with such love. Become totally lost in My arms.
Do you think Satan will not taunt you?
Put him behind you. You are being guarded by God and His heavenly court.
Walk in My ways and the angels walk with you on your path. You are escorted
on your way and you are never alone. You are guarded as a precious treasure
that is being transported to another place.
You need to put all your cares in My
hands. You are developing true trust when you let go and let Me take over.
Keep trusting and silence the ugly prompting of Satan who wants you to worry
about useless things. Quit worrying and pray and play with your children. I
am telling you there is so much peace and grace gained by private prayer
with them. I will tend to all the details of your life. Do not worry for one
moment. Put your life in My hands. I am here, little one. Read this message
and all of them over and over again.
You need to go to the Blue Book for
your answers. Your answers are found there. I never leave your side. God is
guarding you. Just continue to have a union with Me all through the day. All
the prayer time alone with Me in one day is not enough. I want you in
constant prayer.
Turn to Me and My Blue Book. This will
help many priests to come back and sit before Me in private union with Me.
When priests come back to the tabernacle, the flock will begin to be led
back to His altar. Priests need to read these letters. They are the
preachers. If they do not value their own relationship with Jesus, if they
are being led away from Me with busyness, they will not preach the intimate
love of Jesus. They are so busy, but it is like throwing out the baby with
the bath water. I am the center and their relationship with Me is utmost.
The priests need these messages. They
need to have an intimate, close union with Me. They should be preaching
"time in front of the tabernacle." They should be preaching My
intense love for My people and how I have so much to give. Some sermons are
so complicated--yet nothing about union with Me in the Eucharist and in
front of the tabernacle.
I want My priests to come back and pray
before My tabernacle. I want them to read these messages and make Jesus the
Center of their lives. When they are led back to Jesus, they will lead the
flock home. Priests need adoration every day for at least an hour. I don't
care how busy they are. None of it matters if they are not spending time in
private prayer alone with Me. They need to come and get their supplies. They
need to quit thinking they are doing it and turn back to turning their lives
totally over to Me, to totally letting their burdens and busy lives off at
the foot of My cross and letting Me lead the way.
There is not one priest who has so much
to do that he cannot do private adoration daily. When the priest comes back
to the power in the Eucharist and the tabernacle, the congregation will turn
to God for their troubled hearts. Satan has led priests away from Jesus.
They are so busy they cannot do all their work, but this must all take
second place to praying silently before God and reading His words. These
letters will help many priests to come back and be intimate with Jesus.
All the rituals, all the upkeep of the
churches, all the little details, and the King of Glory sits alone! You have
thrown out the baby with the bath water. You are missing the boat.
I want the priests to read this
message. Where is the reverence after Communion and who has even heard it
mentioned in the church? Private union with Jesus! What an honor! I have all
you need. Come to Me and I will give you rest. I am all powerful. I have all
the power. I am hyper--vigilant over your lives. I guard you. Quit trying to
do it yourselves. Become selfless and let Me possess your souls.
Have the priests spread these messages.
Read them in church. I want adoration of the Eucharist back. I want people
to know I am God and I am coming to them in Holy Communion. I want the
Blessed Sacrament exposed. I want My churches open. Union with Jesus, the
love of Jesus, trust, faith, love for one another, love of God--I want all
of these preached from the pulpit!
I am the Alpha and the Omega. I want My
people to be led back to the center, which is Jesus. Pray for your priests.
They are under attack. If Satan can wreck the family, the priests, the
children, he has it made.
You are under attack, My beloved
priests, and you, in your busyness, are being led away from your union with
Jesus. Bring yourselves back to Me and let Me give you My love. I am indeed
the bridegroom of your souls. I wait for My beloved ones at the altar. I
long for private union with all My beloved ones.
Come to Me, all who labor and are
heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. Come and be lifted up to heights
you never dreamed possible. I am God. Put your lives in My hands. Let Me run
your life. Quit running amok. You have lost your way and are running down
the wrong road. Bring your lives back to Jesus in the tabernacle.
The world is getting farther from God
every minute. Read the messages at prayer meetings. Spread them by word of
mouth. The time you waste is valuable. These words are not meant to be
saved. Spread them here by any means possible. I want them out, I tell you!
If someone wants to read some messages, give them to them and let them read
them at prayer meetings. There is no secret here. They are from Me and I
want them out. I want you to speak. A lot of your discontent is in sitting
around with all these messages and not spreading them. Tell your friends to
speak. Speak My words here. You don't have to mention the source. Spread the
messages. You are not what is important. The messages are. You will be
exposed. Don't worry who knows, but don't spread your own story. Spread the
messages. Like ripples on a pond, the love of God will be spread throughout
the land. I have so much to give to My hurting ones. I am your God. I died
for you out of deepest love. I have come in these messages to lead you back
home.
Quit worrying of details. I am He Who
runs the show. Pray for guidance every day. Spend one hour in front of the
tabernacle. You cannot do in a million years what I can do in one moment.
Quit relying on yourselves. You are only pushing buttons. When you are fixed
in Me, the right door opens. When you go it alone, you have a hard road to
walk. One hour in private adoration. Be silent or read the Blue Book. Your
life will become uplifted by My teaching and you will sail a blue sky.
Spend time in silence and some in
reading My words in front of Me. I am talking to you in these letters. What
power, to read them in front of the tabernacle! You can't go it alone. You
need My help. You need your supplies. But you must come and get them! You
are following your tail around if you do it alone. I am He Who can do all
this. When you realize My power in adoration, your lives will change. As
long as you are too busy you will have a hard time. The soul craves this
union with Me.
Lead the priests back to adoration and
the people will follow. Our leaders have become too busy for adoration. This
is the key, the key to unlock the doors to the world's problems. It is found
in front of the tabernacle, at daily Mass and Communion. Do the priests ever
preach any of this? You have forgotten your center, Jesus, in the Eucharist!
All the power is found in Jesus. You have all that you need and you walk
about and decorate My churches and clean every speck of dust and repair My
pews and carpet My house and fix My organs but you walk about and miss the
King of Glory who sits there all alone! Spread the messages on the
tabernacle. I want them out!
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 in 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.
end of January 17, 1994 message
July 26, 2003 message continues
Jesus speaks: Here is a message I gave December 27,
1993.
The Bridegroom Awaits
December 27, 1993 - 4:00a.m.
Jesus speaks: Dear child, the Son of Man
waits and you sleep in the night. I wait for you and you sleep. You know I
am waiting and you are dead in your bed. Awake, My little one, when I call.
You must not give in to the desires of the body. I care for your needs. Your
strength comes from Me. Jump from your bed, sound the trumpet and arise, for
your Savior comes in the night to bring you a message for all His children.
Ready yourself, for I do not like to wait. Get up and come, child. I am God.
I am He Who made the world, He Who makes the sun shine and
the baby in the womb! You make Me wait while you sleep. Rise and run, for
the Lord is at hand. God awaits you and beckons you to be attentive to your
calling. Sound the trumpet! Arise in the night. I am He Who comes to you.
You must harken to the call. Come pronto to My request and do not tarry. I
wait and I wait and I eagerly want to talk to you.
I am Jesus, Son of the Living God. Oh, child, I want these
messages to reach the ends of this earth. I deliver each with such love.
Will you deliver My messages to all My loved ones? They eagerly need to hear
My words of love. They need to know how I feel about each one of them. They
need to know that I am God. I love each child uniquely and My love is the
love of God. What can you get on this earth that can compare to the love of
God? You have a message declaring My love for each of My children. They are
My love letters to them. Please see that they receive this letter. This is
your top priority. It is a love letter to My beloved ones.
I am your Savior. I am not a myth. I am alive and I come
to you. I wait in the tabernacle every day as a prisoner. Waiting and
waiting in the tabernacle and who comes to be with Me? I await you, My
children, to come and realize that God is in the tabernacle. I am Jesus, the
Son of God, and I wait for you every day. Come to Me in your busy day. Come
to Mass. Make ready your hearts and receive Me in Communion. I am there
awaiting you as a groom awaiting his bride. I want to be with you, united in
Holy Communion. I am truly present there, but which of you come? I wait for
each of you. I am God. I can love you each so intently you do not
understand. Your brother does not make up your love to Me. I wait, you
little ones. Will you come and receive your love this day?
Ready your hearts and keep them holy. God will enter
there. Prepare the way for Me. Do not sin. Do not lie to yourselves and tell
yourself that some sins are of no account. Every sin is wrong. I tell you
what is right and wrong in your hearts. You know the Ten Commandments. Satan
tells you "but in this case, you are exempt", "this is out of
date, you are allowed here." No, little ones, sin is sin and your heart
knows what is wrong! Keep it pure. The more you lie to yourself about evil,
the more right it becomes. Oh, how sad to numb your beautiful heart and
accept the things of this world that are evil as okay. Evil is evil and you
must guard against any evil the world tells you is okay.
I am the way, the truth and the life. When you abide in My
ways, you possess the light of life. Do not be pulled into the world and its
evil ways. Ready yourself for My love. I am as a bridegroom awaiting his
bride. So pure, so white, so untainted she appears, just for her loved one.
Her ways are gentle and kind and she is a picture of holiness, dressed in a
white gown. Dress your soul in a white gown for Me. Keep your soul clothed
in a cloth of dignity, a white cloth untainted by any sin, pure as the bride
who meets her groom. Our meeting is with such love.
You enter My church, you walk My aisle. Your bridegroom
awaits you in Communion. I am the bridegroom of your hearts. I come with
such love to enter your soul. I am He Who walks with you to be united in
Communion. I am Jesus. I am your true Love. I wait for you, My child. Please
clean yourself up for My arrival! Think of My coming the day before and
eagerly await our union. This is the greatest event of your life, union with
God. Anticipate it with such eagerness, as the wedding of our hearts. I
await you, little ones. I am God. What could this world ever give you that
can be likened to God's entering your soul?
I am God and I come to you in Communion. Do you wait for
Me, the bridegroom of your soul? Do you wait as one who is going to one's
own wedding? This event far surpasses any wedding. It is you who are missing
the significance here. I am here every Mass waiting, just for you. Get
dressed, purify yourself, see the priest, go to confession, guard your
tongue as the opening to your soul. I enter therein and you receive God, my
child. Do you not comprehend this a little?
Read My words here. They are as real as the eyes you use
to read them. It is you who blind yourself to all I have to give you. You do
not reach with the things of the soul. You look for explanations in bodily
things. To see the soul and the things of God you must reach with the eyes
of God. You must be opened by the faith I eagerly want to give you. Beg to
be open to Me so I can give you all you need to know Me. This world is
blurring your Godly vision. It is hard to see through the mask of evil it
has created. Every day the mask becomes more dense.
I am here, little one. You must die to this world to see
Me. You don't need more of the world. You need less of the world. As the
world decreases, your knowledge of Me increases. Take the mask off your
face. Make your hearts pure. Pray to the Holy Spirit for His gifts of
wisdom, understanding, counsel, fear of God-all gifts that only He can give!
Fill your hearts with the gifts of the Spirit. He will remove the blinders
from your eyes and dwell in your soul. You will know a new life and I will
become so much more alive to you. You, child, need the Spirit!
The way to God is through Jesus. You need the Spirit. You
need the Father. You need all three. Pray to be made whole in the Holy
Trinity. Pray for union with God. Pray for the things of the soul. When your
soul is in order, all else falls into order. You needn't pray for things of
the world. Pray to know Me more fully. Pray for unity with God. Pray for
opening in your hearts. Pray for holiness. Pray for faith, hope, charity.
Pray for knowledge of how to please God. These are the true treasures. All
else is of no account. Don't recite prayers for worldly things. Pray for
your union with God. This is what it is all about!
I am so eager to make Myself known to you. Our love affair
awaits and it depends on you. I am here loving you. It is you who keep us
apart. What could you find on this earth that could compare with a love
affair with God, child? Your soul was created to know love and serve Me. It
craves this union with Me. This appetite is stronger than any other you
possess. You hold it back and make light of it because this world has taken
God out. This world is messed up. I am God and you are a creature of God.
You cannot take God from you or you remain only a creature. What dignity you
sacrifice to remove God from yourself!
Prepare for the wedding of our souls. Your bridegroom
awaits you. I am Jesus, Son of the one, true, God. I await your union with
Me. Child, nothing you ever do on this earth can compare with Communion with
God. If you do not behold this as something, you need to pray to know Me
more. Go to the Spirit and beg Him for understanding and wisdom. Beg Him for
all his gifts to enhance your knowledge of God. Beg the Spirit for His
baptism. Let Him shower you with His life and you will become alive and on
fire in your heart.
Your bridegroom awaits you. Prepare yourself for the
wedding. Come, pure and white, and anticipate this union with eagerness. I
love you so, My child. You will never find a speck on this earth that can
compare with the love of God. Search, you feeble creature, for worldly
satisfaction and you will never satisfy one little part of your soul. Your
soul can only be satisfied by the love of God. It stalks your restless heart
and is only satisfied in God. It craves God like an appetite except that it
is much stronger. What is in your heart that is never satisfied by your
worldly way? It is the soul that craves union with God. It constantly keeps
you in a state of unrest, of searching, of seeking, of looking for more. The
more is found in the Eucharist. It is the answer to the empty heart. It is
the love you seek, but cannot find anywhere else. It is Jesus, child. It is
your Bridegroom. Come and be in Communion with Him. He awaits you and bids
you to come, pure in your heart, to the wedding-the wedding of your soul.
R. I felt as if there was so much I just did not
understand and I was overwhelmed by the mystery of God. I opened the Blue
Book to this:
Nov. 21, 1993:
Jesus speaks: Oh, what glories I have in store for
you when you finally see it all, see all there is to Me! Little glimpses I
will give you. These are special treats of My love, but you, in your earthly
form, cannot even handle it. My power, My light, My fire would blow you off
your feet and you would be out cold.
That is how I am at your side, with a power pack like
this, and you worry about a power failure? Oh, how silly, when I am with
you. Trust, trust. I am here.
end of December 27, 1994
July 26, 2003 message continues
Jesus speaks: Here is a message February 23, 1994
A City on a Hill Shines to the World
February 23, 1994 5:30 a.m.
Jesus: I am the light of the world. A city on
a hill will shine to the world. You at the Center will be this city when you
are filled to the brim with the love of Jesus. What power, what might, to
have each person a personal spouse of Jesus Christ! This is the light to the
darkened world. The love of Jesus radiates from the very being of those who
love Him. What light when all together are lifted by His love abounding deep
within their breasts!
I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. My life is the life
inside that cannot be contained. It is bursting and budding forth. My life
is the real life. To possess the life of Christ within your breast! Such
power! I am the city set on a hill that will stand united and shine to this
world. You at this Center will be this city. You will be the true Center
that places the mark on this world.
The love of Christ, abounding deep within the breasts of
all, will be the power and the might. Pray the Prayer for Union with Jesus.
I will operate in the hearts of all there and minister to My sick world. I
am the Heart of Jesus. I am on fire with love of each and every soul. When
My love is found in all the hearts there, the light of God will shine to
this world!
You are the city, set on a hill, that shines to the
darkened world. I will light the world with the love of Jesus that shines in
the hearts of those who are fed there. My light is so bright. My power is
endless. You are the light to the dark world. You contain the mighty
medicine to bring My sick ones to Me. You will bring so many back to Me and
My intense love, burning so brightly for all!
I am the power. I am the might. He who abides in Me will
have the light of life. I give Myself to you that you will live. You will
radiate My presence from your very being. My light is the brightest light. I
will live in the hearts of all who come to you for their feeding. Enkindle
in them the love for My most Sacred Heart. It is on fire for love of you. It
cannot be contained. It will live in all hearts who come to you to be fed.
You are the key to enkindle this burning love of Jesus in
the hearts of so many. Many will know Jesus through your love of Me. Read
these letters every day for I am truly speaking to you here. I love each
child so dearly and want to have an intimate union with that child. Teach
all about the burning love of Jesus. Read My messages with your heart on
fire so you can tell all of My ardent love for them.
I long to be close to them. I am a person. I am God, on
fire for love of My people. Bring all to the ardent love of Jesus. Mary is
by My side constantly. Where I am, she is there. She wants all to be led to
My ardent, longing love. Teach all about My love. Fill them so they are
overflowing in their hearts. This is the mighty medicine. It is My letter of
intense, ardent love for My people.
I am truly here, little ones. I am Jesus, Son of the
Living God. I will live strongly in the hearts of all who come to you. You
will be the key. Focus on your intense love of Me. Read My letters as a
cookbook for intimacy with Me. My love waits for each person and I tell you
here how to be close to Me. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus on fire for love
of you. I am longing for you to come and be with Me in silence. I will give
you all you need.
I am the Alpha. I am the Omega. I am your all. I am God,
one, true and magnificent, and I come to you with ardent love in Holy
Communion and in the tabernacle. I am present, Body and Blood, Soul and
Divinity. I am waiting. Our love affair waits and it depends on you. I am
there and I am waiting. You keep us apart.
Tell them how I long for them and have all they need. The
love of Christ will light their city. You will stand as the lighted city in
darkness. My love will be that by which you light this dark world. Oh, such
power, such might! The love of God will reign in the hearts of all you
touch. You are My vessel to draw this world to the love of Jesus.
Read and study My letters and be taught about My ardent
love. I am Jesus Christ and I am teaching you about My love on fire for all.
Come and be powered by the hand of God. My love will rock the world off its
rocker when it reigns in the hearts of those who come to you. I love you so!
You are My beloved. I will use you to light My dark world. You will shine as
candles in the darkest night and you will be the instruments I use to light
their wicks. I am God and I love them so dearly!
This is My love for all. Power and might will shine forth
on the land. I am the brightest light. Look into the light for the light.
Look into the arms of Jesus. I will light this world through you. Alleluia.
And the angels sang and the choirs of heaven were heard for the earth
proclaimed the Love of Jesus. Alleluia
end of February 23, 1994
July 26, 2003 message continues
Jesus speaks: On March 22, 1994, the corner fell
off the old seminary on Lucia's birthday —
Lucia is the main Fatima Visionary
after this message
I Showed You the Way--I Showed You Surrender
March 7, 1994 4:00a.m.
Jesus: You are the city set on the hill. You
will shine with the intimate love of Jesus. I am the Son of God. I am He
Whose bootstraps you are unworthy to tie.
I am Jesus and I loved My little ones to My death. Do you
know even a little about what it is to give your life for someone? Do you
think of yourself and ponder yourself being this selfless? People cannot
even take one hour to sit with Me. The world has made you all blind. You do
exactly as you want. Meditate on My sorrowful Passion. Read My meditations
on the rosary. This was My life, given for you, My little loved ones. I gave
My life for you and you want more? You want more proof and signs, yet you
cannot even pray a few moments after Communion!
I am the Master. I taught you about selflessness and
surrender. Look at My position on the cross. Yet you hold back. You want
your comfort. You want to make the world your end! Oh, you give a little.
You give Me what you dole out, a little here, a little there, and say,
"Okay, Lord, I'm good. I pray prayers. I spend my life doing holy
things, but I am in control of what and how much I give you. I am in
control, Lord. Aren't you satisfied?"
I am only satisfied when you surrender your all to Me! You
give Me such little bits and pieces and you pat yourself on the back and
look at the sick world and say, "Well, I am pretty holy." This is
not the point. You judge, you decide, you do your own will! This is you,
playing the game of running your life! You give here, you keep there. I want
your all. I want your time spent alone with Me in front of the tabernacle. I
want you to have an ardent on-fire love affair with Me. When you love, you
give. You say to your lover, "Oh, anything you ask for I will give to
you." If you ask for my shirt, I will give you my cloak as well because
I love you this much!"
You don't know about love. You control your relationships
with Me. Then what hurts My aching heart is how you talk about the love of
God. There is not love in your actions. If you came and spent your life with
Me, if you freely gave sacrifices for Me, this is love!
You look to the world and you judge yourself as doing so
much. Look to Me, hanging on the cross, and judge yourself by My standards.
I call you to an ardent love affair with Me. I call you to love--love of
God, love of one another.
You do not have love for one another because you do not
love God first. Love gives its all. Love does not seek itself. Love gives
freely!
I died on the cross to teach you how to love. I am the
Master. If you look to the world and judge yourself, you are not learning
any lessons from Me. You must look to Me to learn from Me.
Look at Me on the cross, My arms outstretched, hanging
from the cross. I gave My all! I gave Myself for love of you. I held not
back a little. I held not back and I, God, could have stopped it all, but I
gave you freely from the bottom of My heart with greatest love for you!
This, My sweet ones, is love. I showed you the way. I
showed you surrender. I am Jesus Christ and I write to you. Do you listen?
Oh, you, in your busy lives, do not surrender to Me even now.
What do I do to shake My beloved ones? You are all blind
and dense. Look at how attached you truly are. You do not surrender. You do
your will, you do your thing. I tell you over and over again to come and
pray with Me for long periods. I tell you to pray after Communion. I write
about praying before the tabernacle, but you do your will. You go to the
world. You ask your questions there. You look for answers from each other.
You do not surrender even one hour of your time.
I come and you receive Me, the Son of God, in Holy
Communion! Do you stay and sit with Me or do you do what you want? I died
for you, yet you cannot let go of even little things.
I am Jesus, Son of God. If you who profess to love Me
cannot give of your life to Me, how do you expect others to learn from you?
You teach as you are. You teach in your actions. Your actions are selfish
and centered on self. I call you to denial of self and love of God.
One person fixed to the true life of Christ can move a
mountain. You follow the world and try to do it yourself.
I preach coming to Me and sitting with Me. I, God, have
all the answers. No one listens. What do I do to shake My faithful ones in
their comfort?
I am Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God. I want to dwell
in you and operate with the power of God. I invite you to My altar. I sit
and wait with all the answers and you, in your pride, tell Me, "I am
too busy."
Busy yourself for your day is at hand and you will know My
might! I will shake the earth and you will listen. Then you will listen, but
where were you when I gave you forewarning? You are waiting for the big
boom. I am calling you now to listen to Me here.
Play your safe game. Waste your time. I am God and I am
talking to you. You do it your way. I sit with the answers. Every answer is
given here. I want My beloved ones to read these letters. I grow so tired of
your foolishness. I am God and you are busy. Die to yourself, child. I
showed you the way. I lead. You must follow Me!
I am your God. You shall have no gods before Me! Do you
pray to Me in silence? You want your answers given to you. You want My love
given instantly as you demand. I am waiting for a love affair with you. The
fire of love is enkindled. Love is time spent together. Lovers sit together
for long hours and learn to know one another. Would you give so little of
yourself to develop a love affair with Me? I sit, I wait. I am there at
every moment in all the tabernacles of this world, and you are busy!
Time is so short. One moment and it is up in smoke.
All that remain are the things of God. You are here to
know, love and serve Me. I am sending out an urgent plea to publish all
these messages--now.
These letters will turn the cold hearts to love. Do you
not think I have all the power? You tarry, you deliberate. I grow tired. I
am God and no one listens. You want Me your way. You want Me to come your
way.
I sweetly tell you, in My gentle love letters, that I
come, Jesus, the Son of God, gently in Communion. You are numb and blind.
You want Me to roll drums and blare trumpets, but I come in the quiet
moments. I roll no drums, I blare no trumpets. I come and you miss My calls!
What do I do to shake you? I, in all My might, can rock
you off your rockers. I try to prepare you but you are too busy. Hold on to
your last piece of dust and watch it go up in your face!
I am Jesus Christ, Son of God and I write to you and who
pays heed here? This should tell you of your attachment to worldly things.
You want proof. You look the other way. I am God and you contain the mighty
medicine for this sick world. I am Jesus, the Son of God. Do you listen?
Look at Me, dying on the cross. I gave My all for you. Do you not think I
would send a mighty medicine this day for you? You are so blind. You do not
listen.
I, God, talk here to you this very day.
end of March 7, 1994
My Heart Aches for You
March 13, 1994 5:45 p.m.
R. I was overtaken by an intense unrest. I was
compelled to go to the tabernacle. I felt such suffering, suffering that
Jesus suffered so for us and that everyone is so busy about their lives.
Suffering for the indifference to Him and how He loves us despite our
neglect! It was awful. I felt as I had on Christmas.
Jesus: I am the Lord, thy God. Thou shalt not have
any gods before Me. I must be first in your life.
R. If you place any woman, man, children, food,
clothing or any other little things above Him, you are not doing His will.
Jesus: I died for you, sweet one. I allow you to
suffer. This is suffering. You are given this to know how I suffered. You I
only give such little things. I suffered, sweet one. I suffered, bloodied,
bruised and beaten. Blood rolled down My cheeks. My head was pierced with
sharp thorns. They spat on Me. They whipped Me. They beat Me on My head, My
precious head. They hit Me on My thorns and the pain was so intense--the
piercing thorns! I was slapped hard by these senseless ones. Oh, such evil
in the hearts of those who beat Me, the Son of God!
My whole Body ached from head to toe. I suffered so, My
child. You will never know how I suffered for love of you. I am God and I
loved all My precious ones to My death--and they ignore Me!
Oh, how I suffer from this wounded heart. They will never
know what love I have to give them. They will never know how I, God, love
them. They are so busy with their worldly lives!
You must tell them how I wait for them. I wait. I want
them to come and I will give them such love! Tell them, Rita, tell them!
Your discontent is from what emotions I give you and you keep them inside. I
want all to know Me and My love. I am crying out to you, little one. Tell
them, tell them. Do not waste any time. I am crying out for you to spread
this message. I want you to tell all of My love and how I am waiting.
Emotion! Emotion! I am crying out to you in your heart!
I long for their love. I died for them. How do I make them
know if you, to whom I speak, hold back? I want you to get the messages out,
child.
I loved all My beloved ones to My death. I love you this
way this day. I am Jesus. I am begging you to not hold back this emotion.
Oh, child, My beloved ones are blind and are going down
the road that leads to nowhere. You must preach My message. You must
distribute My letters. You must tell all how I wait here!
Go to My faithful ones. Spread the messages at the Center.
Keep them in your car. You will be called on in an instant and I will speak
My message to My beloved ones through you.
Ready yourself for a big boom. No one is listening. I am
crying out to you. Prepare your brothers. They are in darkness. Their souls
are dying inside of them. Some come to Me with such indifference in
Communion.
I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I am on fire for love of
them. I am Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God. I call you to this state of
urgency. Move your friends by this urgent letter. There is no more time to
waste. I call you all here to deliver this message personally to you. I am
Jesus. I am begging each of you to spread My message. Tell them of My ardent
love. In each moment you waste, souls will be lost.
I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I am your God. I am
calling to you. Will you listen or will you be numb to My pleading? I yearn
for your love. Come and sit with Me every day. Sit in front of My tabernacle
so I can give you what you need. Pray the Prayer for Union with Jesus.
I am Jesus, the Son of God. I cry out to you to preach My
love. Spread these messages. Tell all you meet that I, Jesus, am alone. I am
in your midst and I love you this very day. I wait for you in the
tabernacle. Come and be with Me every day. This is all that you need. I give
you everything. All will work when you come to Me to get your supplies.
Come to Mass and Communion daily. I wait for you to come
and be in union with Me. I want to be so close to you. I love you all and I
am asking you each to busy yourself about your love affair with Me. Make Me
first in your life. Give Me all you are. Pray My Prayer for Union all
through the day.
It is your union with Me that will change this world. You
will light the lights of the souls in darkness. They will see the might of
God in your soul. Energy will be emitted from your very being. You will be
as you are, My most important workers, just in your being, if you surrender
and be about our love affair!
It's so simple. Come to Me, be united in Communion, pray
with Me in silence after Communion, pray to the Holy Spirit for all of His
gifts. Pray, lay hands on each other for strength. I am Jesus. I am alive. I
will live in you in such a way that you will do such wonders, just in your
being more in love with Me.
I love you all dearly. Open yourselves. Be selfless and
let Me possess your soul! I love you. Jesus
end of March 13, 1994
Matthew 21: 42
Jesus said to them, ‘Have you never
read in the scriptures:
The stone which the
builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
this is the Lord’s doing
and we marvel at it?
July 26, 2003 message continues
Jesus speaks: This is My Movement Shepherds of Christ.
These are My Messages.
Mary appears on the building in Clearwater to
circulate this message.
PLEASE
HELP
ME
Mary speaks: Circulate these image wallets with
the web-address — I appear
on this web site.
I am Mary your Mother.
Matthew 21: 42
Jesus said to them, ‘Have you never
read in the scriptures:
The stone which the
builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
this is the Lord’s doing
and we marvel at it?
July 26, 2003 message continues
Mary speaks: My Son gives this Movement
Shepherds of Christ to help renew the
Church and the world.
You are not reaching for the holiness
God desires.
There will be a great era of peace.
This message will air on the Blue
Book Reading August 3, 2003
at 4:37 PM.
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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
Morrow, OH 45152
(toll free) 1-888-211-3041
1-513-932-4451
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