Pray for Chuck, Cathy & Jeff
and Special Intentions. 
 

Consecration Prayer for Peace

I consecrate Russia and the Ukraine to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

I further consecrate the priests, the Church and the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

I do this in the name of Jesus in as far as I am able, united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, praying to the Father, in the Holy Spirit, with all the angels and saints and the souls in purgatory through the powerful intercession of Mary, Queen of Peace. Amen.

I further consecrate myself, all members of my family and ask the Holy Spirit to fill us. I spread the Blood of Jesus on all above, I cast the devil into hell away from all of us and consecrate all persons, in as far as I am able,  to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart.

     

Prayer for Grace for our Country

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

 

July 30, 2022

28 Years Ago

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)

St. Ignatius Spiritual Exercises

“We are created to praise,
reverence, and serve God.”
“God created all other
things on the face of the
earth to help fulfill this
purpose.”

R. Fr. Carter did his examine
two times a day for 10
minutes.
He would sit hands up,
close his eyes and
meditate.
In that 10 minutes we ask
ourselves are we doing the
Father’s will. Are we living
in love?
If we are off from this, we
pray God helps us to go
back to where we are
supposed to be.

Many times the ego gets in,
to do it my way and my
time and push others away.

I think of the gifts, talents
God has given me and give
thanks for the privilege
I have to serve God.

Oh my God, I love and
praise you.
Help me to be humble,
living in the truth.
Help me to be in such love
of You.
Help me to have that
oneness with You in all I do.
I love You, my God, please
be one in me in all I do.

I praise You, I am in awe of
You and Your beauty given
to me today.
Help me to treat others as
You want me to. Help me to
communicate and
cooperate with others and
appreciate the gift others
are to me.

Bless me, my precious God
in living one in You, and
doing your work.
 

Galatians 2: 19-20

...I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me.

Dear God,
“You have given all to me, I
give You My life.”
Thank you for this precious
day. Help me to move and
breath and be a servant
here in your army for You.
I am Yours Lord, Come and
Possess my soul.

Gratitude, love,
unity, praise, reverence and
serve the Lord.
 

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 29, 2022

July 29, 2022
 

R. How many beautiful skies
are missed everyday,
sunrise, sunset beautiful
skies.
 

R. How many other things are
all around us and we miss
because our eyes are
down, our minds occupied,
focused on many busy
things and worries.
   

   
R. Dear God help us to smell
the flowers, see the little
ones at play.
Dear God help us not to
miss out on the beauties all
around you.

So if we can see visual
beauties we miss, what
about kindness, love in the
hearts, relationships,
because we don’t want to
put energy into such
things.

Two men looked out prison
bars, one saw mud another
stars.
 

R. A little red bird, fluttered his
wings and basks in the sun.
God’s little creation among
the beauty green foliage.

 
R. So if we miss things we
see, what about caring and
love all around us.
What about the new day
God gives us every day?
What about blessings,
people in our lives …

R. Thank you God, help us to
see, to listen, to know, to
live in the present moment.

Song: Live This Day

 

 

July 30, 2022 midnight
12:00 AM

 

28 Years Ago

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)

 

   

Sorrowful Mysteries

July 30, 1996

Shepherds of Christ Meeting

The Agony in the Garden

1. R. This is a rosary from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Let us join in one mind and one heart. Let us give our hearts to Jesus and Mary, and let us ask the Holy Spirit to come and to fill us with the fire of God’s love.

2. R. It is in the rosary that we meditate on the lives of Jesus and Mary. It is in meditating on Their lives that we live Their lives in our life.

3. R. Jesus wants us to be so close to Him. He wants to live in our life. As we go about our day, He wants to touch those we touch. We must open up our hearts, and let Him work in this rosary that we may be drawn closer and closer to His Heart.

4. R. We are commissioned in Baptism to carry out His life, death and resurrection in our lives. As we meditate on the mysteries of this rosary, let us feel this mystery in our life. We live this mystery in our lives. We meditate on the lives of Jesus and Mary.

5. R. Be with Jesus in the garden. See Him there is such agony, stooped over with such pain within His Heart that we cannot even imagine. See Him there. See His face, the anguish in His face. See His body stooped over. See the tenseness in His body, and see Him all alone.

6. R. I know many times, Jesus, I feel such suffering in my life. I know a little of the suffering that You suffered. I want You, Jesus, to live in Me. I want You, Jesus, to minister to those You love, through me. I want, Jesus, to see You in my brothers. Help me to be more like You, and help me to see You in all my brothers.

7. R. Jesus wants to be one in us. If we see Jesus in the garden, all stooped over and sweating blood, if we see this agony of our beloved Jesus, let us, when we are undergoing suffering, remember Jesus and identify this suffering, that He is allowing us to undergo, with His suffering.

8. R. It is in living Their lives in our life, that we will more identify with Him in all of our actions.

9. R. I go back over my life and I can see the times that He allowed me to suffer, and I can think how important those times were to help me to grow more and more in my life in Him. These are very special moments in my life, for they were the turning point that helped me to be closer to my beloved Jesus, the one that I love so much.

10. R. God showed me a vision of a dark cavern, and the walls were pointed rocks. It was totally black and so small, and I felt the rocks as they pressed against my body. It was in that dark cavern, it was in the darkness, it was in the pressing down in my life, that I met my beloved Jesus. And then He took me into another room that was dimly lighted. There the walls did not press in. Although they were still covered with rocks, there was light, and the rocks did not press in on me. It was in that dark room, when it was so dark and so small, that I turned to Jesus and He took my hand and led me into the light.

Song: A Song from Jesus

 

The Scourging at the Pillar

1. R. See Jesus, His beautiful, dark hair. See His body, and see the men as they come to Jesus and they lead Him away to be scourged. Jesus does not resist the men. Jesus goes willingly, and He allows the men to tie Him to the pillar.

2. R. My beautiful God, it is many times in my life that I have suffered persecution and words that others have said to me, and it was in those times that it was so hard that I thought that they would never end. But I look back, now, over those times with great joy, because it was in the suffering that I met You, my beloved Jesus, that I saw Your eyes, that I saw the end of the tunnel, that I saw the light after so much suffering, and that I was embraced by You, my Divine Lover, that I felt Your presence - the presence of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. And nothing, nothing on this earth can compare to one second of feeling this presence of the Almighty God.

3. R. Jesus stood at the pillar and they beat Him, and they tore His beautiful skin. He was covered with wounds all over His body. His face was swollen. His eyes were covered with blood from the blows to His head. Jesus did not resist. Jesus did not fight back. Jesus stood there and took all of this treatment.

4. R. Think of how it is to love someone so dearly and to be offended by them and how it hurts our heart. Think of how it was for Jesus to stand at the pillar and to be beaten by the men that He loved so much.

5. Jesus: I am with you in all of the trials that you are suffering. I am so close to you. Look at Me. Look into My eyes covered with blood and wounds. Look deeply into My eyes, and see the gentle love that I have for you. Do not be afraid, My beloved ones, for I know that you are suffering in your lives, but I am as close as your breath. I am with you at every moment and every second. You must have before your eyes this vision of the scourging at the pillar. This is the love that I have for you. See the blood on My face. This is the blood that I shed for love of you. I am Jesus. I am longing and thirsting for your love. I am waiting for you. It is your love that comforted My aching Heart when they beat Me at the pillar. Come to Me, My sweet child, and tell Me how much you love Me. I love you. I love you. I love you.

6. R. Jesus, I keep praying for the grace, for I want to be so close to You, and I want to feel You so close to me. I pray and I pray, and sometimes You feel so far away. When the struggles press in on me, Jesus, I feel the struggles so hard against me. But I know, Jesus, that You allow me to suffer, many times, for the sake of Your precious souls. I love You, Jesus. Please, give me the grace, the grace that I need to do whatever it is that You want me to do.

7. Jesus: My child, you must remember that I am with you at every second. In all of your activities, you must unite with Me. In all of your thoughts, you must come to Me. You must let Me live in your life.

8. R. Jesus no longer walks the earth. Jesus lives in us, and He ministers to this hurting world through us. We are His hands. We are His Heart beating in this world today. My beloved Jesus, I want You to live in me, but I know that I am totally dependent upon You to give me what I need. I beg You for the grace that I will be more and more like You, that I will do more and more what You want me to do. Jesus was scourged at the pillar for love of us. See Him there. See the blood around His eyes, the blood on His arms, the open wounds on His body. See this man, this man - Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who came to this earth and allowed Himself, the Son of God, Almighty and all powerful, to be bound to a pillar. See Jesus and know how much He loves us.

9. R. When I feel pressed on, when I feel persecuted and whipped many times with words, I must unite my sufferings to the sufferings of Jesus and remember Him at the pillar.

10. Song: I Love You Jesus

Song: A Song from Jesus

 

The Crowning with Thorns

1. R. Jesus no longer walks the earth. Jesus lives in us. Look at us. Look at us and see. Do we act like Jesus? When we are under duress, do people look at us and see Jesus? This is the time that Jesus wants to touch our brothers. How are we when we are under duress? Do we act like Jesus?

2. R. I looked at myself, and I saw how befragled I was many times, and I thought of the peace of Jesus. Even as He stood at the pillar and was whipped, there was not anxiety. Jesus suffered. Jesus was crowned with thorns. Jesus carried the cross. Jesus died on the cross. But His way was always the way of peace and love. So many times under little struggles, I saw myself as He let me see myself, and I knew that I did not act like Jesus.

3. R. Jesus, I want to be the light that shines in the darkness, but it is so hard and how miserably I feel. Jesus, I need grace, and Jesus replied to me that love is an act of the will, that I must love all of my brothers, that I must consciously say in my heart, “I love you,” to all of my brothers. When I am taunted by satan with thoughts of division in my mind, I must look at my brother in my mind and say, “I love you.” Jesus told me that He would give me the grace, but that love is an act of the will, and I must will to love my brothers, all my brothers, that I must not have preconceived ideas of people I do not even know. I must send them love silently, when I see people and say, “I love you, my brother.”

4. R. Look at the gentle face of Jesus, His beautiful, brown hair, and His beautiful eyes. Look at Him as He sits on the mock throne, and they pound into His precious head a sharp crown of piercing thorns. Jesus suffered, how Jesus suffered to His Heart and to His body for love of us. They pounded into His head - thorns. Think of the thoughts that we think, of division towards those that He loved. Jesus suffered for the things that we do to one another, for the thoughts that we have. Jesus paid for the thoughts that we have with a crown of thorns.

5. Jesus: You are My soldiers of love that will march into the world, that will carry a banner of light. All will see you, and they will see My light shining from you. I am giving to you great grace that you will have hearts that are filled with love, that your hearts will unite to Mine, that we will be one. You must put aside all thoughts of division toward one another. You must will to love all your brothers. You are My apostles that I am sending into the world that will shine as the brightest lights in the darkness. I am calling to you, this evening, to make an effort to tell all your brothers how you love them, to put aside thoughts of division, and change your thoughts to thoughts of love. In My Heart there is love. When there is division in your heart, your heart will not unite with Mine.

6. R. In our minds there is pride. Jesus tells me over and over again about the pride in the minds of men. Look at Jesus as He sits on the throne, and they pound into His head the crown of thorns. See the blood as it rolls down His face and covers His eyes and His ears. Jesus truly paid for the price of our pride with His suffering.

7. Jesus: I call you to be little children dependent on your heavenly Father. I call you to be the children of My Mother. I call you to be humble, to be loving, to come to Me and I will fill you with My love.

8. R. It is in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, the Hearts that are filled with such love, that our hearts will be turned into hearts of love. It is in love that we will have peace in the world. When hearts are consecrated to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, they will respond with love and not with hate.

Jesus: I am calling you, My beloved ones, to go into the world and to spread this consecration, for many hearts this day are cold.

9. Song: I Love You Jesus

Jesus: My way is love. I call you to love. It is an act of the will to love.

10. Song: Crown Him With Many Crowns

Jesus: I love you. I love you. I love you. I am the King of Kings, and they crowned Me with a crown of thorns.

Song: A Song from Jesus

 

The Carrying of the Cross

1. Jesus: I am alive. I am alive. I am alive, and I live in your heart. My dear one, how are you carrying your cross this day? See Me with My cross on My back, and look into My eyes for My eyes are filled with love for you. I allow you to suffer, for it is in the suffering that you will unite more and more with Me in such love.

2. R. We see Jesus with the cross on His back. We see Jesus, His head crowned with thorns and His body covered with wounds. Jesus had lost so much blood that He could hardly go on, and He fell under the weight of the cross, and they jabbed into His body.

3. R. Jesus gives to us suffering that we will unite closer to Him. Look back over your life, and see, many times, how He allowed us to carry the cross, how it was so hard and we wanted to give it up. Think of Jesus carrying the cross and how He went on. Even though He fell to the ground, He went on. It is in identifying our suffering with Jesus that we will be able to stand all that He sends us and that we will grow more and more in His life.

4. R. Did you carry the cross and carry the cross and carry the cross, and then you said, “This is just to hard. Jesus, take this cross away.”

Jesus: My dear ones, I watch you. Every second, I watch you. And I watch you struggle, and I know what is coming in your lives. I know the grace that you will receive. I know the life that you will have. I know how close we will become. I am asking you, this night, to carry the cross on your back and to know that I am giving you these sufferings that you will grow more and more in My life.

5. R. Jesus, I meditate on You carrying Your cross, and I see Your eyes and I see the blood covering Your body, but many times when I struggle, I do not identify these sufferings with Your passion until it is so bad, and then I identify it with the passion. Help me to identify everything in my life with Your life.

6. R. We are commissioned in Baptism to carry out His life, death and resurrection in our lives. Oh the glory, the glory that we receive when we become closer to our beloved Savior, for nothing, nothing on the face of this earth can compare to this intimate love with our beloved Jesus.

7. Jesus: I love you. I love you. I love you. I am guarding you. I am watching you. I am with you at every second. You must surrender and let go, and you must trust in Me, knowing that I am here at every moment and that you are never alone. I am watching you. I am watching you, and I am loving you.

8. Jesus: I am teaching you this day. I am teaching you the lessons of My love for you are My apostles that will carry My love into this world. You do not understand how great is the mission that I have called you to.

9. R. And He fell to the ground and His chin hit the earth, and they poked at Him and they pushed Him. He was so weak and covered with blood and wounds, but the greatest sufferings were not the sufferings that He experienced to His body, they were the sufferings that He suffered to His most gentle, loving Heart.

10. R. Look into the eyes of Jesus and Mary on the way to Calvary. Be caught in the embrace between the look between the Son and His Mother. Let us be caught in the embrace of this love between these Two Hearts, the Hearts that love us so.

Song: A Song from Jesus

 

The Crucifixion

1. Jesus: Will you walk with Me on the way to Calvary? Will you carry the cross on your back? Will you take the wounds that I send to you? Will you say, “Yes, yes Lord. I love You, Lord. I give myself to You.”?

2. Jesus: It is in giving that you receive. My beloved ones, see Me hanging on the cross, My arms outstretched. I gave My all for love of you. You must give yourselves to Me. We will be one depending on how much you give yourself to Me. Pray for the grace to surrender and to die to yourselves.

3. Song: Unless a Grain of Wheat

4. R. I want to be one with You, my beloved Savior, to unite in such oneness with You. I pray for the grace that I may die more and more to myself and become one in You. I love You. I love You. I love You.

5. R. See Jesus on the cross, both hands are pierced, both feet are pierced. His head is crowned with thorns, and He has all the wounds of His entire passion, and He hangs on the cross with every wound, with every wound in His head, with the piercing in His hands and His feet. Be with Jesus in those last moments before His death. Be with Him and feel the pain. And He calls out to His Father, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”

6. Jesus: My beloved one, I allowed you to experience this suffering, to know what it was to suffer for I truly suffered for love of you. I suffered as I hung on the cross for the words of hatred that you say about your brothers. I am Jesus. I am asking you to give yourselves to Me and to one another, to love Me and to love one another. I suffered. I suffered because of the hatred in your hearts, because of the words in your mouth that were condemning toward one another. I am sending you into the world, My soldiers of love. Pray for the grace that you will be pure in your hearts.

7. Hail Mary

8. Hail Mary

9. R. I knew that Jesus suffered. I saw Jesus all through the passion, and I saw His bloody body. I saw Him as He hung on the cross, but I did not realize. I did not realize until He allowed me to suffer and told me that I was suffering for the words that I say toward my brothers. See Jesus as He hangs on the cross, as His hands are pierced, and His head is crowned with thorns. See every thorn that is piercing His head. See all the wounds on His body. See His withered body as He hangs the seconds before His death, and feel the pain in His body for He suffered. He suffered for my sins, for your sins. He suffered for all of the words of hate that we say about one another. We are the children of light that will carry the messages of His love into the world. If someone looks at us when we are under duress, do they see Christ in us?

10. Jesus: You must come to My Heart, and I will fill you with My love. But love is an act of the will. You must say in your heart, whenever you are taunted by thoughts of division, “I love my brother. I love my sister. I love that person.” and send love to all that you meet. Silently in your heart send them love for you are My Heart this day, beating in this world. Send them My love. I am alive. I am alive. I am alive, and I live in your heart.

R. And they pierced His heart with a lance, and what came forth was blood and water. He truly gave His all for love of us, and He gives His all to us this day. We must go to Him and ask Him to fill us with His love.

See Mary under the cross, and feel the pain in her heart, the pain to know how many of her children would be lost because of their hatred and anger. Mary has called us to be the children of light, to go into the dark world and to spread the love of her Son. It is under duress that we will spread His love, and it will touch many hearts. We must pray to be holy. We must go to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary and dwell in Their Hearts that we will be made holy.

Song: A Song from Jesus

Jesus: You are the hearts of love beating in this world today. I have called you in the Shepherds of Christ Movement to go into the world and to spread My love. Give Me your heart. Do not think thoughts of division toward one another. Think thoughts of love. My Heart is a Heart of love. You must pray for the grace to grow more and more in holiness. You must pray for the grace to love.