Mary has requested that the daily message be given each day to the world. It is read nightly at the prayer service from her Image Building in Clearwater, Florida, U.S.A. This is according to her request. All attempts will be made to publish this daily message to the world at 11 p.m. Eastern time, U.S.A.

We acknowledge that the final authority regarding these messages rests with the Holy See of Rome.

 I appear my children on this former bank building in Florida, Our Lady Clothed with the Sun.

July 6, 1999

A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul

Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.

A NOTE TO ALL FROM JESUS

Jesus speaks: I ASK THIS:

  1. PRAY THE MORNING OFFERING.
  2. CONSECRATE YOUR HEARTS TO OUR TWO HEARTS
    (living this consecration all through the day).
  3. PRAY TO HELP SAVE SOULS and for THE INTENTIONS OF MY MOVEMENT, SHEPHERDS OF CHRIST.   Offer your day for this.
  4. PRAY THE PRAYERS I give you for the renewal of the Church and the world and for the priests as found in the Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual.
  5. Attend Mass as often as possible, daily if you can. See yourself in Lucia's vision as Lucia, pleading at Mass for grace and mercy.

    6. Vision of Lucia, main visionary of Fatima, 1929

  6. See yourself as a member of the whole human race, and beg for forgiveness from your God for your sins and the sins of all mankind. Unite your whole day to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass being offered around the world and beg for grace and mercy.
  7. Pray the rosary.
  8. Do all you can to begin prayer chapters and get others to pray the prayers (Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual), especially before the tabernacle in churches.
  9. Spread the priestly newsletter to all priests possible and help in any way you can to spread the newsletter to priests.
  10. Pray hourly, if possible. Pray to the Father in the name of Jesus through the powerful intercession of Mary with all the angels and saints for souls, for priests, for your Church and your world and for the intentions of My Movement, Shepherds of Christ.

July 6, 1999 - 2nd message

Mary's Message - AN EXPLANATION

Messenger: Yesterday our Lord asked me to put a writing on the Internet from July 5, 1994. It was that day Mary first appeared to me in the series of apparitions that would last 14 months with daily apparitions.

In those months and during those apparitions I learned more about the beautiful Woman we call Mary, Mother of Jesus. She shared with me the emotions of her Heart and deeper understanding into the tender, loving Heart of her Son, Jesus.

The writing of yesterday came at the beginning of the apparitions that lead to messages given from the depth of Their hearts given during the rosaries. Many of these messages are published in books under the title Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. They are messages given to us to take us into a deeper oneness with God and to know Him most intimately. The writings that are appearing on the Internet are there at the request of our Lord. The writings were given in a booklet at the monthly 17th Meeting in July, 1994, at the request of our Lord. They are important writings, for they tell us much about what our Lord and our Lady wanted us to know when this series of about 500 apparitions from our Lady followed. Some apparitions from our Lord also took place.

These writings have never been released to the public. We include some of these writings here.

This series of messages were to lead us into a deeper intimate love with Jesus and Mary in Their Hearts.

Please read all the messages dated July, 1994, within this context. I knew nothing of the events to follow in July of 1994, or in the daily apparitions of Mary. This material, had it been published, would have appeared in God's Blue Book IV. Some day we hope to release these writings. These writings were to take us more deeply into Their Hearts and lead us to a deeper consecration to Their Hearts.

Explanation of a live rosary

(Excerpt taken from November 4, 1998, daily message)

Messenger: The live rosaries consist in this. On the direction of our Lord, I do this rosary. Mary and Jesus give messages verbally as we pray the rosary. Usually another person leads as I receive the messages. These rosaries are then transcribed and typed. They are reviewed by a competent priest theologian. The last book of rosaries for children and parents has been approved for the Imprimatur. Future rosaries without messages, now will be sent for approval to the Chancery in the hope we can circulate rosary meditations to the schools. These rosary meditations are to help the love of Jesus and Mary come alive in men's hearts. They are called Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

July 14, 1994 - 17th Meeting

Messenger: The rosary tells us much about Christ and Mary.

How can I be Christ-like if I do not meditate on His Life? My life is to be a model after Christ's life. How can I model myself after how He loved if I am not intimately involved in a love relationship with Him?

Christ shows us the way. Jesus went through His Passion and death for our salvation and for love of us.

The more I meditate on the rosary, the more I see the oneness of Christ and His Mother. They are one in Their Hearts. They shared each Other's pains, sorrows, joys, suffering. They were so connected to each Other.

This is shown all through the Passion, her sorrows, presentation in the temple, finding in the temple, her journey into Egypt, her watching during the scourging, her journey during the Passion when Their eyes met, (this alone could be meditated on to tell Their union and suffering) putting the nails in His hands, standing under the cross, beholding His lifeless Body under the cross, and after His death, laying Him in the tomb.

Their Hearts beat as one, as she suffered so silently with Him, always by His side. No Mother was ever so connected with her Son.

Sorrow increases intimacy. When I suffer and give it to Christ, I am admitting how much He is truly a Person I depend on. I want to depend on Him, to be so intimate that it is He to Whom I run when my heart is torn.

He loves us so, He knows our every thought and feeling. He loves us with such attentiveness and care, and He waits for us to run to His arms and share ourselves with Him.

He longs for our love, He longs for our time. He wants us to go to Him as our best Friend, a real Person, but what a Person and what He can do for us!

You are my Savior Lord, you saved me from my sins by Your brutal death. You give me life in Your Resurrection. I am born into your life in Baptism and You live in my heart. God lives within me. Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwell within my breast in a most special way when I am in the state of grace. Mary is one with Jesus.

Oh, God, I love You so. I want to know you and love you and serve you.

Spirit, open me to know my precious Lord. I am Yours to possess and I live to do Your holy will.

Father, fashion me, mold me more into the image of Jesus, Your precious Son. "...yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me...(Ga 2:20). I want to be one in You, so that You live and dwell in my heart.

Meditating on the rosary is meditating on much of Christ's Life. How can I be molded more into His image, if I do not meditate on Him and His Life?

The First Commandment commands that I love God above all things. What is love? Is it lip service or is it a fire that burns within the soul?

May my love of God be this flame that burns for love of each Person in God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit and for Mary also. May I grow in intimacy with each Person and Mary, and may Joseph be close by her side as he stood close to Jesus and guarded Him.

Luke 1:46-48

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,

Messenger: He has created us in His own image and likeness. We are His creation, the creation of Him Who loved us first. Ought we not love Him with all our hearts and love one another? All of us are His marvelous creations.

Jesus died that we all might live. He shed the last drop of His Blood, He gave the last beat of His Heart for each and every person.

Let us be united as brothers in Christ. God is my Father, He is your Father, He is Jesus' Father, He is the Father, we are His blessed children and He loves what He creates.

Jesus speaks: I am the Lord, thy God, I am Jesus, Son of God. I came that you might have life and have it abundantly. I will hold your hand and be forever with you.

My Mother is your very own Mother. She loves you and mothers you as she Mothered Me.

My Father is your very own Father. He created you and loves you so much He sent His only Son to be a living Sacrifice so you might partake in His life.

I give Myself to you totally in the Eucharist, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity. I wait for you to come to the tabernacle, I love you so.

The Spirit loves you so and in Him you have the life you need to be united to God. Pray to Him for this life, beg Him for the gifts whereby you will grow in your love and union with God.

This is My Commandment to you: Love God above all things and love your neighbor as yourself.

Be united to the one, true God, for He is truly present and lives in your hearts.

Question for married couples and others in intimate relationships:

Q: How do I feel suffering in our relationship has led us to greater life?

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