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.

August 18, 2004

Live Rosary August 19, 2004

in China, Indiana

in honor of the 4th apparation 

of Mary at Fatima 

August 19, 1917.

Excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima and Medjugorje
 

August 13, 1917

"Because of the excitement caused by the apparitions, the civil authorities were so alarmed that they kidnapped the three young visionaries and put them in jail. The incarceration period included the day of August 13. Consequently, Our Lady did not appear to the children on this particular 13th. The authorities, fearing reaction on the part of the people, quickly released the children.
 

August 19, 1917

Mary appeared to them on August 19 near Valinhos:

She told them she was greatly displeased by the action of the mayor. As a result, the miracle promised for October would not be as impressive as originally planned. (15)"

                              15. Our Lady's Peace Plan, op cit., p.6.
  

This will be a special 
healing rosary.

This is the Sidney Rosary 
for August.

The next retreat will begin on the 

night of September 12th at 6:20 pm

September 13th thru the 16th.

We have DVDs available of the
Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious Mysteries
of the Rosary with short mediations
especially for schools.

These DVDs can be shown on
a projector for classrooms.

It is really wonderful!
  

Please Pray for the 

Newsletter and all its needs,

special priest and all involved

Sarah and Mom

urgent intentions.

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(very wonderful parts from the retreat)

You can see the China church live.
 

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August 18, 2004

Rita delivered this before the exposed Eucharist with her eyes closed to the people at the retreat while the hurricane was going on in Florida. 

I transcribed it from the tape. Doris  

This talk was delivered from Jesus through Rita that day 
as she knelt before the Blessed Sacrament 
transcribed from a tape.

Here is part of a talk given before the Blessed Sacrament 
August 13, 2004 transcribed from a tape.
  

The apostles, servants and handmaids
had just made their commitment.

August 13, 2004

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

    The commitment that we made is a serious commitment that our Lord wishes us to give ourselves especially to this Movement to help to spread this consecration to the world and to deliver the message that He has given to us through the priestly newsletter, through the Blue Book writings, through the rosary meditations. We have been given many gifts and God has called each one of us in a different way to respond.

    It is in living the vocation that God has given to us to the full as much as we can in the capacity that He has called us that is important.

    For some it may be to give their life as a servant and a handmaid, to another it may be to give themselves as an Apostle of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or an Apostle of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, to others it may be to serve Him as an Associate.

    These levels were given to Fr. Carter in the beginning by Jesus. And as early as 1994 he knew that the Movement would be this way with these different levels of commitment.

    He desires that the Shepherds of Christ Movement, the servants and handmaids become an order and we have worked in any way that we can in order to begin this. There will be much preparation and prayer in order for us to really do what Our Lord wants with the Shepherds of Christ Movement. But it is not a little call to establish an order to help renew the Church and the world. It will be through very much sacrifice and commitment and giving of oneself and obedience to the messages that God has given.

    Never have I been given messages from Jesus and not followed them to the T and not been rewarded. The Movement that He wants is a Movement of sisters and brothers that will be very, very committed to His Sacred Heart that will live the bridal union that He so desires of His sisters and brothers in the Church. But it is in not letting down any of the rules that God has given to us in what some may consider an ouster prayer life.

    But in following the direction that God has given from the beginning when Fr. Carter received the message in 1994 of the different levels of commitment that would come from the Shepherds of Christ Movement. It doesn't take a lot of intelligence to see that this Movement is structured as it is, was established far beyond our capability. For I was a Math teacher and a mother raising children and Fr. Carter a Jesuit priest, but through the messages that God has given, it has taken us to the place where we are today.

    And as the message said that I faxed around the day before I got the Birthday Video, it said that we were at the top of the mountain with the Priestly Newsletter that we will now circulate to the 85,000 priests. And it entails a lot of prayer and commitment on your part in order to do what Our Lord wants to with the Shepherds of Christ Movement. With the support of Fr. Lou and his provincial and his rector and the people that stand behind the newsletter we can do much of what God has wished us to do from the beginning.

    The Shepherds of Christ Movement is in the infancy stages and you have been called by Jesus to respond, to be in the foreground, to be the ones that will help this come about. But satan wants to keep people at the bottom of the mountain instead of at the top. And God has given us many visions, insights into the ecstasies to lead us to a wider vision, to know just a taste of what it will be in eternity.

    And what a loss for the souls, the souls that Mary cried about when she appeared to me every day for the 14 months, the ones that could be lost for all eternity because they continued a life of sin and did not do what God asked them to do in the commandments. This is a serious commitment. It is not a little thing. And the message that I got yesterday morning is very, very important.

    When you think of one soul that didn't make it to heaven for all eternity. It brings tears to my eyes and a lump in my throat. For I long to be there with such desire myself and the fact that any person might not make it just makes me want to cry. God has called you and me to be the helper to lead souls so that they will be in heaven for all eternity.

    It is not a little commitment when the Blessed Mother appears as she did on the building in Clearwater. It is an enormous calling. We see the impact that the Fatima message had on the world and the calling of the Blessed Mother to the three visionaries. But the calling has been given loud and clear to you and you have answered the call. It is with enthusiasm and love and gratitude that God wants us to respond. It is with the vision that He has given to us over and over again in the Blue Book writings and the rosary meditations. The vision that God has called each and every one of us with all of our talents and prepared us for this commitment.

    To me it may have been certain testing that I went through in order to say yes, to have the faith to keep moving on when there was so many people that surround me that thought that I might have been a little funny. To you it was a different commitment. It was a commitment of your time, your talents, your love for Jesus, whatever it was, that God has called each one of us. It's not like one of can say, I am going to do this on my own because I am going to get divided with you. It isn't like that. Time and time again when I know I feel that it is most difficult to be able to communicate, it is in those times that I look and I focus on the will of God. And I focus on the fact of not how I feel about the situation but about what He wants. And it takes discipline and sometimes suffering in order to keep going on and going on and climbing that mountain when you feel like someone should know because God said it to you so strongly. And they just don't seem to hear when you say it over and over again.

    I call you today as a messenger from God to pray fervently for the grace to live out this vocation, to join hands with me, to help me to do what God has called us to do in the Shepherds of Christ Movement, to form an order and to pray for that, to pray for the Bishops and the Pope and the people over us, to spread the Blood of Jesus on the Movement and consecrate the hearts of all in it, to cast the devil far away and to pray for the coming of the Holy Spirit. And also to pray for all those, every day, some of you can pray more than others, that touch the Movement, that this will give us added protection when the Blood of Jesus is spread on the Movement and the people respond more in tune with God's will instead of in adversity.

    God has called me to deliver this message to you today. To tell you how important it is for one soul that is lost for all eternity is a great loss. Because He suffered and He died and He came to this earth for each and every soul. 

    And He has called us to help Him. I am not asking you to do anything that is not God's will. I am asking you to pray about this and to do God's will in the capacity that He has called you to respond. And to not to focus on me as the messenger or trying to please me, but to see my own struggle in the situation and realizing that God speaks to me. And it is most difficult in my heart to realize that some souls will not make it to the top, to the arms of God. And we have a hand it that.

    The day that Mary appeared on the building as she did, and the day that we were able to begin spreading the materials and being there and the fact that we have the building today gives us an important mission. But He gives us also the commitment of the heart, the desire to be able to do what God has asked us to do, to pray for the discipline, to not give into the temptations sometimes when we know God is calling us to do something and to give into our feelings when God is telling us to do something. God sends people to the Virgin Mary Building that they will receive this message, that they will help, they come from afar and they come from all over the world.

    Remember long ago, remember. Mary would appear to me very day at 6:30 at the Holy Spirit Center and this was in August of 1994, 10 years ago. And every day I would anxiously wait and Fr. Carter would go and so would Joe and Cathy, my two children. And then we would start the Shepherds of Christ Movement after that. And sometimes I would see Mary again and other people would see things. 

    And very strongly I would deliver the messages that are now in the Red Rosary Book from Jesus and Mary that would say that we were the apostles that He is sending into the world and so far we hadn't left that seat in the back of the Holy Spirit Center. A lot of nerve you say for me to sit there, to sit on that chair and to say that I was speaking for Jesus and say that we are the apostles that He is sending into the world. It was not nerve. It was the fact that I saw Our Lady before me, that I had Fr. Carter by my side then, a tremendously talented Jesuit theologian who would receive the messages himself. The messages that he knew the direction that this Movement would go in. 

    And he knew too that he would die someday because he kept saying to John and me, he would say "You and Rita are going to be left and then you're going to have to run the Movement." And I would never listen because I never thought that he would really leave. And I thought Our Lady of Clearwater would heal him. But on December the 18th, he died of the year 2000.

    And I didn't know how we would get that money to put the first newsletter out but he told me to. And I struggled and I remember sitting on the floor in my living room with Jane and Emily and I was so sore from the sorting of the pages and all the stuff that went into these letters begging for donations. And that's how it's been since 1994 one little mountain to the next. People that would say to me in 1994 "Why do you go in there, nobody believes you that the Blessed Mother is appearing to you." Tables of men and priests and people that would say "Well people don't believe the Blue Books." Look at how the Blue Book has changed your life. 

    It has called upon my faith and your faith to give yourself as you have over these ten years and we may not have done it as perfectly as we wished. But did we do anything our whole life as perfectly as we wished? When God was teaching me the lessons to help prepare me for this journey, I remember lots of times, I just did not want to take the way to learn the lesson because it hurt so much. But they were lessons that God gave that gave me the strength to be able to do this. And there were lessons that God gave to each and every person in this Church to give them the strength and the people at the Florida site and all those that are listening. 

    And today I come to you 10 years later. And I'm not in the back of the Holy Spirit Center with the statue of the Sorrowful Mother that you may not see that is appearing to me. And we hadn't gone any where but out of that corner when we went to our cars. And with the strong voice that came out of me that said that "You are the apostles that will go into the world, that will take My light to the long ends of the earth." We did that. 

    For six and one-half years we sent that Priestly Newsletter almost 6 times each year to far corners of the earth. We sent the Priestly Newsletter Book II to 85,000 priests, the last mailing we did after 8 years of mailing things. We sent it almost 90,000 priests with Fr. Carter's Spirituality Handbook which is a real gem because it's a synopsis of the spiritual life from a holy Jesuit doctor priest who wrote 18 books and worked his whole life trying to write a synopsis of the spiritual life. And he wrote 3, that one, the 20 page newsletter and the book Tell My People that Jesus and Mary gave to him. 

    I ask you today and for those who stay through the rest of this retreat — to take the commitment that you have made to your heart. To beg God for the grace to help you to stay united to the Mass and to pray for us, to pray the prayers everyday if you can because you are the core. It is the grace that God will grant that will help us save that one soul. It could be my son or my daughter or your son or your daughter or one of your grandchildren or mine. What would that mean to us? For all eternity that they went to heaven or they went to hell. Think of that. 

    And then think of Mary when she appeared to me every day for 14 months, begging me to reach her children, begging all of us when she appeared to all of us for 7 years. I hear the voice of Mary. I hear it every time I did the joyful mysteries and they were not joyful when she got to the fifth mystery for she lamented about her children that were lost. And I would cry over at Immaculata because I didn't know how to get the School Rosary Program in the schools. 

    Jesus does not want you to think of this Movement as my Movement. Jesus does not want you to be prideful or jealous of me for delivering the message which has affected so many souls of the earth and help to lead them to heaven. Jesus wants you to pray with me that we all answer the call He has given to us. 

    Look at the Apostles. He called them very carefully one by one, Peter the rock. And I was listening to a tape by Bishop Sheen and he was talking about Peter and he said that when he went to school there was a skinny boy that looked like a wind would blow him away. And they called him Hercules. And he said Peter was anything but a rock. That's how we are, we bounce back and forth, we're imperfect, we don't do it all right. 

    But the important thing is, is that today, that we ask God to give us the grace to do His will, to not be tempted by the division that satan wants to create to stop a big advancement from happening. To realize that sin is real and that if we sin, God knows that we will sin, it is the fact that we lie to ourselves and to others. It is to be humble and to move out of that sin, to not give into the temptation, to look at the fact that whether you do this help or you don't do this help can affect so many souls. 

    Sometimes I feel like I am screaming at the top of my lungs because of the intensity within me from seeing Mary appear to me  every day for 14 months. Or for Mary and Jesus speak as He did yesterday for 2 hours and I write that on a piece of paper and I look at it and it doesn't seem like much. 

    But I know that this retreat is very important to God, and how we stay united and how we pray, telling Him that we are sorry for our sins, that we are sorry for the sins of the people of this earth, that we are begging for mercy, that we're asking Him to help us with the newsletter and Fr. Lou and Cathy and all the people that help us get it out, Sycamore Printing, the people that don't go to Mass every day. 

    God has told us how to do everything to get to this point and look at how beautiful it all is. Indeed it is beautiful. God we thank You and we love You and we pray for the grace for our vocation and we pray for the priests, the Church and the world. This is not to make you run out of here and say that I am putting pressure on you. This is for you to hear in your heart that God has called you. And in the capacity that He has called you for you to serve, not more not less. That doesn't mean that you do it all, that means that you do it exactly the way that God wants you to. People that have a full time job can't do everything. But you can offer up what you're doing at work united to the Mass. And all of us can be united as a strong body praying for the intentions of the Shepherds of Christ to help get this newsletter out there. We need your prayers, your commitment, your love. 

    Jesus hung on the cross and when it didn't feel good He didn't get down and walk away. When He hung on the cross, He hung there no matter how it felt, no matter how bad the pain was, and the thief said to him "Get down and save yourself." And Jesus hung there and He saw my face and your face and the face of our grandkids and our husbands, our son-in-law, He saw them all. And He said "There is the soul I love and want with Me for all eternity." 

    And when Mary delivered the message to me it was the cry for her children that were falling into hell like rain she said. So Mary Elpers may work, like I don't know how she ends up doing it with the rosaries and I know she's getting a lot of help from a lot of people in Southern Indiana. But that's what Mary asked for when she appeared to me 500 times. It might be a little thing. It might be $25 that you can send to help us for the rosary beads or it might be your prayer at work all day when it's unusually hard for you. And you know that suffering is a big thing to help to bring down grace. And this is not talking about suffering just for the sake of suffering, it's suffering that God allows us to undergo. Not letting somebody abuse us or do stuff that isn't God's will. 

    It's about doing God's will. It's about doing God's will and looking at that picture of Jesus on the cross and remembering this, when it hurt and when His head was crowned with thorns, when the blood ran into His eyes and His ears, He did the Father's will. When we celebrate the Christmas dinner and we're around maybe with all our families and we feel our heart is swelling with such joy and we know that it's good, it's the Father's will. But then the next day, when we have to do something hard, it may be the Father's will too. 

    And I said to Father before Mass, I said, "You know this is how it is one day I said the thing for me is doing God's will and I can't measure it by how I am feeling because sometimes God asks me to do some things that are really hard and they don't feel too good." And he says "Well", he says, "It's like a marriage, some days it's different, harder than others." And that's exactly it. We are the spouse of Christ. And in the suffering many times there is joy because we know that in the suffering great things are accomplished. But they take suffering.

    And He hung to His death on the cross. He hung there and as Fr. Carter would say "He knew us by name." Amen.

end of first part of August 13, 2004 talk

In the middle Rita moved to the piano. 

This is the second part of that talk.

Note again this was deliver from Jesus at the same time as the devastating hurricane in Florida going to Clearwater and then being averted. Joe Lee said she sounded like the hurricane.

When I transcribed it from the tape it seemed she didn't take a breath. This is one of the loudest, forceful rosaries I have ever transcribed. Doris

August 13, 2004 Rosary

in China, Indiana

Divine Mercy

Part of the Sorrowful Rosary Aves

Song: Were You There When They Crucified My Lord

Song: Song From Jesus

Song: The Rosary Song

Messenger:          Jesus wants us to read a little bit of this 
                        message anyway. The message that I got 
                        yesterday and today is really an important 
                        message for all of us. And if you can try to 
                        study those messages it would help us.

From August 13, 2004 Daily Message

Messenger:        The priest is called by God.

                            Christ says
                                "I have chosen you"

                            The priesthood comes from Christ.

August 13, 2004 Talk

Messenger:  Think of all the boys that could be out there today that could have a vocation. And because the stimulation is not there, because the prompting is not there, that they may not even consider becoming a priest. 

    And then think of the shortage of priests and the fact that — like in West Virginia there were 5 parishes — 3 were all under one priest and they just plain closed 2. Think of all the places that I keep going to that I travel and they just don't have weekly Mass. 

    Or the fact that here on Monday they don't have one so they have to go to Batesville and it takes them 3 hours to drive there to get to Mass on Monday. 

    The shortage of priests is closer than we think that it is. And the Movement that God gave to us in 1994 to pray for His priests was an important Movement that may have helped some of this shortage. 

    But just as Our Lady warned when she appeared at Fatima and she said that we must obey what she was telling us and we must pray the rosary. They did not listen to the Queen of Peace and look at how much damage was done by World War II. I remember seeing the video with the bodies thrown on the heaps. It was so awful, all of the destruction and the loss of lives. (The hurricane was going on while I was saying this.)

    God is speaking to the earth. At the beginning of the century and at the end. And God is telling us what to do about the shortage of priests but when we try to tell people they do not want to listen even after Mary appeared all that time on the building. 

    And they crowned Him with a crown of thorns. And it was 10 years ago today that Our Lady appeared to me August the 13th, 1994, she appeared every day then. She appeared to the children at Fatima, August the 13th of 1917. How many years ago was that today, because today is August the 13th, 2004. And yes, they jailed the children and so Our Lady could not appear on that date August 13th as she desired, she then appeared on August the 19th. If I said she appeared on the 13th of 1917, I meant she didn't get to appear cause the children were jailed. The message is coming from God, for God is contacting the earth in these messages but we are not listening. 

    The priesthood comes from Christ. There are boys that are out there that God would like to have to be priests. But there are many things, for the kids today do not even hear about how wonderful it is to be a priest and what a gift it is. And that's why God gives to us the Blue Book writings and the Mass Book and the Priestly Newsletter so that the priest will tell the youth how wonderful it is to be a priest. How they should listen to that calling that God may be giving to them. 

    If they prepared the children of this earth so exactly how to be scientist and business people and sports people, I know when they study for the sports thing, they practice rigorously, day after day after day after day, to bring us the gift of the sports. But what about the Mass and what is needed for our spiritual feeding from our Church? Shouldn't we be telling our youth as avidly as we tell them about how to practice so that they can play a good basketball game, so that they can go out and be a leader, so that they can go and be a business person, a banker or whatever it is. Shouldn't we be telling them about what to do to prepare us so that the Church has Masses? Is it more important that we have bankers in the bank than priests in the churches? Is it more important that we have more actors, that we have more people in the sports field? What is wrong with us and why do we not see? And yet Jesus comes to us quietly in a gentle man like Fr. Carter, 10 years ago, and he says this is what you must do, you must pray for the priests, the Church and the world.

  

From August 13, 2004 Daily Message

Messenger:        Jewish and Pagan priests always offered a
                                sacrifice distinct from
                                himself ––
                                a sheep, etc.

                            Our Lord offered Himself.

                            Christ is the Lamb.
  

                        What follows is taken from a tape 
                            by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (this was a conference for priests
                            entitled)

                                    The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
   

                            Archbishop Sheen says
                                Vatican Council says –– the 
                                priest offers the Eucharistic
                                sacrifice of Christ.

August 13, 2004 Talk continues  (Rita)

Messenger:  What an honor that God picks a man to be a priest and that he has the ability to change bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

From August 13, 2004 Daily Message  (ref: Bishop Sheen):

Messenger:        The Eucharistic Sacrifice is
                                offered through the priest
                                who is related first to
                                Christ and then to them. (the people)  

                            Priests are ordained to offer a
                                sacrifice.

August 13, 2004 Talk continues  (Rita)

Messenger:  Think of that, all the things that priests are thrown into today, the workings in the parishes, etc., etc. But God gives them this great gift of being able to celebrate Mass. How many of our priests do we want to go on vacation from saying daily Mass? Bishop Sheen said "What about the priests that go on vacation and don't celebrate daily Mass?" Should a priest ever go one day if he can help it and not celebrate Mass? Let us pray more fervently than ever before all through the day as we unite to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for our priests, for the Church and the world.

From August 13, 2004 Daily Message  (ref: Bishop Sheen):

Messenger:        Let us go through that sacrifice.
                            What is the Mass?

                            The Mass is a drama –– not a
                                tragedy because there
                                is a resurrection.
  

August 13, 2004 Talk continues  (Rita)

Messenger:  Out of going to Mass and participating we become more deeply united and one in Him. We share more deeply in His life. 

    God went to the cross and He suffered. But look at the gift that we have from His suffering.

From August 13, 2004 Daily Message  (ref: Bishop Sheen):

Messenger:        Second long rehearsals
                                choosing of characters and types
                                opening night and
                                road companies.

                            The Drama, the Mass was conceived in the
                                mind of the Eternal Dramatist
                                for the Lamb was slain
                                from the beginning of the
                                world.

August 13, 2004 Talk continues  (Rita)

Messenger:  The Lamb of God, the one that came and gave Himself, that shed His blood for our sins. And the message yesterday talks about this. It says in Genesis that when Adam and Eve sinned that God made for them skins to clothed them. It said that the sacrifice is — that God is doing something and there is that shedding of blood in the sacrifice. Like with Adam and Eve God clothed them with skins. Archbishop Sheen says that there had to have been that shedding of blood for them to be clothed with the skins. Also in that sacrifice we see that God gave to them, clothed them with these skins from animals which were sacrificed or whatever, they shed their blood. But the thing of it was, is Adam and Eve were the ones that sinned. 

    And there was a little story in the writing yesterday and it talked about a little boy who went to school and he cheated. And so the head of the school came and he said, "Well this little boy cheated." " So", he says, "He's going to have to be expelled." And his brother came in and his brother said "Oh please don't expel my little brother, expel me instead." 

    And that's what we see with Christ. Christ is the sinless one. We are the sinners. The sacrifice that He gives to us is Himself and in that offering He gives Himself for us. It is because we are the sinners. Adam and Eve sinned and He clothed them with the skins of animals. In a sacrifice God does something and then there is the shedding of blood. And a lot of times the sacrifice is because it is not the person that sinned but it is someone else that is the sacrifice, like a lamb, like Jesus is the lamb sacrificed for our sins.

 

From August 13, 2004 Daily Message  (ref: Bishop Sheen):

Messenger:        Then there were the types,
                                the rehearsals, the choosing
                                of characters, the paschal
                                lamb, the serpent and
                                the many other instances
                                and prototypes of sacrifice
                                in the old testament.

                            And the opening night, the last supper
                                was looked forward to the cross.

                            (Archbishop Sheen is talking to priests at this conference.)

                            And then the Lord sending out His
                                road companies, which we are, –– 
                                        Do this in memory of Me. (talking to the priests)

                            Same action, same words, same
                                drama, only different characters pronouncing
                                the lines.

                          (end of talk Bishop Sheen)

August 13, 2004 Talk continues  (Rita)

Messenger:  What an awesome thought that the priest can change bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Jesus. 

    What an awesome thought that the Son of God came to this earth, that He put on the body of a man and that He gave Himself to His death on the cross that we would share in His life.

From August 13, 2004 Daily Message

Messenger:        We offer ourselves
                                under the form of
                                bread and wine.

                            These substances represent
                                unity ––
                                they are used for nutrition.

August 13, 2004 Talk continues

Messenger:  But although I speak of these things in words in which it may help us to understand more the idea of sacrifice and how much God loves us that He gives Himself as He did on the cross for love of us. And that today He gives us the priests and that He gives us the Mass. 

    Although I may speak of this, it is nothing as the knowledge that I possess from the ecstasies and the union from going to the Eucharist and sharing most intimately with the Divine God. 

    From the moment many of us received the Blue Books and we started praying more before the Blessed Sacrament, we received tremendous grace from God who has drawn us into a most intimate union with Him, like a husband and a wife knows each other from living with each other. 

    We receive special knowledge within our heart and our soul from going to the Eucharist. Not a bookish kind of knowledge but a knowledge of knowing God deep within our soul from attending Mass, from His outpouring of His life within us, from the sharing of Himself when He gives Himself to us in the Eucharist. 

    What a gift that the Divine God comes to this earth, that He gives Himself as a sacrifice to His death on the cross for us sinners, that He gives us a sharing in His life and that He remains with us today through the hands of a priest. The grace that God outpours through the Eucharist is so much grace and the devil knows this. And it is the devil that is the enemy. It is that poisonous bite of the serpent. 

    And in yesterday's message it talked about Moses and how God told him to make the brass serpent and to hang him on a tree. And when people looked on him that were bitten by the poisonous serpent then they would be healed. 

    And we look at Jesus, as we look at the picture of Him hung on the tree, that He asked us to look at today, and we think of how God gave Himself for us, and in knowing how God loves us and gazing upon His picture with love, recognizing Jesus as Savior, the Son of God, we too can be healed, we too can be saved.

    I haven't forgot about the rosary. Jesus wanted me to read this because it is so important out of this retreat to see the focus once again as we talked about before and is in the Mass Book. The focus which is for us to be these intercessors united to the Mass all through the day. 

    The message I received yesterday does not display the intensity to which God spoke to me and how He truly is calling us to pray for the souls of this earth. 

    Think of our own children and grandchildren and how it would be to think that one of those may be lost. Then think of Mary because she appeared to me over 500 times asking me to try to do all that I could to help that her children would not go to hell. But it wasn't to me, the message was given to  you. You are the Shepherds of Christ called by Jesus and Mary to spread this mission to the ends of the earth. And that is what has happened from the time she first appeared and we sat in that little chapel, look at how far it has gone. And it's only at the beginning. 

    But if you say no or lack the enthusiasm or commitment that God is asking of you then it will not do what it is to do. For He needs all of us, He needs all of us to pray hard for our vocation, to pray to be intercessors, to unite to the Mass, to try to understand the messages that we can be better intercessors, that we can offer our lives — offer our lives. Can we do any less? Think of Jesus, the Son of God, who comes to this earth and He gave His life, beaten, crowned with thorns, His body maimed because of His love for us, that is what Jesus says. Can we not offer united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for the souls, the precious souls that He died for? It could make the difference to one soul, one soul that would be in heaven for all eternity. 

    And she came and she appeared everyday for 14 months and the last 9 months she cried out every day about that School Rosary Program. And it may seem like a little thing but to our little efforts God applies His might and much is happening all over the world. We must look at Him and thank Him, praise Him and remain encouraged for a job well done. Even in our imperfections God has magnified our efforts. 

    God has brought us to a place where we are today, an international Movement circulating the Priestly Newsletter as we did for at least 8 years to, it got to 85,000 to 90,000 priests in the world. God, thank You for loving us, calling us and giving us this mission, and for the success that we have received. We have suffered setbacks but look at how we have steadily advanced ahead. 

    Look at this church and the fact that Jesus is here and that we have been here so many years on the 13th, that we have been permitted by the Archdiocese to have the Blessed Sacrament here. Steadily ahead, step by step, we walked sometimes as it felt as if we were walking over rocks and thistles but we still kept going.

    And the message that I give to you today is we will keep going. But the serpent is going to try to stop us. And we must focus on what is the will of God and if God allows us to go through suffering or if we feel divided with someone that we know that we need to work with to accomplish a big task. Then we have to pray for the grace to be able to get over the feelings and continue to do the will of God. For it is in doing the will of God and, step by step, that we will be able to advance. 

    God give us the grace that we need, strengthen our faith and our hope and help us to grow in holiness from this mission from this place today, from your presence, dear God truly present and with us.

Hail Mary
Hail Mary
Hail Mary
Hail Mary
Glory Be

Carrying of the Cross

Hail Mary

The lamb that was slaughtered, Jesus who carried His cross, Jesus who did it for you and me. He knew us by name.

Hail Mary

And He fell to the ground, He fell under the weight of the cross. He carried our sins on the cross. He carried the sins of the world. Dear God forgive us for our sins and the sins that we commit today in not obeying your commandments, outpour Your grace and help the world to be the way that you want it to be. 

Hail Mary
Hail Mary

Words from Jesus in the Stations

The Third Station
JESUS FALLS THE FIRST TIME

Jesus:  The cross was so heavy I could hardly walk. I held on to My cross for greatest love of you and in compliance with the Will of My Father. It became so hard to walk! The cross was so heavy! I fell. I fell and the cross fell on Me. They poked at Me, they struck Me, they demanded I get up. The pain from the instruments they used to poke Me and strike Me was so great! I somehow managed to get up.

When you fall under the weight of your cross, come to My Eucharistic Heart. I am no less present in the tabernacle and in the Eucharist than on the day I carried My cross. I wait with the same love that I had for you when I carried this cross and suffered such agony. Oh, how I love you!

 

Hail Mary

The Fourth Station
JESUS AND MARY MEET

Jesus:  I saw the face of My beautiful Mother. She was weak, her face reddened and full of tears. I saw her tender heart, her love, her anguish, her pain. I saw My dear Mother Mary. My Heart was comforted by the sight of her, but torn by her suffering.

Mary:  As I looked into the eyes of my beloved Son, I saw His love. His head, bleeding and wounded. His body weak. His clothes covered with blood. I looked into His eyes and I saw His love for you. I call out to you today. I appear today with a face full of anguish and tears. I appear to call you back to the love of my Son. See through my eyes, as I peer into His eyes, the love He has for you this day to give of Himself for you. Oh, He loves you so much, my little children. See through my eyes the love of my Son. Oh, how He loves you!

  

Hail Mary
Hail Mary
Hail Mary
Hail Mary
Glory Be

 

The Eleventh Station
THEY NAIL JESUS TO THE CROSS

Messenger:  See Mary as she holds the little Baby Jesus. See her as she washes His tender hands and feet. See her now as she watches as they pound into those same hands and feet the gigantic nails that fix Jesus to the cross.

Mary:  Oh, my dear ones, my heart was torn in my chest as they nailed His hands and feet to the cross. I ask you this day to walk the Passion with me and see through my eyes the love He has for you. He truly was nailed to the cross.

Jesus:  They pounded the nails into My first hand, then they stretched My body and nailed My other hand. The blood poured from these wounds that went totally through My hands. My pain was so immense, but then they nailed My feet! You do not know what pain I suffered, My child. My children, My children, for each one of you I suffered this pain. Oh, how I loved you!

  

Hail Mary

     

Rita moved from before the alter 
and expose Eucharist and then delivered the rest of the talk and prayers from the piano.

Sing: "Today as the mountains still cling to the vine, 
            I'll taste your strawberry, I'll drink your sweet wine 
            A million tomorrows shall all pass away 
            err I forget all the joy that is mine today."

Song: I Rocked Him As a Baby

Messenger:         Hear Mary as she speaks. 
                            Hear Mary as she speaks and she says —

Mary speaks:      My little ones,

                                How I love my precious children, my souls. 
                             And the youth today are suffering and there 
                            are so many divorces and the impurity that 
                            displease your God. 
                                And the souls are dropping into hell like rain. 

                                I appear, I appear, I appear and  I am ignored.

Song: I Rocked Him As a Baby

Mary speaks:      My children,

                                I have called you here that you will pray 
                            as you have never prayed before for your Church 
                            and for the souls that they will not be lost.

Song:  I Rocked Him As a Baby

Messenger:             And so we can look at Jesus as He hangs 
                            on the cross and you can hear this message 
                            that God gives to you. 

                                For He has called us to lead the world into 
                            this special spousal union.

                                And He wants us to recognize Him as our 
                            spouse and He told me to sing this to you. 

Song:  The Wedding Song

Messenger:         Jesus is our spouse, 
                            Jesus is the bridegroom of our soul.

Song:  The Wedding Song

Messenger:             And we have to realize that the priests, 
                            and the brothers and the sisters 
                            and the handmaids and the servants 
                            that give themselves in a special way
                            are helping to heal those wounds
                            that Jesus suffered during His bitter Passion
                            for all the sins of the flesh in the world today.

Song:  The Wedding Song

Messenger:             Jesus our Savior, we love You. 
                            We are most grateful for the gift that You 
                            have given to us. 

                                And He speaks and He says to us —

Jesus speaks:        It is because I love you that I remain with you today 
                            and I gave Myself on the cross. 

                                My people, reach the souls of this earth for I have 
                            called you to reach them with My words of love.

Song:  The Wedding Song

Messenger:             And Mary speaks and she says —

Mary speaks:          My children are starving for love and 
                            Jesus wants them to have this message.

Song:  The Wedding Song

Messenger:             The Son of God who gave Himself to His death 
                            on the cross, that is something to talk about. 
                            Have you heard people scream at the ball games 
                            because somebody makes a homerun or a basket?

                                And the Son of God is truly present and remains 
                            with us today.

Song:  The Wedding Song

Messenger:              Jesus Christ, the Son of God was beaten, 
                            crowned with thorns and He remains with us today. 
                            And the message is this — "There is Love"

                                And the souls are hungry and they are begging 
                            for the message.

                                This is the message that Mary wanted with the 
                            image window in Florida.

                                After all those apparitions and then they knock 
                            her head off. 

                                What is this day about in this retreat?
                                What are the 5ths about? 

                                The biggest blasphemy to knock the head off 
                            the Blessed Mother after God the Father 
                            has allowed her to appear.

Mary's Message
from the Rosary of August 27, 1996

Mary speaks:  I stood beneath the cross of my Son, and my Heart was in such pain for I saw Him before my eyes. I saw Him covered with blood. I saw Him die. My Heart, my children, my Heart to watch my Son, but my Heart, my Heart, how I suffered for my little children of the world that give in to this world and give up the love of my Son. O my little children of light, I give you this message. Carry this light into the darkness for your Mother Mary, for I stood beneath the cross and I cried. I cried for the little ones. I cried for the young ones, the ones that do not care and will lose their souls. How do I make you see for you will not listen to me? What can I do? I come. I appear. I beg. I plead. I give you these gifts from my Son, and you reject me. I do not deliver messages very often anymore for I have been ignored. The message is the same. You do not read the messages I have given to you. Please help me. Help the little children. I appear. I appear. I appear, and I am ignored. I stood beneath the cross, and I cried. I cried, and my Heart was in such anguish for my little children, for I am searching for them this day as I searched for the Child Jesus. Please, please help me. I cannot hold back the hand of my Son any longer. I am Mary, your Mother. I ask you to help my children. You are my children of light.

end of Mary's Message, August 27, 1996

Glory Be

Sing:  Ave Maria

Sing:  Our Father

Sing: Come and Fill Your Lambs

      

August 13, 2004 Talk continues

Messenger:  And as we say these Hail Marys let us think of God who came to this earth and gave Himself to His death on the cross. And every time that we've got a suffering that we know it's God's will that we undergo, let us pray for the grace to be able to think He didn't come down from the cross. That's the thing. 

    I hope I don't suffer tomorrow for saying this. I hate this but whatever it is, it is. When God gives us a suffering, no matter how hard it is, that's how we take it. If we know it's God's will that we have to endure something and a lot of times it's to get some work done that God's asking us to do. And I'm not telling you to push yourself and to do work that God is not asking you to do or to do something that's not God's will.

    But the devil is there when you got to do something that's real important and he can almost make you feel that you can't work with somebody else or whatever the pain is, I don't know. It can be being at the site and just being tired. And here comes some person that's really a person God's called to do a lot of work, and you just get a seat, your just going to sit there and do nothing. Oh I don't care or go look at the computer and read your e-mail. I mean you' are in there to do this. 

    I remember the car dealership during the recessions. And I mean it was tough. And when somebody came in there you sold them a car, that's how it was. It was either that or you were going to go out of business, like 11 out of 15 places would go out of business during the recession. 

    So we got these messages from God, these messages. Why did God choose the site to have the Blessed Mother appear on the building? With the enthusiasm of knowing that God gave Himself to His death on the cross, we have a message to deliver to the person that God sends our way that He loves them. If you are on the phone there should be enthusiasm because God has called us to this mission. 

    And the proof in the pudding is the fact that the Blessed Mother appeared for 7 years. This no ho-hum little job, this is a job to tell the world that Jesus loves them. 

    

February 5, 2004

   

April 5, 2004

         

August 13, 2004 Talk continues

Messenger:  And Jesus gave us Mary on the building and His face on the building to help our own waivering faith. He's taking us down that road of saintliness more and more because you can tell in your own life since her head got knocked off and since Fr. Carter died, He keeps drawing you closer and closer to Himself and you let go of more and more things or you understand suffering a little better or whatever it is. 

    But some of us can be like a kicking mule. Where we are still holding on to something and I can't quite figure out what it is. Is it the disposition or is it like the three classes of men that Ignatius talks about where the person puts the humpf in there. When the Blessed Mother appeared to me 500 times I got the humpf in there to say that we got to get the rosaries in schools. 

    And if nothing comes out of this today but a bunch of people that go out and realize that the message is the message God gives to us. The message of the Shepherds of Christ is to help in the renewal of the world. If I get louder and stronger and you get quieter and more laid back what's going to happen when I die? Fr. Carter died. That's not the idea. The idea is to deliver the message. 

    Let our hearts be joined in the deepest love as we go to the Heart of Jesus and pray for our vocation for this mission. Because God has picked us and the proof in the pudding is the Virgin Mary on that building. Pray with this fervor within your heart. Take the suffering that you know that you have been asked to endure and make it work for this mission. 

    What if Fr. Carter when he was dying of cancer those last three months let all that suffering just fssssh. We got 250,000 rosaries in the school but it was because he knew discipline. He knew how to make his suffering work. 

    First of all, we have to look at St. Ignatius Spiritual Exercises and we have to say to ourselves what is God telling us to do. First of all, that man is created for the honor and glory of God. Once we've got that embedded in our brains that we're not doing this stuff for our own vain glory, we're on our way down a new road that's a good one. 

    Then at every retreat we look at ourselves, we pray for the grace that God shows us more our imperfections, that God helps us to deal more lovingly with one another, that we don't play games on our partners and the people we got to work with, that we keep going in humility and docility and asking God to mold us as the potter in the way that we need to be molded to do this mission because I'm telling you I'm now 58. That might not sound too old but my mom died when she was 48. This life is promised to no man. And if that burning desire to one with Him is in our hearts, our vision is always there and in the sweetness and love for us Our Lord may reach right down and take us up there at any time. 

God wants an order, the Shepherds of Christ order. And it's not going to come out of me becoming more dramatic and you getting less dramatic. It's going to come out of a consumption within your soul to take the vocation that God has given to you to help get the rosaries in the schools, to pray more fervently all through the day as you unite what you do to the Mass. A lot of our problems is, and I've said to myself, "Would God put Mary back on the building?"

God wants us to be loving, 
God wants us to be like saints, 
God wants us to work more and more in that union with one another where we are more perfected in doing God's will in every relationship and that is not going to happen, I'm telling you, 
brothers is what I hear in my mind from God,
that is not going to happen unless we pray for His grace for ourselves, grace to be the way God wants, 
more identified with Him in every moment.

I didn't call you to this.
Jesus called you to this.
Jesus called you to be a saint,.
Jesus called all of us to reach the ends 
of the earth with this mission.

If you get a calling that you feel 
that you are suppose to do something 
and you don't really end up doing it, 
getting upset with me is not going to help nothing.

It's just going to make it harder on me
and you're just going to keep getting the same inkling in your heart 
that the Lord is telling you to do something 
until finally you do it or you just I don't know. 

    Life is going to be the simplest for all of us when we progress more deeply in this spiritual realm of identifying with Him exactly the way He wants. 

    Ignatius has it so cool with the 3 classes of men, I mean that is exactly it. How is the attitude, the old bagger that takes the food and throws it at the people.

    Or the person that, I see Kathleen, she'll go up to these kids and she will say, "What's your name, how are you" and she'll bring a smile to their face but that's the love that's in her heart. She works on that love. And I'm not putting Kathleen on a pedestal and saying Kathleen is perfect. Kathleen is living the life that God wants her to live. 

    And that's not saying that you aren't doing it because I can go through this church and pick each and every one of the people in here and they are holy. I am here as a messenger to help us, to be able to reach more souls with this mission. And we will do that as we advance more spiritually. It's not like black or white, so if we get, something Bishop Sheen said today, "If you think you are in the same place that you were a year ago, you're behind." 

    Because if we're living we're always growing. We should be a lot further ahead in the spiritual life than we were last year. I think we had a few land marks that helped us to move ahead. But we are living to advance more deeply in the spiritual life and what that takes. One thing is, is it takes the truth. That other thing that I got yesterday was really good. It's like we're all sinners, we're all imperfect. And the way the world is today, that the world is thinking that, you know, a lot people think that sin is a thing of the past. Then we look at the ten commandments and then we see — well are they obeying the commandments out there. 

    And then we see — You see this thing with God, so God comes, the Son of God, He's sinless and He dies on the cross for the souls. Now you're being asked to do the same thing. (Rita got really, really loud here like the hurricane that was advancing at the same time she was speaking headed for Clearwater that miraculously turned.) You're being asked to pray as an intercessor, unite to the Mass because of your brothers that you love like Christ loved. We unite to that sacrifice, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, to help to bring down the grace for our brothers that we love. There's that same — what was that word John — John, are you awake — what was the word — how do you say it — vicarious — that's what it is.

    But it's, it's the little story of the kid that went to school and he cheated and they were going to expel him and then the brother comes in and then the brother says, "Oh don't expel my little brother, I'll take it. "

    That's what we're doing in this intercession that we're doing, we are seeing ourselves as intercessors. We are seeing our own sins but we are also seeing a lot of people that aren't obeying the commandments and we are uniting to Jesus in the Mass and offering ourselves, holy.

Did I ever finish the last mystery? 

I am just filled up, I'm filled up because it started yesterday with a 2 hour message from Jesus and that message on the internet is really important. These retreats take us to a different place. The more that we live the retreat, the more that we use the things that Ignatius is giving to us which I believe came from the Blessed Mother, the more we grow in the spiritual life and God is calling that of us. 

    We can't handle this stuff that he's giving to us unless we advance more deeply, to tow the mark, to realize how God hung on the cross and He didn't get off. To realize the joy of suffering, to say yes to what God has given to us, to be brothers in this mission because Christ is our brother and has called us to help to be intercessors for the precious souls He gave His life for. Just think of that, the loss of one soul. Doesn't that make you want to cry?

    We can get the attitude that every body that dies is going to heaven. I mean, we are down here for this purpose — to serve, to love God, to keep the commandments. 

    You have been called to be a Shepherds of Christ member is some way, shape or form or you wouldn't be here. Live your life more deeply united to the Mass and help me do what God has called us to do. With all your heart pray for this vocation and for the grace to advance more at every moment in the spiritual life because He has really called us to do things that are hard. 

    And the world will not understand what we are doing. The world says you're suffering, you take a pill. Jesus is saying look at me hanging on the cross, through the death there is the resurrection. And that is not saying that you go out put yourself a hair shirt on. That's saying that when you don't want to make up with Suzie Q. because she just really rubs you the wrong way, well probably the devil was in there doing that, you got to say, but God I do it for you. And that's not saying not to say something when something has to be said. God help me to do it right. Amen.

Hail Mary

    And in the beauty of this piece that Our Lord ask me to play and in the words of our Holy Father that tells us this. See the thing of it is, is in the world today, you're not allowed to make a mistake. Your feet are not allowed to smell, you're not allowed to do something stupid. But the thing of it is, it's against our human nature, we're imperfect. We make the mistakes then we say we're sorry. If you're not allowed to be imperfect then we're going to have a problem every minute. The peace comes in living to love and serve Him, and in docility in recognizing our faults.

Sing: Be Not Afraid... Messenger:  Look at the barrenness of Abraham, the barrenness of Elizabeth, the barrenness as it seems of our world today and yet God shows us how the fruit was brought forth. In the end the Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign and there will be people living according to God's will. Barrenness.

Sing: Be Not Afraid... Messenger:  He's given us His face.

Messenger:    That says it all doesn't it? "Come follow Me and I will give you rest." Amen. Please read the messages from today and stay united because I can't do what He's asking me to do without you, that's all I got to say. Amen.

Fr. Carter had a dream

Climb Every Mountain

From August 6, 2004

Jesus speaks:            I have called for 24 hour
                               adoration in China, Indiana.

                                (1) to pray for the priests, the
                                        Church and the world.

                                (2) to pray for the Priestly Newsletter
                                        and all involved.

                                (3) Always to pray Friday
                                        12:00 - 3:00

                                (4) Pray for little peoples books

                                (5) Rosary Program

                                (6) Retreats in China and 5ths
                                        and priests who help us.

                                (7) Internet Ministry and all ministries

                                (8) All Shepherds of Christ
                                        needs including leaders,
                                        servants, handmaids and apostles.

                                (9) Special Intentions

                              (10) Florida and funds

                                I call you to prayer ––
                                    Servants, handmaids and apostles

                                    a) 6:20 prayers
                                    b) daily Mass and adoration
                                    c) pray hourly

Retreats are held monthly.

Click to see the China Church live

and all the candles burning

for your intentions.

                                Light a candle in China.

                                We will put your prayer intention
                                    before the altar.

                                Call Morrow  1-888-211-3041

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