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August 20, 2002

August 21st Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 5 Period II.
The Novena Rosary Mystery
for August 21st is Sorrowful.

   

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Letters

  
August 4, 2002

Dear Mr. Weickert,

I've just opened your letter attached to a copy of Father Edward Carter's Spirituality Newsletters 2, which you sent off on Divine Mercy Sunday. I found it deeply moving, because of the deep love for the Church and its priests speaking through it, but of whom are so sorely tested these days, not only in your country. You will recall, that all the priests in my diocese, as well as a few houses of women religious, received a copy of that most valuable book. I sent an acknowledgement of receipt each time by e-mail.

Please pray that an idea which struck me while I read your letter may bear fruit. I want to encourage one of our priests, who is the director of our diocesan Marian Shrine, to take up the cause of The Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart and spread it in our diocese and beyond. Providence has already prepared him so that he should have no difficulty to make their spirituality his own; on the contrary.

With kindest regards and prayerful good wishes for your wonderful apostolate,

Fraternally yours in the Lord,

Bishop of _______

  


  

9 August 2002

Dear Mr. Wickert,

The Peace of Christ!

Archbishop _____________ wishes to acknowledge receipt of your letters dated 7 April 2002 and 16 July 2002 and to thank you for the reading materials regarding the Shepherds of Christ Ministries.

In union of prayers, we remain

Sincerely in Christ Jesus,

_________________
Private Secretary to the Archbishop

  


      

August 20, 2002

Messenger:        Our Lord told me to go to a funeral.

                            A funeral is a big thing, all of a sudden
                                someone is gone from this life here
                                below.       

                            While the people of the earth go on with
                                their busy lives there is the quiet pause
                                of all those attending the funeral.

                            I don't really understand why more
                                people do not understand the
                                temporariness of this life.

                            It is so apparent when we go to a funeral.
                                People should just attend 
                                a funeral Mass once in a while
                                so they think about the temporariness
                                of this life.

                            We have so many busy things to do here in 
                                our lives, but we are not going to be
                                on this earth forever.

   

  

  

August 20, 2002 message continues

Messenger:        Our life on earth is only temporary.

                            I don't understand why more people
                                don't help us do what Mary and 
                                Jesus are asking us to do.

                            The people that went to work
                                September 11, 2001, thought they
                                would be going about their
                                day in the same way
                                after that day but
                                their life was changed.

                            My very dear friends gave me
                                flowers for my birthday and
                                I really loved them, but
                                soon they withered and died.
                                Now no matter how beautiful
                                they were and no matter how
                                much pleasure they gave 
                                me, they died.

                            Jesus came to the earth and Jesus died on
                                the cross.

                            Our life can be lived in so many different
                                ways.

                            I see the passing days of the little
                                children I once cared for, my
                                children. It used to be they needed
                                me every moment. I remember
                                with four children I felt I hardly
                                had any time to myself. I always
                                had some one to help.

                                My last son is going to college
                                    at the end of this week.
                                I have been home for 
                                    32 years with children.
                                They have lives of their
                                    own.
                                I look at little ones and
                                    grandchildren and they
                                    cling to their mothers,
                                    they nurse, they are so
                                    dependent on their parents.

                            It is so beautiful to see how Jesus
                                came to the earth and showed
                                us how to live.

                            I do not know what I would do if
                                I didn't pray my rosary.
                                My life is modeled after
                                    Jesus.
                                Some days I feel I am in 
                                    the garden suffering for souls,
                                    I live the mysteries of the 
                                    rosary in my life. I live
                                    the death and resurrection
                                    all day, all through the day.

   

  

August 20, 2002 message continues

Messenger:        Some of our suffering may be tremendous,
                                God shows us that we are to suffer
                                here below. If we meditate on
                                the sorrowful mysteries of 
                                the life of Christ, we see
                                how He suffered.

                            Look at all Christ did in 33 
                                years and he lived a 
                                quiet life for 30 years.

                            Sometimes God calls us to work
                                very hard to do something for 
                                a greater good and it seems
                                like a suffering, but we
                                know God is telling us to do
                                it, so we unite with Him deeply
                                and rely on His Might.

                            We must stop every day and smell
                                the roses.
                            We need to be so united with Jesus
                                in all we do.
   
                                We need to rely on His Might.
                            Every second, every moment to
                                be one with Him.
                            I must rely on His Might.
                            My life is very important to
                                help in the work of redemption.

                            The devil will try to get us to focus on
                                our imperfections. When we 
                                sin, we must tell God we 
                                are sorry, when we hurt others
                                or what ever we do. Mortal sins
                                need to be confessed in confession
                                for Catholics.
                            When we go to every Mass in the 
                                beginning of the Mass, we tell God
                                we are sorry for our sins,
                                then we give ourselves
                                so completely and pray
                                for ourselves and our families
                                and the souls of the earth
                                and all our needs.

                            We pray the Lamb of God at
                                Mass and ask God
                                to have mercy on us.

                            We must realize our life here
                                is so short and we need to 
                                pray and offer up our
                                lives to God as a sacrifice
                                to help bring down grace for souls.

                            The devil doesn't want us to do this.

                            Sometimes God allows us to suffer
                                so much, we need to realize
                                this and not give into 
                                satan.

                                We need to offer up our suffering.

                                 Suffering is a big part of life.

                                God allows many people to
                                    suffer tremendously.

                            This is not saying that a person
                                who is sick should not
                                go to the doctors for help,
                                or an abused person should
                                endure another's abuse,
                                this is to say that many
                                of us have to suffer
                                everyday in very many
                                ways in our lives in
                                dealing with each other.

                            Our loved ones die and 
                                this can be deep suffering.

                            We may not have the things
                                we desire, others may
                                say things that offend us
                                and not even know it and
                                then we suffer.

                            We may love and give and give
                                to someone and they don't
                                appreciate us, it seems and
                                we suffer.

                            All these are forms of suffering.

                            I suffer so much because I
                                realize how many people in
                                the world don't believe in Jesus.

                            I suffer so much because
                                of the sin in the world.

                            I suffer because I want
                                the souls of this earth
                                to go to heaven.

                            I suffer because I want to be 
                                with Jesus so much (someday
   
                                     in heaven) in the
                                fullness of life.

                            I suffer because I love so deeply
                                and want oneness on this
                                earth.

                            I want oneness in families,
                                I want oneness amongst
                                the people of the earth.
                            I want people to appreciate Jesus in the Eucharist.
                            I want people to appreciate the gift given in our 
                                Church and the priest.

                           Suffering is a part of life.

                            Sometimes God just allows us
                                to suffer tremendously.

                            We can't always do what we want,
                                sometimes we suffer because
                                we have to work really hard
                                doing His will.

                            Sometimes we look forward to things
                                and they never happen as we 
                                anticipated and we suffer.

                            Sometimes it looks like things are
                                different than they are to other people
                                and people think we are having great fun
                                when in fact we can be suffering
                                greatly.

                            The bottom line is, we must live
                                to do God's will and realize
                                in the death there is the 
                                resurrection. Jesus shows
                                us this.

   

    

   

August 20, 2002 message continues

Messenger:        I remember at the end of the funeral they
                                sang the song
                                "Receive his soul and present
                                    him to God."

                            Our life here is so temporary.

                            What kind of seeds did we plant yesterday?

                            What kind of seeds will we plant today?

                            God gives us a free will.

                            We see Him carrying His cross

  

  

August 20, 2002 message continues

Messenger:           We see the agony of the garden

  

  

August 20, 2002 message continues

Messenger:           We see the death and

                                the resurrection and

                                His ascension into heaven

   

         

  

August 20, 2002 message continues

Messenger:        "Sunrise, sunset—swiftly goes the days"

                            I love the words to that song

                            "Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers

                                blossoming even as we gaze"

                            The waves of the ocean go in and

                                come out.

     

   

August 20, 2002 message continues

Messenger:          Today we may have to put our "nose to
                                the grindstone" and do a very
                                difficult task and we just

                                know how hard it can be
                                mentally or physically, but

                                every day we are here is very
                                important and our lives are
                                indeed, very, very short,

                                very short indeed.

                            Oh God grant us the courage to live as
                                you desire, help us to live

                                every day for You, for Your
                                honor and glory.

                            "Sunrise, Sunset, Swiftly goes the days"
                                words from song Sunrise, Sunset

                            "The seeds were sown by other hands
                                than ours"

                                from song Come with me into the Fields

                            Fr. Carter's body was buried in the
                                Jesuit cemetery.

                            My mom died when I was five.

                            My Father-in-law died at 54.

                            I heard of a young nurse that died at 22.

                            The lady at the hospital died at 35.

                            I remember a funeral Fr. Mike did of
                                a 3 year old baby.

                            Our life here is so temporary.
                            We are on a journey to another place.

                                

John 11: 25-26

Jesus said:

I am the resurrection.
Anyone who believes in me,
   even though that person dies, will live,
and whoever lives and believes in me
will never die.
Do you believe this?

   
  

John 6: 35-59

Jesus answered them:

I am the bread of life.
No one who comes to me will ever hunger;
no one who believes in me will ever thirst.
But, as I have told you,
you can see me and still you do not believe.
Everyone whom the Father gives me
    will come to me;
I will certainly not reject
anyone who comes to me,
because I have come from heaven,
not to do my own will,
but to do the will of him who sent me.
Now the will of him who sent me
is that I should lose nothing
of all that he has given to me,
but that I should raise it up
    on the last day.
It is my Father’s will
that whoever sees the Son
    and believes in him
should have eternal life,
and that I should raise that person up
    on the last day.

Meanwhile the Jews were complaining to each other about him, because he had said, ‘I am the bread that has come down from heaven.’ They were saying, ‘Surely this is Jesus son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know. How can he now say, “I have come down from heaven?” ’ Jesus said in reply to them, ‘Stop complaining to each other.

‘No one can come to me
unless drawn by the Father who sent me,
and I will raise that person up
    on the last day.
It is written in the prophets:
They will all be taught by God;
everyone who has listened to the Father,
and learnt from him,
comes to me.
Not that anybody has seen the Father,
except him who has his being from God:
he has seen the Father.
In all truth I tell you,
everyone who believes has eternal life.
I am the bread of life.
Your fathers ate manna in the desert
and they are dead;
but this is the bread
    which comes down from heaven,
so that a person may eat it and not die.
I am the living bread
    which has come down from heaven.
Anyone who eats this bread 
    will live for ever;
and the bread that I shall give
is my flesh, for the life of the world.’

Then the Jews started arguing among themselves, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ Jesus replied to them:

In all truth I tell you,
if you do not eat
    the flesh of the Son of man
and drink his blood,
you have no life in you.
Anyone who does eat my flesh
    and drink my blood
has eternal life,
and I shall raise that person up
    on the last day.
For my flesh is real food
and my blood is real drink.
Whoever eats my flesh
    and drinks my blood
lives in me
and I live in that person.
As the living Father sent me
and I draw life from the Father,
so whoever eats me
will also draw life from me.
This is the bread
    which has come down from heaven;
it is not like the bread our ancestors ate:
they are dead,
but anyone who eats this bread
    will live for ever.

This is what he taught at Capernaum in the synagogue.

   
      

August 20, 2002 message continues

Messenger:         I live the mysteries of the rosary every day.

                            I pray all 15 mysteries and more most days.

                            My rosary is a big part of my life.

  

Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary

The
Annunciation

The
Visitation

The
Nativity

The
Presentation

Finding in
the Temple

    

Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary

Agony in the
garden

Scouring
at the pillar

Crowning
with thorns

Carrying
of Cross

The
Crucifixion

    

Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary

The
Resurrection

The
Ascension

Descent of the
Holy Spirit

The
Assumption

The
Coronation

                 

August 20, 2002 message continues

Messenger:           I don't know what people do when suffering
                                if they don't know how to pray.

                            Give your friends these gifts given from
                                God.
  

                                Rosary books

     

     

  
  
                                Blue Books

     

   

                                Rosaries

       

  

August 13, 2002

Dear Rita,

            I just had to write to you, to tell you that you make me cry every morning. I say my rosary every day and then I read a paragraph a day in your book.

            First of all my daughter-in-law gave me your first volume of "God's Blue Book Teachings to Lift You Up" for Christmas that's when I started to cry. Your words are so true to life at least for me. You see I'm seventy-five years old, so I do have an awful lot in my past, that your book talks about me. And I have four daughters they are good girls, but they should read your books too.

            Today I'm reading your Volume 2 an excellent book I'm on page 24 Jesus Will Handle This One.

            I just had to write to you and say I wish I could meet you in person, you must be very special to write these books, because in my heart, when I read them I feel good and I do tell my daughters about them.

            So far I have 
Volume I   Teachings to Lift You Up
Volume II  The Fire of His Love
Volume III Love God, Love One Another
Rosary Meditations for Little People and Elderly
Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary part 1
Rosary Meditations for Parents and Children
Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary part 2

            and I also have
Shepherds of Christ, Spirituality 2 Newsletters
            by Father Edward Carter, S.J.

            Dear Rita, I hope you don't mind, me writing this letter, because you sure make my day when I read your books if you have any more that you're writing please let me know because I will buy them again thank you for making my life easier because of your wonderful books. God must love you to make you write so great.

            One of your many friends,

            Thank you again.

            God Bless You

            Every day.

            __________

    

August 20, 2002 message continues

Messenger:         Please help us spread these books and tapes and
                                rosaries, give them for Christmas presents.

                            Thanks to the Texas ladies who print
                                the books.

                            Oh Jesus help us. Help us to do the will of God.

    
 

Novena to the Infant of Prague
(to be prayed hourly if possible)

 
          O Jesus, who said, "Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you," through the intercession of Mary, Your most holy Mother, I knock, I seek, I ask that my prayer be granted. 

          O Jesus, who said, "All that you ask of the Father in My Name He will grant you," through the intercession of Mary, Your most holy Mother, I humbly and urgently ask Your Father in Your Name that my prayer be granted. 

          O Jesus, who said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My word shall not pass," through the intercession of Mary, Your most holy Mother, I feel confident that my prayer will be granted.

  

August 20, 2002 message continues

Messenger:           Mary wants us to have sheets at the
                                site with the mysteries of the
                                rosary in different languages.

    


    

29th July 2002

Dear Sisters and Brothers in Jesus Christ,

    Cordial Greetings from Tanzania.

Re: Request for the Devotional items. i.e. Rosaries, Statues, etc.

    I am the Catholic Priest working at ____ Parish in ______ Diocese. I was ordained in August 15th, 1996 (on the Solemnity of the Assumption).

    I have been the Member of the Fatima Crusades since 1993. As our Lady herself request at Fatima, I try to spread the true devotion to the Virgin Mary in any place, as I can.

    Due to the lack (insufficient) of the Holy Rosaries or higher price for the common Christians, I fail to meet my goal! So I ask you kindly to send me enough Rosaries (and statues if possible).

    I am the Parish Priest, my flock is around 10,000 and they are very hungry i.e. they want to recite the ANGELIC SALUTATION DAILY! Please come to our help.

    Wish you all the best,

    Yours faithful Marian Priest,

    Fr. ________

  


   

3rd July 2002

Happy feast of St. Thomas.

May the grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ be with you always. Amen.

Dear, I came in contact with your address through the courtesy of a bosom friend. Well, it's all my interest to introduce myself to you and also to build a relationship with you.

    However, as a way of little introduction, My name is Rev. Bro. ________. I'm a Nigerian. I'm a seminarian of the Congregation __________, a noble and a dynamic congregation founded by a Nigerian.

    Besides, previous stories heard about you made me pick much interest in you and in your affairs. Although I haven't seen you facially, but I hope that at the end of the day you will disclose your identity tome for deeper introductions.

    I hopefully and patiently anticipate for your letter as soon as possible.

Your brother in Christ

Rev. Bro. ______

     


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