August 23, 2021

Prayer Service at 1:00 p.m.

Please tune in and pray with is

 

 

Please Pray for Fr. Joe & Bob, Sanja
     

Prayer for Grace for our Country

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

August 21, 2021

 

Mary: My beloved little ones, Your heavenly Father created you in the image and likeness of Jesus.
You must realize your life here is to live planning to return home someday to your heavenly Father and to be united to God eternally in the beatific vision.

Your world can be so selfish. My children God is love. Give love to others because you want to help them to develop and grow as the Father intended. Do not be jealous or envious or angry. Pray to be more and more like Jesus. Focus on your return to your heavenly Father some day and how He wants you while you are here to do His will and help build the Kingdom of God.

Your days here on earth are short. Do not give into selfishness. Give love to others and accept genuine love they give to you. That is love. Giving and receiving. That is love. Focusing on your eternity and helping others to grow by letting them genuinely love you according to the Father’s will.

Satan wants division.
Do not listen to satan, listen to Jesus in the scriptures, obey the 10 commandments. Pray to my Spouse the Holy Spirit, Oh my little ones, some never see how controlling they are by being in charge in relationships by rejecting others' kindness because of pride.

I am the Queen of peace. The Father must be first in your lives. His will for you. Empty yourself of those ways not like God. Be open to the Holy Spirit to guide you.
Give yourself to Jesus' Heart and my Heart spread these prayers Jesus gave to Fr. Carter and the Holy Spirit Novena. Pray your Morning Offering every day.

Jesus loves you so much to give you this Movement Shepherds of Christ. It is a privilege and a calling, my little lost children in a world that is doing so much evil.

This is a message I gave 25 years ago.
 

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

Mary:  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
 

Mary: Listen to me.

Pray, pray, pray. We give you these Rosaries from Our Hearts to teach you about love, the spiritual life to prepare you for the heavenly banquet God wants to give those who love and serve Him.

I am your heavenly Mother,
Queen of heaven and earth.

R. The Queen mounts her throne,
she is so beautiful.

Mary is our Immaculate Mother.

Blue is so peaceful.
Focus on the waters close to Clearwater.

This is a sign and warning because God loves us so much.

Pray the Shepherd of Christ Prayers.

Mary: I am Mary your Mother, I love you my children!!!
   

 

        August 21, 2021

R. God the Father created the world from nothing.
We see the beauty of the earth. God created a beautiful, harmonious, ordered world. God gave to us what we needed to live and be happy but He told Adam and Eve what to do to obey Him.
Adam and Eve rebelled against what He told them.

God gave them so much. When they sinned death entered the world.
Jesus came our Savior so we could go to heaven, but we have to follow God's rule.
Heaven is a reward, promised to those who love and serve the Lord.

Satan tempted Eve in the Garden. There are fallen angels because they said they would not serve God.

Eve listened to the devil (satan) in the Garden.

We were created by the Father.

John 3: 16

For this is how God loved the world:
he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him 
    may not perish
but may have eternal life.
 

R. We were created by the Father and we are to have this goal, to live in love, obey God's will and to one day die and go to our Heavenly Father. The goal to receive the reward Jesus promised us to be eternally happy with God in heaven forever, for those who loved and served the Lord.

God is so good.
God loves us so much and wants intimate relationship with Him.

Jesus came to the earth, sent by the Father and His whole life was focused on doing His will and going back to the Father.

Jesus rose from the dead and He ascended into heaven.
He shows us that we too are to focus on serving the Father's will in all we do and one day to go to the Father forever.

Don’t you love the parable of the prodigal Son?

Jesus ascended into heaven and promised to send the Holy Spirit to us, the Spirit of truth and love.

Jesus at His death emptied Himself for our sins. Jesus is our Savior.

We are to empty ourselves of those ways not like God.
In death we can surrender to go home to our Father in heaven.

We live the pascal mystery of death / resurrection in all we do every day, dying to our selfish ways and being more and more like Jesus.

Think of the Baptism of Jesus, the sky was thrown open and the voice was heard "this is My beloved Son in whom I am well Pleased."
Then at the Transfiguration, the voice of the Father, "This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, Listen to Him.”

When Jesus appeared to me 12 days before Our Lady appeared in Clearwater, He appeared at Holy Cross-Immaculata at the point of death on the cross. I cried it was so awful to see Him, but His mouth moved big and open - like He could not exert Himself that way.

That night on December 5th at my house, 25 years ago He said, He appeared that way because nobody was listening.

Then Mary appeared Our Lady of Clearwater 12 days later on the building in rainbow color.

 

   

Genesis 9: 8-17

    God spoke as follows to Noah and his sons, ‘I am now establishing my covenant with you and with your descendants to come, and with every living creature that was with you: birds, cattle and every wild animal with you; everything that came out of the ark, every living thing on earth. And I shall maintain my covenant with you: that never again shall all living things be destroyed by the waters of a flood, nor shall there ever again be a flood to devastate the earth.’

    ‘And this’, God said, ‘is the sign of the covenant which I now make between myself and you and every living creature with you for all ages to come: I now set my bow in the clouds and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I gather the clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds, I shall recall the covenant between myself and you and every living creature, in a word all living things, and never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all living things. When the bow is in the clouds I shall see it and call to mind the eternal covenant between God and every living creature on earth, that is, all living things.’

    ‘That’, God told Noah, ‘is the sign of the covenant I have established between myself and all living things on earth.’

   

R. I saw Jesus August 20th on the cross at St Gertrude’s.
I saw Him transfigured several times at the beginning of 1996, the year Mary appeared on the building.
I have heard God say when looking at the tabernacle, the crucifix
"This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.”

The Mass is the sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present.
Death/Resurrection.
Grace is outpoured as priests celebrate the Mass all over the world and we unite and offer up all we do in the morning offering -Praying to the Father in the name of Jesus, in the Holy Spirit through the powerful intercession of Mary our heavenly Mother.

 

 

 

   

 

R. Fr. Carter said "it’s not there is too much suffering in the world, but so much is wasted.”

 

Morning Offering

My dear Father, I offer You this day all my prayers, works, joys and sufferings, my every breath, my every heartbeat, my every thought, all my actions, in union with Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world, in the Holy Spirit. I pray the Holy Spirit is with me every second today, enlightening me to do the Will of the Father and filling me with the fire of God's love.

I ask Jesus and Mary to be one in me in all that I do and I unite with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory to pray continually to the Father for these intercessions, in this prayer, for this day.

For myself, I pray for grace-abundant grace, to know and love God more and more and to follow the Will of the Father. I pray to the Holy Spirit to transform me in the heart of Mary to be more and more like Jesus. I pray that I can forever dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. I pray for conversion of all those I hold dear who need conversion. I pray for each member of my family that they will be filled with Your abundant grace to grow in their knowledge and love of God.

I pray for all my friends that they will receive abundant grace to carry out the great plan of the Father, that they will grow forever closer to Jesus' Heart through Mary's heart, that we will all be led by the Holy Spirit to do His work, that we will, together, carry out the plan of the Father as He intends us to, to spread the love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary's heart to this world.

Jesus, I pray for myself so the Holy Spirit descends upon me and opens my heart to Your love so I will grow more and more deeply in union with You. I pray that I do not worry what other people think but try always to please the Father and do His Will. I pray that I may help lead many to Your burning love.

I pray for the following people in particular that they will be filled with the Spirit and grow deeply in their union with You, that they will receive abundant graces to know, love and serve You more. (Include special friends by name...)

I pray for priests the world over, for the success of the Priestly Newsletter, the Chapters and for the finances needed for the Newsletter. I pray for the circulation of the Blue Book messages, rosary meditations and tapes. I pray for all those involved in the publication of these messages.

I pray that You will shower Your abundant graces onto the priests reading the Newsletter the people reading and hearing the Blue Book messages and rosary meditations and all of Fr. Carter's publications.

We pray for the intentions we hold deep within our hearts, for our families and friends, for those requesting our prayers. We pray for children the world over and for the souls in purgatory. We ask God to shower His abundant grace on us and the members of our Shepherds of Christ Chapter so that we may grow more and more in our knowledge and love of God.

We consecrate ourselves to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. We pray for Father Carter, for Father Smith, for Rita Ring, and for John Weickert, for all leaders and helpers in the Shepherds of Christ Movement, for Shepherds of Christ Ministries, and Our Lady of Light Ministry. We pray for all those who are working in these ministries.

We bind ourselves and our children and our friends to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. We place the precious blood of Jesus on ourselves, and all we touch, so that we will be protected from the evil one. We pray to St. Michael to cast the devil into hell.

We love You, God, we love You, we love You. We beg that we may receive the grace to love You more and more deeply. We adore You, we praise You, our beloved Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

   

May 16, 1998 - Prayer to the Father 

My Father,

        With my whole heart I desire to consecrate the whole world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I wish with my whole being for the salvation of souls and that man live according to Thy Holy Will. I pray my Father that we may be one in You and Your Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit that we may intercede to You for this cause.

        It is this burning desire within my soul to spread the consecration to the far ends of the earth, that the cries of Your children are cries of glory and honor and adoration, praising God as their God.

        My Father, at this moment a soul hangs on the edge of death. For all eternity they will go to a place. It is not the plot of this soul as it trods this barren land to decide on the edge of death. You created us that we would grow in our oneness with God, that we would mature more and more in our image and likeness to God.

        And so My Father, I pray with every cell in my body for this earth. In the name of Your Son Jesus I consecrate all the souls of this earth to the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the Holy Spirit in union with the Holy sacrifice of the Mass with all the angels and saints and the souls in Purgatory.

        I beg You Father for mercy.

        I beg You Father for assistance.

        I beg You Father to help us to spread this consecration to the far ends of the earth.

        Please help us. We are helpless little ones coming in the heart of our Mother, bleeding from our wounds and our sins. 

        Your Son, Jesus Christ, shed the last drop of His Blood for the salvation of mankind. We wish to unite in this sacrifice, sacramentally made present in the Mass all over the world at every moment. Help us to make reparation to You for the sins of men. 

        Please my Father, help us. Held in the heart of Mary and the Heart of Jesus we come as the children of Eve to beg for the Reign of the Sacred Heart and the Triumph of Mary's heart. Look upon our love, Your shepherds in the Shepherds of Christ, our sacrifices and devotion to You Our Beloved Father. Come by the means of the Holy Spirit and sanctify us and make us whole, that we are one in Your Son Jesus, praying to You, Father, in the name of Your Son Jesus in the Holy Spirit united with all the angels and saints, in the heart of Mary. We beg for help for special intentions concerning the Movement. We beg for help to reach the Churches to give these prayers of Jesus to them, to reach the schools and the family. Help we cry as poor banished children of Eve. Help us Father to do this work the Good Shepherd has entrusted to us. Help us to be one in You that we act as intercessors to help this world to be turned to God as their God, loving, honoring and adoring Him as the Lord of Host is truly present on His throne. 

        We are Your children Father, we implore You to answer our prayer.

        We love You, we worship You, we adore You, we thank you and we sing from the bottom of our hearts, Holy God we Praise Your Name. Alleluia

   

July 31, 1994

Words of Jesus to Members of Shepherds of Christ Associates:

"My beloved priest-companion, I intend to use the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the movement, Shepherds of Christ Associates, in a powerful way for the renewal of My Church and the world.

"I will use the newsletter and the chapters of Shepherds of Christ Associates as a powerful instrument for spreading devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart.

"I am calling many to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. To all of them I will give great blessings. I will use them as instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy Spirit."

- Message from Jesus to Father Edward J. Carter, S.J., Founder, as given on July 31, 1994,
feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)

  

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A Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

    Let me be a holy sacrifice and unite with God in the sacrament of His greatest love.

    I want to be one in Him in this act of love, where He gives Himself to me and I give myself as a sacrifice to Him. Let me be a holy sacrifice as I become one with Him in this my act of greatest love to Him.

    Let me unite with Him more, that I may more deeply love Him. May I help make reparation to His adorable Heart and the heart of His Mother, Mary. With greatest love, I offer myself to You and pray that You will accept my sacrifice of greatest love. I give myself to You and unite in Your gift of Yourself to me. Come and possess my soul.

    Cleanse me, strengthen me, heal me. Dear Holy Spirit act in the heart of Mary to make me more and more like Jesus.

    Father, I offer this my sacrifice, myself united to Jesus in the Holy Spirit to You. Help me to love God more deeply in this act of my greatest love.

    Give me the grace to grow in my knowledge, love and service of You and for this to be my greatest participation in the Mass. Give me the greatest graces to love You so deeply in this Mass, You who are so worthy of my love.

-Mass Book, December 27, 1995

        Rosary from August 21, 2021

        SOME ROSARY!!!!!! STUDY IT.

Glorious Mysteries

Sing: Glory, Glory, Glory Lord

 

The Resurrection

1. Jesus was always transitioning
    His life back to the Father.

2. We were created by the Father.

3. We are passing over in this life -- to the Father
    forever, we hope, in heaven.

4. Living here the life of resurrection --
    new life.

5. With the sin of Adam and Eve
    death entered the world.

6. Death is our passage way to eternal life.

7. We try to live more and more the will of the Father.

8. As we grow older we are pouring
    our life out in His will.

9. Thy will be done on earth as it is
    in heaven.

10. Jesus emptied Himself on the cross --
        He loved the Father's will --
        He gave Himself.
    Empty-out -- Giving Himself.
    Jesus was always concerned with others.

 

The Ascension

1. Jesus always gave love!

2. Jesus showed us to endure our
    suffering for a positive outcome.

3. Jesus showed us suffering according
    to the Father's will leads to greater life.

4. Jesus showed us dignity and peace
    in suffering.

5. The Jewish people went through
    Egyptian suffering and
    were formed into
    Yahweh's people under Moses.

6. They had closer union with God.

7. Relationship with God is living
    the Commandments.

8. Dying to the ways not like Jesus,
    to live to be more like Jesus.

9. The Church is the earthly and
    visible continuation of
    Jesus and His mission.

10. Acts 1: 6-11

Now having met together, they asked him, 'Lord, has the time come for you to restore the kingdom to Israel?' He replied, 'It is not for you to know times or dates that the Father has decided by his own authority, but you will receive the power of the Holy Spirit which will come on you, and then you will be my witnesses not only in Jerusalem but throughout Judaea and Samaria, and indeed to earth's remotest end.'

As he said this he was lifted up while they looked on, and a cloud took him from their sight. They were still staring into the sky as he went, when suddenly two men in white were standing beside them, and they said, ‘Why are you Galileans standing here looking into the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will come back in the same way as you have seen him go to heaven.’

 

 

The Descent of the Holy Spirit

1. We live Jesus' life, death and resurrection in our lives.

2. Acts 2: 1-4

When Pentecost day came round, they had all met together, when suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of a violent wind which filled the entire house in which they were sitting; and there appeared to them tongues as of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak different languages as the Spirit gave them power to express themselves. 

3. The Church is becoming more as
    the Father wants - passing over --

4. This is under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

5. We live the pascal mystery
        death / resurrection.

6. Romans 6: 3-4

You cannot have forgotten that all of us, when we were baptised into Christ Jesus, were baptised into his death. So by our baptism into his death we were buried with him, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father’s glorious power, we too should begin living a new life.

 7. Baptism is our grace-life,
    our Christ-life, is the life of
    resurrection.

8. We live now His life, death
    and resurrection to have the
    beatific vision in heaven.

9. We live in Him here
    below and this life will be deepened
    in our life in heaven --
    We will have the fullness
    of life in heaven.

10. The Holy Spirit is the soul of the
    Church.

Excerpt from Response to God's Love by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

    ... In reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate mystery. Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden from man in his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us briefly look at this inner life of God.

    The Father, in a perfect act of self-expression, in a perfect act of knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the immanent expression of God's fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise, from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in a perfect act of loving.

    At the destined moment in human history, God's self-expression, the Word, immersed himself into man's world. God's inner self-expression now had also become God's outer self-expression. Consequently, the mystery of God becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us about himself, about his inner life, about his plan of creation and redemption. He tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell within us in the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us their own life through grace. All this he has accomplished and does accomplish through Christ. St. Paul tells us: "I became a minister of this Church through the commission God gave me to preach among you his word in its fullness, that mystery hidden from ages and generations past but now revealed to his holy ones. God has willed to make known to them the glory beyond price which this mystery brings to the Gentiles—the mystery of Christ in you, your hope of glory. This is the Christ we proclaim while we admonish all men and teach them in the full measure of wisdom, hoping to make every man complete in Christ" (Col 1:25-28).

               

The Assumption

1. Death is our final self-emptying.

2. Mary lived the Father's will.

3. Luke 1: 46-55

And Mary said:

My soul proclaims
    the greatness of the Lord
and my spirit rejoices
    in God my Saviour;
because he has looked upon
    the humiliation of his servant.
Yes, from now onwards
    all generations will call me blessed,
for the Almighty
    has done great things for me.
Holy is his name,
and his faithful love extends age after age
    to those who fear him.
He has used the power of his arm,
he has routed the arrogant of heart.
He has pulled down princes
    from their thrones
        and raised high the lowly.
He has filled the starving with good things,
    sent the rich away empty.
He has come to the help
    of Israel his servant,
        mindful of his faithful love
—according to the promise
    he made to our ancestors—
of his mercy to Abraham
    and to his descendants for ever.

4. Mary was taken body and soul
    into heaven.

5. We die to selfishness --
    to grow mystically in God.

6. Everything we do should be
    living to be raised up
    higher -- preparing
    for eternity --

7. Mary loved the Father's will --
    her life was a life
    of giving herself --

8. Look at Mary in her sorrow
    of self-giving on Calvary.

9. Death / Resurrection --
    Passing - over here to the
        heavenly Father.

10. When we allow others to
    love us as God wants
    it is an
    emptying of self for
    relationship and their growth.

Fr. Carter says
"To relate to the other properly
    in selfless love makes me
    die to my selfish self!!"
    There will always, he says,
    be a certain suffering
    in loving during this life.
    He says "I can never be as
    closely united to the love
    one as I desire here below.
    Only in eternal life will this
    wish be fulfilled."

 

The Coronation

1. Mary is crowned Queen of
    heaven and earth!

2. In prayer we die and rise with
    Jesus.

3. The Mass is the sacrifice of Calvary
    sacramentally made present.

4. We live out our prayer every day
    in the Morning Offering.

5. Say Daily Prayer

6. Mary is our spiritual Mother --

Consecration to Mary

Dear Mary, my holy mother, I love you so much and I give you my heart. Help me to love God. Help me to love my neighbor as a child of God. Help me to love myself as a child of God. Amen.

7.

Consecration to Jesus

Dear Sacred Heart of Jesus, I love You so much and I give You my heart. Help me to love God. Help me to love my neighbor as a child of God. Help me to love myself as a child of God. Amen.

8. We seek to die to inordinate
    attachments to live
    more purely.

9. Mary was conceived without
    sin.

10. From the Priestly Newsletter Book III by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

The Holy Spirit And Mary

The late Archbishop Luis M. Martinez of Mexico strikingly speaks of the ongoing cooperation of Mary with the Holy Spirit regarding the reproduction of Jesus within us: "Christian life is the reproduction of Jesus in souls…

"Now, how will this mystical reproduction be brought about in souls? In the same way in which Jesus was brought into the world, for God gives a wonderful mark of unity to all His works. Divine acts have a wealth of variety because they are the work of omnipotence; nevertheless, a most perfect unity always shines forth from them because they are the fruit of wisdom; and this divine contrast of unity and variety stamps the works of God with sublime and unutterable beauty.

"In His miraculous birth, Jesus was the fruit of heaven and earth…The Holy Spirit conveyed the divine fruitfulness of the Father to Mary, and the virginal soil brought forth in an ineffable manner our most loving Savior, the divine Seed, as the prophets called Him…

"That is the way He is reproduced in souls. He is always the fruit of heaven and earth.

"Two artisans must concur in the work that is at once God’s masterpiece and humanity’s supreme product: the Holy Spirit and the most holy Virgin Mary. Two sanctifiers are necessary to souls, the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, for they are the only ones who can reproduce Christ.

"Undoubtedly, the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary sanctify us in different ways. The first is the Sanctifier by essence; because He is God, who is infinite sanctity; because He is the personal Love that completes, so to speak, the sanctity of God, consummating His life and His unity, and it belongs to Him to communicate to souls the mystery of that sanctity. The Virgin Mary, for her part, is the co-operator, the indispensable instrument in and by God’s design. From Mary’s maternal relation to the human body of Christ is derived her relation to His Mystical Body which is being formed through all the centuries until the end of time, when it will be lifted up to the heavens, beautiful, splendid, complete, and glorious.

"These two, then, the Holy Spirit and Mary, are the indispensable artificers of Jesus, the indispensable sanctifiers of souls. Any saint in heaven can co-operate in the sanctification of a soul, but his co-operation is not necessary, not profound, not constant: while the co-operation of these two artisans of Jesus of whom we have just been speaking is so necessary that without it souls are not sanctified (and this by the actual design of Providence), and so intimate that it reaches to the very depths of our soul. For the Holy Spirit pours charity into our heart, makes a habitation of our soul, and directs our spiritual life by means of His gifts. The Virgin Mary has the efficacious influence of Mediatrix in the most profound and delicate operations of grace in our souls. And, finally, the action of the Holy Spirit and the co-operation of the most holy Virgin Mary are constant; without them, not one single character of Jesus would be traced on our souls, no virtue grow, no gift be developed, no grace increased, no bond of union with God be strengthened in the rich flowering of the spiritual life.

"Such is the place that the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary have in the order of sanctification. Therefore, Christian piety should put these two artisans of Christ in their true place, making devotion to them something necessary, profound, and constant." ¹⁸

18. Archbishop Luis M. Martinez, The Sanctifier, op. cit. pp. 5-7.

        Sing: Immaculate Mary

        Sing: Hail Holy Queen