August 25, 2024
August 26th Holy Spirit Novena |
The Novena Rosary
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Consecration Prayer for Peace
I consecrate Russia and the Ukraine to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
I further consecrate the priests, the Church and the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary.
I do this in the name of Jesus in as far as I am able, united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, praying to the Father, in the Holy Spirit, with all the angels and saints and the souls in purgatory through the powerful intercession of Mary, Queen of Peace. Amen.
I further consecrate myself, all members of my family and ask the Holy Spirit to fill us. I spread the Blood of Jesus on all above, I cast the devil into hell away from all of us and consecrate all persons, in as far as I am able, to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart.
Prayer for Grace for Election and 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. We pray for the upcoming election.
Morning Offering
Dear Father,
I offer up all I do all day united to Jesus
in the Mass, in the Holy Spirit, through
the powerful intercession of Mary, our
spiritual Mother, with all the angels and
saints, and the souls in purgatory, for
the priest, the Church, and the world.
We love You God so much.
We thank You and adore You and
petition You for our needs. Amen.
Shepherds of Christ
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August 25, 2024
R. Willfulness is the enemy of the spiritual
life.
The devil wants willfulness, disobedience
to God the Father’s will.
When we give our hearts to Jesus and Mary,
we operate in one mind and one heart, in
the Father’s will, not disobeying the Father’s
will.
God has a Plan for our lives, a unique
contribution He wants from us to contribute
to the building of the Kingdom of God.
When we don’t answer that unique call it
never quite can be done by another person.
They have their call, we have ours.
We are unique, God commissioned us in
baptism.
The essence of pleasing our Heavenly
Father is doing His will in love.
Obedience means we obey our Heavenly
Father.
There are two roads, obeying God, or
disobeying God.
To not decide to act is a decision.
Souls are going into hell like rain, Mary said.
Can you imagine a soul dying tonight and
going to hell forever?
St. Ignatius in the Spiritual Exercises says
one mortal sin we don ‘t ask for forgiveness
is enough to have a very bad end.
In the Mass we identify with Christ asking to
die to sins we commit to grow more and
more in the image and likeness of Jesus.
Every Mass we attend should greater
transform us and prepare us for heaven.
In the Our Father it says… "Thy will be
done on earth as it is in heaven."
Heaven is for lovers.
All we do should be for the honor and
glory and love of God.
We want God to come and possess our soul!!
August 23, 2024
30 Years Ago
Jesus: I gave you this prayer
January 17, 1994
as a way to live your life in Shepherds of Christ.
Fr. Carter kept a laminated copy of My prayer,
next to his heart, always with a picture of My
Sacred Heart.
You cannot serve 2 Masters.
You were created to know, love and serve the
Lord and thereby attain your eternal salvation.
Prayer for Union with Jesus
Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.
I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling in me.
I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of The Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.
When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now. end
Jesus: I told you how to pray to the
Heavenly Father.
How do you pray the prayer…The Our Father
Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Jesus: My way is simple, those who disobey God
want to do their own will.
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Why give Me something else when I make
it clear to you My heavenly Father's will.
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Why give Me something else when I make
it clear to you My heavenly Father's will.
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Why give Me something else when I make
it clear to you My heavenly Father's will.
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I obeyed My Father’s will to My death
on the cross.
Mary is perfect Handmaid of Mine.
Mary is the New Eve —
Mary is your spiritual Mother.
Why give Me something else when I make
it clear to you My heavenly Father's will.
I am the Good Shepherd, I am God,
My way is obedience to God’s will and love.
I am all Good. Those who follow Me are
instruments of love and unity.
Let your “yes” be “yes” and your “no” be “no”,
Anything else is from the evil one.
I do not deceive nor can I be deceived.
I am your Savior, I am absolute truth.
Life is in Me.
I am the Good Shepherd.
August 23, 2024
R. Those things like Jesus
Unity
Purity
Commitment
Covenant
Absolute truth
Love
Sacrifice
Tenderness
Emptying of himself for the other
Trustworthy
True to one’s word
Self-less
To go to Mass - interior offering so pure
Immolation of one’s sinfulness
(complete death of evil within oneself, as
Christ who immolated Himself for our sins)
Immolation of Christ at Mass (the unbloody sacrifice).
Immolation of evil in us at Mass.
You must love the Lord your God with
your whole heart and with your whole
soul and love your neighbor as yourself.
The 3 Loves
1) love of God
2) love of neighbor
3) love of self
God is love
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Whatever we do, do in love, according
to God’s will.!!
Whatever you do, do for the glory of God.
Everything you do should be an expression
of what you received at baptism.
Love is the gift of self to promote the
good in the one or ones loved.
Love is giving and receiving love.
When you give love you help others grow.
The city set on a hill that is lighted cannot
be hidden.
Let us build the city of light
and glorify your Heavenly Father,
you are doing His will.
What does it profit man to win the whole
world and lose his soul?
Jesus is the light of the world.
Jesus is the light of life.
Jesus is the answer.
Mark 3: 34-35
And looking at those sitting in a circle round him, he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers. Anyone who does the will of God, that person is my brother and sister and mother.’
Matthew 7: 21‘It is not anyone who says to me, "Lord, Lord," who will enter the kingdom of Heaven, but the person who does the will of my Father in heaven.
R. A person that chooses the wrong things is
attached to the wrong things.
If God asked us to do something, He gives
us the grace to do it.
Does it matter if He asked me to carry a
pebble or a boulder?
He gives me the grace to do it.
Sin is really hatred of myself.
Love is the gift of self to promote the good
of those loved.
We are to be children of the light.
We are to forgive from the heart.
Jesus is the teacher of love.
Pray for a greater realization how God loves
us in Christ. Jesus is a teacher. Jesus is a teacher.
1 John 4:10
Love consists in this: it is not we who loved God, but God loved us and sent his Son to expiate our sins.
R. We love God because He loved us first.
Faith, a participation in God’s knowing.
Hope, desire and trust, a desire to live according
to the vision of faith.
Prudence – helps us to make the correct
decision according to God’s will.
Justice give others what is their due.
Courage, fortitude – deal with difficult
aspects of life properly.
Temperance allows us to handle the pleasurable
in our society according to God‘s will
Humility, humility is truth.
Luke 1:46, 55And Mary said:
My soul proclaims
the greatness of the Lord
—according to the promise
he made to our ancestors—
of his mercy to Abraham
and to his descendants for ever.
R. The humble person knows their place.
God is the Creator.
We are the creatures.
We live our creaturehood.Colossians 1: 15-20
He is the image of the unseen God,
the first–born of all creation,
for in him were created all things
in heaven and on earth:
everything visible
and everything invisible,
thrones, ruling forces,
sovereignties, powers —
all things were created through him
and for him.
He exists before all things
and in him all things hold together,
and he is the Head of the Body,
that is, the Church.
He is the Beginning,
the first–born from the dead,
so that he should be supreme in every way;
because God wanted all fullness
to be found in him
and through him
to reconcile all things to him,
everything in heaven
and everything on earth,
by making peace through his death
on the cross.
R. Heaven is to know
this Divine embrace
from the Almighty God –
To be satisfied, full of
life, to be filled with
love, to love all and to
be in unity in such wellness with all –
the beatific vision -
wrapped in the divine embrace,
knowing God.
Shepherds of Christ Priestly Newsletter 2000 Issue 3
The Father's Will for Us - Our Source of Peace
Pope John Paul II instructs us: "The Church, as a reconciled and reconciling community, cannot forget that at the source of her gift and mission of reconciliation is the initiative, full of compassionate love and mercy, of that God who is love (see 1 John 4:8) and who out of love created human beings (see Wisdom 11:23-26; Genesis 1:27: Psalms 8:4-8)…He created them so that they might live in friendship with Him and in communion with one another.
"God is faithful to His eternal plan even when man, under the impulse of the evil one (see Wisdom 2:24) and carried away by his own pride, abuses the freedom given to him in order to love and generously seek what is good, and (instead) refuses to obey his Lord and Father. God is faithful even when man, instead of responding with love to God’s love, opposes Him and treats Him like a rival, deluding himself and relying on his own power, with the resulting break of relationship with the One who created him. In spite of this transgression on man’s part, God remains faithful in love.
"It is certainly true that the story of the Garden of Eden makes us think about the tragic consequences of rejecting the Father, which becomes evident in man’s inner disorder and in the breakdown of harmony between man and woman, brother and brother (see Genesis 3:12 ff; 4:1-16). Also significant is the Gospel parable of the two brothers (the parable of the ‘prodigal son’; see Luke 15:11-32) who, in different ways, distance themselves from their father and cause a rift between them. Refusal of God’s fatherly love and of His loving gifts is always at the root of humanity’s divisions.
"But we know that God…like the father in the parable (of the prodigal son), does not close His heart to any of His children. He waits for them, looks for them, goes to meet them at the place where the refusal of communion imprisons them in isolation and division. He calls them to gather about His table in the joy of the feast of forgiveness and reconciliation.
"This initiative on God’s part is made concrete and manifest in the redemptive act of Christ, which radiates through the world by means of the ministry of the Church." 13
13. Pope John Paul II, as in Celebrate 2000!, Servant Publications, pp. 140-141.
May 14, 2024
R. Dear Holy Spirit come to me, possess
my soul, I love You, Holy Spirit.
When I am weak, I am strong in You.
Outpour Your precious love to me. Amen.
I love You, God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Dear Holy Spirit infuse in my intellect
wisdom, knowledge and understanding.
Counsel me Holy Spirit from the mind of
God.
Help me, dear Holy Spirit to know the loving
embrace of God all the days of my life.
I turn to You. Amen.
When I find doing God's desire for my life
difficult give me the gift of fortitude, dear
Holy Spirit.
Sanctify my heart to act purely for the
honor and glory of God.
I may be willing, but I need Your gift to
give me courage to act as You desire.
Help me to know and love the heavenly
Father's will for me and to do it in love
for the honor and glory of God.
Help me to always put God first in my life,
in love for God in my heart.
Help me to walk realizing, I am the creature,
God is the Creator.
Help me to be patient and strong and
persevere in my life until I rest with Thee
forever in heaven.
Please Holy Spirit give me the gift of fear
of God that I do not offend you in sins
of unloving ways against God.
You are so good and deserving of all my
love.
I worship You and love You -
Help my interior disposition at Mass to be
that of purity in pleasing the Heavenly
Father, in my offering united to Jesus in
the Mass.
Dear Holy Spirit please help me in the gift
of piety to do that which pleases my Heavenly
Father with the tenderness as His little child.
Thank you God for all You give to me.
I pray this "All for the honor and Glory of
God". Amen.
Matthew 22: 36-40
'Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?' Jesus said to him, 'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets too.'
Dear Holy Spirit, strengthen our will and
move like a Divine breath in our soul, to
be docile sons and daughters of our
Heavenly Father. Amen.
Alleluia.
March 10, 2024
Novena to St. Joseph, Patron and Father (2024)
Begins March 11, 2024 - March 19, 2024
Dear Saint Joseph,
I turn to you, you who cared and
protected the child Jesus and the
Virgin Mary.
You taught men and women, the
love of God by your example in life,
and by your faithfulness of living
your calling in greatest commitment
and love.
You loved Mary and Jesus with the
most gentle, bonds of love.
You showed us how you
lived in loving conformity to the
Heavenly Father's will.
You guided Jesus and Mary's precious
lives with the Holy Spirit, Spouse of
the Virgin Mother of God.
Protect us and our family this day and
every day of our lives, like
you did the Holy Family of Nazareth.
We seek your powerful intercession.
How intimately you knew and loved
Jesus and Mary. You were so close to
them. You showed us love.
Your heart was pure and gentle and
yet you were strong in being their
manly protector on earth, intercede
for us to depend more and more on
God for all our needs, for when we
are weak we are strong in God.
St. Joseph please intercede for a
peaceful and holy death for us and
our sick loved ones.
Amen.
St. Joseph help us now in this nine
day novena to you.
Amen.
March 23, 2024
Prayer for Sick and Caregivers at Home
R. Dear God,
I pray Heavenly Father with all my heart,
in the Name of Jesus, united to the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass, in the Holy Spirit,
with all the angels and saints and souls
in purgatory, through the powerful
intercession of Our Lady of Clearwater
to come to my aid now.
My loved one is very sick and he (she)
needs your help, God.
Outpour Your grace for me in this time
of need to have patience and wisdom to
deal with this now.
I give this sickness up to You, my God.
Please help me in dealing with this and
helping them in doing the right thing
and dealing with this.
I surrender this problem to You, my
Divine God.
Please send Your angels to help me.
Spread us all with the Precious Blood of
Jesus, cast the devil into the fires of hell,
dear Holy Spirit come to my aid.
I consecrate my home, ourselves to the
Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate
Heart of Mary, Thank You.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I place my
trust in Thee.
Child Jesus of Good Health, help us.
St. Joseph, Patron of a Holy Death
come to our aid.
Amen.
August 12, 2024
Mysteries of Light
The Baptism of Jesus
1. Mark 1: 9-11
It was at this time that Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptised in the Jordan by John. And at once, as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit, like a dove, descending on him. And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my Son, the Beloved; my favour rests on you.’
2. God the
Father revealed His Son by the star and
the coming of the Magi.
3. In the Baptism of Jesus, God the Father revealed
His Son.
4. "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased."
5. John's
baptism was a baptism of repentance.
6. Father Joe says “It’s hard for us to understand
why Jesus, the sinless one, God’s son, came to
John for a baptism of repentance.”
7. John said, “I need to be baptized by you, and yet
you are coming to me?”
8. Water is life-giving through the sacrament of Baptism.
9. We see the Holy Spirit at Jesus’ baptism by John.
10. Sing: A Voice Cries out in the Wilderness
The Marriage at Cana
1. John 2: 1-10
On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. The mother of Jesus was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited. And they ran out of wine, since the wine provided for the feast had all been used, and the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ Jesus said, ‘Woman, what do you want from me? My hour has not come yet.’ His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’ There were six stone water jars standing there, meant for the ablutions that are customary among the Jews: each could hold twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, ‘Fill the jars with water,’ and they filled them to the brim. Then he said to them, ‘Draw some out now and take it to the president of the feast.’ They did this; the president tasted the water, and it had turned into wine. Having no idea where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew—the president of the feast called the bridegroom and said, ‘Everyone serves good wine first and the worse wine when the guests are well wined; but you have kept the best wine till now.’
2. Jesus began
His public life at the Baptism of
Jesus.
3. Jesus was ready to proclaim the Gospel, the
Good News, that for those who turned their
hearts to God, God’s Kingdom was there for
them.
4. The Father and the Spirit put their approval
on Jesus and would guide Him in this ministry
to the world, Father Joe says.
5. Apostle means, one who has been sent.
6. Matthew 28: 18-20
“All Power in heaven, and on earth, has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you."
7. “and behold, I am with you always, until the
end of the age. “
8. Jesus
changed water into wine at the wedding
feast of Cana.
9. Jesus’ first miracle was at the wedding feast
of Cana.
10. Baptism for us is a tremendous gift, we
receive a sharing in Divine life.
Building the Kingdom of God
1. John 18: 36-37
Jesus replied, ‘Mine is not a kingdom of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my men would have fought to prevent my being surrendered to the Jews. As it is, my kingdom does not belong here.’ Pilate said, ‘So, then you are a king?’ Jesus answered, ‘It is you who say that I am a king. I was born for this, I came into the world for this, to bear witness to the truth; and all who are on the side of truth listen to my voice.’
2. “His
kingdom would be ruled by one who is
described as the son of man.”
3. He has all the power.
4. Galatians 3:15
Dedicate yourselves to thankfulness, sing gratefully to God from your hearts and psalms, hymns, and inspired songs. Whatever you do, whether in speech or in action, do it in the name of the Lord Jesus. Thanks to God, the Father through him.”
5. Thank You,
God.
6. Honor God, love God, give praise to God, adore
God, God is worthy of this.
7. How awful it is to treat God disrespectfully
because of one’s own anger.
8. We build up God’s Kingdom by how we live
according to God’s will and love.
9. Come to me Lord and possess my soul.
10. Sing: The King of Glory
The Transfiguration
1. Mark 9: 2-8
Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John and led them up a high mountain on their own by themselves. There in their presence he was transfigured: his clothes became brilliantly white, whiter than any earthly bleacher could make them. Elijah appeared to them with Moses; and they were talking to Jesus. Then Peter spoke to Jesus, ‘Rabbi,’ he said, ‘it is wonderful for us to be here; so let us make three shelters, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.’ He did not know what to say; they were so frightened. And a cloud came, covering them in shadow; and from the cloud there came a voice, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved. Listen to him.’ Then suddenly, when they looked round, they saw no one with them any more but only Jesus.
2. "This is my
beloved son in whom I am well
pleased, listen to him."
3. Jesus says “I Am the Bread of Life”
4. Sing: Eye Has Not Seen
5. John 10: 11-15
I am the good shepherd:
the good shepherd lays down his life
for his sheep.
The hired man,
since he is not the shepherd
and the sheep do not belong to him,
abandons the sheep
as soon as he sees a wolf coming,
and runs away,
and then the wolf attacks
and scatters the sheep;
he runs away
because he is only a hired man
and has no concern for the sheep.
I am the good shepherd;
I know my own
and my own know me,
just as the Father knows me
and I know the Father;
and I lay down my life for my sheep.
6. Jesus wants
us to be disciples,
disciples of Jesus listen to Jesus.
7. Jesus says: I am the way, the truth, and
the life.
8. God is to be loved, to be honored, and
to be obeyed.
9. God gives us so many gifts in the Church.
10. Sing: Glory, Glory, Glory Lord
The
Institution of the Eucharist
1.
Mark 14: 22-25
And as they were eating he took bread, and when he had said the blessing he broke it and gave it to them. ‘Take it,’ he said, ‘this is my body.’ Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he handed it to them, and all drank from it, and he said to them, ‘This is my blood, the blood of the covenant, poured out for many. In truth I tell you, I shall never drink wine any more until the day I drink the new wine in the kingdom of God.’
2. A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb the Bridegroom of the Soul
Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.
A 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
3. From the Priestly Newsletter Book II
Thoughts on the Eucharist
In his recent book, Gift and Mystery, Pope John Paul II speaks of the Eucharist and the priest: “In the Eucharist, the Son, who is of one being with the Father…offers himself in sacrifice to the Father for humanity and for all creation. In the Eucharist Christ gives back to the Father everything that has come from him. Thus there is brought about a profound mystery of justice on the part of the creature toward the Creator. Man needs to honor his Creator by offering to him, in an act of thanksgiving and praise, all that he has received. Man must never lose sight of the debt, which he alone, among all other earthly realities, is capable of acknowledging and paying back as the one creature made in God’s own image and likeness. At the same time, given his creaturely limitations and sinful condition, man would be incapable of making this act of justice toward the Creator, had not Christ himself, the Son who is of one being with the Father and also true man, first given us the Eucharist.
“The priesthood, in its deepest reality, is the priesthood of Christ. It is Christ who offers himself, his Body and Blood, in sacrifice to God the Father, and by this sacrifice makes righteous in the Father’s eyes all mankind and, indirectly, all creation. The priest, in his daily celebration of the Eucharist, goes to the very heart of this mystery. For this reason the celebration of the Eucharist must be the most important moment of the priest’s day, the center of his life.”4
4. Pope John Paul II, Gift and Mystery, Doubleday, pp. 74-75.
4. June 16, 2024
Happy Father’s Day to you and to our Heavenly Father. Thank you for all you do for us.
Fr. Carter, S.J., our founder, wrote the Priestly Newsletter before his death – he loved this quote from Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis AAS, XXXV, 232-233:
“Through the Eucharistic Sacrifice Christ the Lord desired to
set before us in a very special way this
remarkable union whereby we are united one
with another and with our divine Head, a
union that no word of praise can ever
sufficiently express. For in this sacrifice
the sacred ministers act not only as the
representative of our Saviour, but as the
representative of the whole Mystical Body
and of each one of the faithful. Again, in
this act of sacrifice, the faithful of
Christ, united by the common bond of
devotion and prayer, offer to the eternal
Father through the hands of the priest,
whose prayer alone has made it present on
the altar, the Immaculate Lamb, the most
acceptable victim of praise and propitiation
for the Church's universal need. Moreover,
just as the divine Redeemer,
while dying on the Cross, offered Himself to
the eternal Father as Head of the whole
human race, so now, 'in this clean oblation'
He not only offers Himself as Head of the
Church to His heavenly Father but in Himself
His mystical members as well. He embraces
them all, yes, even the weaker and more
ailing members, with the deepest love of His
Heart.”
In the Morning Offering
we unite all our prayers, works, joys and
sufferings to the Mass and offer our lives
to our Heavenly Father, in the Holy Spirit,
through the powerful intercession of the
Blessed Virgin Mary, for love of the Trinity
and all our needs.
In the Mass we know that the Father
accepts the sacrifice of Jesus. As members
of the mystical body of Christ we are united
to the Mass going on around the world.
Dear Heavenly Father, we are Your little
ones and want to be united to You all day
offering up what we do as an offering united
to the Mass.
From the Constitution on the Sacred
Liturgy … “the liturgy is the summit
toward which the activity of the Church is
directed; at the same time it is the font
from which all her power flows.”
The Heavenly Father created us in love.
We are so precious to Him. We can be
faithful little children of our Heavenly
Father, all day, offering what we do, united
to the Mass.
At the Baptism of Jesus the Father tells
us about Jesus His Son “This is My beloved
Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
Matthew 3
He tells us about Sonship to our Father. We want to please Him.
At the Transfiguration, He says:
“This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased, listen to Him.”
Luke 9
Again, we want our lives to be united to Jesus and our lives to be pleasing to the Father.
The Father tells us to listen to Jesus, disciples of Jesus listen to Him.
Oh Heavenly Father, we want to do Your will and live in love to please You, please help us, outpour Your grace.
In the Mass, we die to our self-will more and more to live more the life of Resurrection.
Death/Resurrection are so linked, dying to our selfish will to be more and more in the image of Jesus and live more and more, the life of resurrection.
We may have tried in Lent to have a more pure interior disposition at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and unite more in pleasing our Father in unity with Jesus.
What we did in Lent should be working more and more now as we seek greater holiness in these days after Easter living more the life of Resurrection.
Mark 3:31-35
Now his mother and his brothers arrived and, standing outside, sent in a message asking for him. A crowd was sitting round him at the time the message was passed to him, ‘Look, your mother and brothers and sisters are outside asking for you.’ He replied, ‘Who are my mother and my brothers?’ And looking at those sitting in a circle round him, he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers. Anyone who does the will of God, that person is my brother and sister and mother.’
We see what Jesus says here, how important it is living the Father’s will.
The Father’s family living in the Father’s will.
We can live the Mass out every day, in our lives, dying to self-will and rising in Him.
The pascal mystery.
We live the life, death and resurrection of Christ in our lives lovingly, according to the Father’s will and the Father is pleased.
The more we die to selfish-will, the more we live the life of resurrection.
We see death and resurrection as linked, if I die to my selfish ways, I grow more in the life of resurrection.
We as Christians should live constantly dying to ways not like Jesus to rise in the life of resurrection and greater likened to Jesus.
We constantly seek greater life in Him, day by day, to be greater filled with His life.
His grace is His life in us.
We live the Mystery of Christ in our lives.
In the Mass, we die more and more to self-will.
We seek the interior disposition of greater purity at Mass, dying to bad habits of sinfulness to rise to greater purity in Him and offer a more pleasing sacrifice in oneness with Jesus, to the Father in the Mass.
Death / Resurrection!!
We are fed by the Bread of Life in the Mass, we are fed with the Word and eat His Body and drink His Blood.
God is the ultimate mystery, we seek for
greater understanding of this by living more
this magnificent mystery of Christ in our
lives.
Through Him, with Him and in Him
We live this in different ways in our vocation.
A mother is united to the Mass caring for her children in loving conformity to God’s will.
A religious is living in loving conformity to God’s will in serving as a sister, brother, priest, etc.
From the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy
… the liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it is the font from which all her power flows.
Our heart should be transformed when we come to the Mass.
We seek the heavenly Father to accept the sacrifice of ourselves united to Jesus in the Mass.
Death / Resurrection
Dying to sin and the Father accepts our sacrifice (living the life of Resurrection).
...I have been crucified with Christ and yet
I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but
Christ living in me.
Galatians 2: 19-20
Dying to self-will
An even more perfect victim in union
with Christ in the Mass….
Through Him, With Him and In Him
The Mass Lived Out all Day!!
We offer up all we do all day living in loving conformity to the Father’s will in the Morning Offering. This is dying to self- rising to new life in Him. (Our constant offering all day, doing the Father’s will in love in our lives united to the Mass going on around the world for the salvation of souls).
We say in the Mass
“May the Lord accept the sacrifice at
your hands
for the praise and glory of His name,
for our good, and the good of His holy
Church.”
To know God is to love God. Deeper and deeper He makes Himself known to us in our hearts at Mass.
Jesus is the Light of the world, the Light of Life.
I love Him so much, so deep in my heart, in my being and He loves me, I know this in my being.
Love is beyond words, it is oneness in our heart and soul with Him.
“It is no longer, I who live, but He who lives in me.” Galatians 2 And I want to be with Him, someday, in the fullness of life in heaven, in union with the one Triune God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, in the beatific vision. Embraced with Divine Love. Amen.
We think we’re doing things ourselves, but we need God to do things. I feel so needy here, but I have to do what God wants and that pleases Him, everything is an offering united to the Mass, to the Father, even my attempts when I feel frustrated and tried, think of how perfectly Christ did what He did in the Passion and death.
Perfect Love, perfect gift to His Father and the Father is well pleased.
Basically I need God and others a lot!
Thank you for all you do.
Without the priest we wouldn’t have the Eucharist.
We pray for you!!
Love and Prayers,
Rita Robinson Ring, Co-founder
Shepherds of Christ Ministries
5. March 19, 2024
The Documents of Vatican II, "Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy", America Press Edition, No. 10.Happy Easter!
I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you in love.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.Jesus lived the quiet life for 30 years and the public life for 3 years.
God’s ways are not necessarily our ways.
He came in love so we could be with Him, someday forever in heaven.
Jesus loved us so much He went through the bitter Passion and death so we could have “new life” in Him.
He paid a precious price for our sins.
In the death, there is the resurrection!
The Pascal Mystery - Death / Resurrection!!
The Mass is the sacrifice of Calvary, sacramentally made present.
Without the priest, we would not have the Eucharist.
It isn’t that there is too much suffering in the world, but so much is wasted,
Fr. Carter S. J., our founder, would say.
We live the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, in our lives, united to the Mass in the Morning Offering and grace is outpoured, praying to the Father, united to Jesus, in the Holy Spirit, through the powerful intercession of Mary, our spiritual Mother, with all the angels and saints, and the souls in purgatory. We offer our joys, suffering, all we do like this, (it is the intention of my heart always to be united to the Mass going on around the world), I pray for this, offering it up for the priest, the Church and the world.
I love the priest and the Church and the world so much. The world belongs to Christ, even though the world has been marred by sin.
The world, the Church, and the individual Christian are in the state of becoming more Christic, (that is more in the image of Christ). We help in this (a pilgrim Church, a work in progress). We are members of the body of Christ, with Christ, our head.
We help build the Kingdom of God.
When we are weak, we are strong in Him, and grace is abundantly outpoured through the Mass.
So good!!!
So beautiful!!!
Here is a prayer to say daily “Morning Offering”.
Dear Father,
I offer up all I do all day united to Jesus in the Mass, in the Holy Spirit, through
the powerful intercession of Mary, our spiritual Mother, with all the angels and
saints, and the souls in purgatory, for the priest, the Church, and the world.
We love You God so much.
We thank You and adore You and petition You for our needs. Amen.
The victory has been won, we must follow Jesus and walk in Jesus’ ways. Alleluia!!!
Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.
Follow Jesus, love God.
Obey and love the Heavenly Father.
Pray to the Holy Spirit to infuse in our intellects: wisdom, and knowledge and understanding.
Come Holy Spirit fill us with the fire of God’s love.
Life is in Him!
This is the precious gift, Jesus suffered so, to give us a sharing in His life in Baptism.
And He feeds this life with Himself in the Eucharist.
Blood and water came forth from Jesus’ pierced Heart:
Water for Baptism -
Blood for the Eucharist.
Vatican II points out to us: “…the liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it is the fountain from which all her power flows…”
6. Song: I Love You Jesus
7. Song: In My Heart
8. Song: A Song from Jesus
9. Prayer for Spiritual Communion
Dear Jesus – we want to make a spiritual
communion, we cannot receive You
now, but we want to know Your
presence deep in our heart –
deep in our soul
– Oh God fill us
with Your presence that we can
just focus on You and Your love
for us now – Love deep in us –
Oneness with You –
Quiet surrender to be alone in
this moment with You in our heart
in deep love –
We love You so much our beloved
God
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10. Sing: How Great Thou Art
Previous Daily Writing
Daily Writing Calendar
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Mass Book,
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Rosary Meditations
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God's Blue Book IV by Rita Ring. This book is about the love Jesus has for Mary and Mary has for Jesus and Jesus and Mary have for us It is truly the Love of the Two Hearts. Mary appeared every day at the Holy Spirit Center Fr. Carter was there. Mary's first apparition July 5, 1994. $5 |
God's Blue Book V by Rita Ring. Jesus wants to be the bridegroom of our soul He is our beloved Jesus tells us about pure love how we are to be pure of heart and love God and love others. It is a must, to hear about love from Jesus Jesus is love $5 |
God's Blue Book 6A by Rita Ring. Rosaries from Their Hearts during apparitions. Jesus and Mary appeared every day and I received rosaries from Them and They were transcribed from a tape. Also messages of love from Jesus on days of January, 1995 About Baptism writings from Fr. Carter and the Scriptures. $10 |
God's Blue Book 6B by Rita Ring. Jesus and Mary appeared every day in February, 1995 So beautiful transcribed from a tape the Stations, 7 Sorrows, prayers in the Prayer Manual, the Holy Spirit Novena Book and the Song Book. Pure love loving and forgiving a book about Jesus' love, baptism, grace and Fr. Carter's Newsletter. $10 |
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God's Blue Book 17 Life In Him $ 5.00
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God's Blue Book 18 Jesus, Bridegroom of Our Soul $ 5.00 |
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God's Blue Book 19 The Lamb of God $ 5.00 |
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God's Pre-Blue Book Loved in a Personal Way $ 5.00 |
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God's Pre-Blue Book 2 My Hand is Upon You $ 5.00 |
Apostles Manual. About the Movement — the structure of the Movement All Ministries — from the time 3 months before Mary appeared in Clearwater and 3 months after. Rosaries of the 13ths, Fr. Carter's Newsletters. Messages from God the Father Reaching the priests, the Church, the schools and the world. $20 |
Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary Book 1. Mary appeared in Clearwater December 17, 1996 in rainbow color and these rosaries left the printer the same day from Apparitions of Jesus and Mary transcribed from a tape. $10 |
Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary Book 2. This is a book of so many rosaries — transcribed from a tape. So many beautiful rosaries. pages $12 |
Messages for the Elderly, Ill and Homebound. This is a big book of loving messages for nursing home people and homebound from Jesus and Mary Their lives are so important united to the Mass offering up their suffering, their lives for the souls of this earth. $10 |
Short Rosary Meditations for the Elderly, Ill and Homebound. This book is so important with pictures they can open it and lay it on their laps and pray the rosary. $10 |
Songs from Jesus Songbook. These loving songs were given from Jesus. So beautiful Love Songs from Jesus of His love — helping us have pure and loving hearts. $3 |
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Guiding Light - The Mystery of Christ Guiding Light - The Mystery of Christ, Cycle A - Homilies for 2022 - 2023 $ 10.00 |
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Guiding Light - In the Image of Jesus Guiding Light - In the Image of Jesus Cycle C - Homilies for 2021 - 2022 $ 10.00 |
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Guiding Light — The Word Alive in Our Hearts. — Cycle B Homilies by the Reverend Joe Robinson given at St. Boniface Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is a tremendous honor Fr. Joe has allowed us to share these great gifts with you – for greater holiness and knowing more and more about God. $10 |
Guiding Light — The Soul Who Could. — Cycle A Homilies by the Reverend Joe Robinson given at St. Boniface Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. $10 |
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Guiding Light homily series — Reflect on the Word — Cycle B The Word leaves an impression on our souls. In my thoughts and reflections are born a more tangible understanding of these eternal concepts presented in the Gospels and the readings. Anyone can read a sentence, but not anyone can absorb it's true meaning. Truth, in this day and age, is almost a matter of opinion or individual entitlement. We believe that Christ's truth is our Roman Catholic Church. We, as priests, champion it's teachings; we are ambassadors for the Pope and Christ to those faces looking at us. We are the light by which our congregation reads to reflect upon real truth and we do it hand in hand. $10 |
Guiding Light homily series — Steadfast to the Son — Cycle A The sunflower is a great example of how we should be steadfastly guided by light. What a powerful thought that this exceptional plant is not stuck in one pose day in and day out, yet adaptable and magnetized to the sun. We feel the same about our Son. Our heads turns to face Christ as each day presents its challenges to find light. We join together like plants in a field and soak up the Son through the pulpit. We are a warm circle of strength using the wind of our breath to carry our priests' words, Christ's words, to new rich soil. $10 |
Guiding Light — Focusing on the Word — Cycle B At times we may feel that our path to Christ is a bit "out of focus". Like the disciples in the Book of Mark, this ordinary life clouds our vision of Christ's Divinity. We may doubt the practicality or possibility of applying His teachings and example to our modern life. Cycle B's homilies are a "guiding light" to help us realize Jesus' Messianic greatness and His promise of better things to come. $10 |
Guiding Light — Feed My Soul — Cycle C In a world rapidly advancing and encouraging personal gain, we are faced with modern problems. There is a challenge to find time in our busy schedules for Sunday Mass or a family meal. We are able to research, shop, bank and even work without hearing one human voice. It is no wonder that we may often feel disconnected and famished at our week's end. In Fr. Joe's third book of homilies from Cycle C, we are reminded of the charity that Christ intended us to show each other. We have a calling to turn the other cheek and be the Good Samaritan to others. We are rewarded with the Father's kingdom and love when we are not worthy. We are not left alone or hungry. $10 |
Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. |
Here are all the products in this category:
Books written by the founder of Shepherds of Christ Ministries
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Response to God’s Love by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J. In this book Fr. Carter speaks of God as the ultimate mystery. We can meditate on the interior life of the Trinity. Fr. Carter tells us about our uniqueness in the Father's Plan for us, how the individual Christian, the Church and the world are in the state of becoming. Imprimatur. $10 |
Shepherds of Christ — Selected Writings on Spirituality for all People as Published in Shepherds of Christ Newsletter for Priests. Contains 12 issues of the newsletter from July/August 1994 to May/June 1996. $15 |
Shepherds of Christ — Volume 2: by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J. Contains issues 13—29 of the newsletter (September/October 1996 — Issue 5, 1999) $15 |
Shepherds of Christ — Volume 3 by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J. Contains Newsletter Issues 1 through 4 of 2000 including Fr. Carter’s tremendous Overview of the Spiritual Life $10 |
Tell My People. Messages from Jesus and Mary (As given to Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.) One of Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.'s Synopsis of the Spiritual Life From Jesus to Fr. Carter "On Holy Saturday, 1994, Jesus told me that on the following day, Easter, I would also begin to receive messages for others. Our Lord also told me that some of these were eventually to be published in a book and here is that book." $10 |
Spirituality Handbook. Fr. Edward Carter, S.J. did 3 synopsis of the spiritual life. The Spirituality Handbook, the Priestly Newsletter 20he Tell My People book. The way of spiritual life proposed to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates is centered in consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. All aspects of the spiritual life discussed below should be viewed as means to help members develop their lives in consecration to Christ, the Sacred Heart, and to Mary, the Immaculate Heart. $3 |
The Spirituality of Fatima by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J. The Fatima apparitions and messages received official Church approval in 1930. In giving her official approval to the Fatima event, the Church tells us that what took place at Fatima involving the three young visionaries is worthy of our belief. $5 |
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Statues/Religious Items
Blue Crystal Rosary
Rosary with the Image of Our Lady of Clearwater
8mm - $ 40.00 plus shipping
Red Crystal Rosary
Rosary with the Image of Our Lady of Clearwater
8mm - $ 40.00 plus shipping
Clear Crystal Rosary
Rosary with the Image of Our Lady of Clearwater
8mm - $ 40.00 plus shipping
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R. Pray for these things
1) Pray for the Pope & hierarchy to help us start prayer chapters.
2) Pray for Special people.
3)
Pray for the priests, the Church and the world!
4) Pray for the spread of prayer chapters,
also for the spread of priests doing prayer chapters.
5) Pray for the spread of Blue Books.
6) People going to Florida and China.
7) Vocations to all 7 categories.
8) Pray for spread of Consecration and Rosary.
9) Pray for pope helping us.
10) Pray for Jeff.
11) Pray for the country
12) All intentions
on my list, Jerry's list.
13) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
14) Pray for Fr. Joe's new book, cover & funds for printing & postage.
15) Donors and members and their families.
16) Healing of the Family tree.
17) Pray for the Corona Virus to go away
18) All who asked us to pray for them.
19) All we promised to pray for.
20) Rita, Doris, Sheila, Jerry, Sanja, Fr. Mike, Louie, Laverne,
Fr. Joe, all priests helping us, Ed, Jimmy, Mary,
Carol R., a special couple, Rosie & all involved.
21) All of our families.
22) Funds and insurance.
23) All of our houses.
24) In thanksgiving for gifts, graces, & blessings received.
25) Spread the Blood of Jesus on all of us here.
26) Consecrate all hearts.
27) Cast the devil out of all of us here and all in Movement.
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