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
27, 2021
25 Years Ago
Mary's Message
August 27, 1996
August 26, 2021
R.
God is light and in Him is no darkness.
My soul doth magnify the
Lord and my Spirit rejoices in God my Savior.
Beauty
For the Mighty one has
done great things to me
and Holy is His Name.
Mary has powerful
intercession.
Mary is Mediatrix of Grace.
Grace flows through Mary.
Far more love for us than
any earthly Mother.
Mary walks by our side.
The Holy Spirit dwells in
her Immaculate Heart.
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
From an old message
August 27, 2004
17 Years Ago
Mary asked a public gathering on the 5th
since April 5, 1995.
We have done this since this time.
Here is how Mary appeared February 5, 2004.
From Jesus
You are asked to come
on the 5th to Clearwater, Florida.
To pray as I have directed
for reparation to Our Two Hearts,
and beg forgiveness for the sins
of the people of this earth
and beg your Heavenly Father for mercy.
I am Jesus Chief Shepherd of the Flock.
I appear to you in Clearwater, Florida.
You must pray as never before.
This is a warning and a gift I give to you.
Listen to Me.
Rita will be there through the weekend to
sign books.
God wants us to pray as He has asked
us
to pray begging for mercy
and that the world will be the way
that He desires. Jesus gives us His face.
August 23, 2004
Jesus speaks: Special grace will be granted
graces of
healing, physical and spiritual
during the
retreat. Come to China,
for I will
outpour My grace to you.
Excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima
& Medjugorje
by Father Carter, S.J.
More than 30,000 people
were present in September, and saw a shower of mysterious white petals
fall to within 10 feet of the ground before dissolving into the air. Many
also saw the globe of light bearing the Lady come to rest atop the tree,
and the branches bend as though someone were standing on them. Later, they
saw the cloud depart into the east, from whence it had come.(16)
16. Our Lady's Peace Plan,
op
cit., p.6.
September 13, 1917
August 27, 2004
August 27, 1996
8 Years Ago Today
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,
August 27, 1996
August 27, 2004 message continues
Mary speaks:
My children I stood beneath the
cross of my Son and I cried.
You know how you love your
children and do not want them
to die.
My children, people are going
to hell forever and
I appeared 7 years in
Clearwater and
I cry to you — for you
will not listen ——
My Son gives you the beautiful,
blue skies,
My Son gives you the beautiful,
blue ocean —
Your children are being poisoned
by satan —
Many souls are being lost —
HOW PRECIOUS IS THE
LIFE OF A SOUL
I AM a Messenger sent
by God
You will not listen.
If a child dies you feel the
loss — what about a
soul that goes to hell
forever.
You will not listen.
Your job here on earth is
to love God.
Listen to the First Commandment.
I, the Lord, am your God.
You shall not have other gods besides me.
August 27, 2004 message continues
Mary speaks:
Do you tell God you love Him?
This is the first commandment.
We have asked for 24 hour
adoration in China.
August 27, 2004 message continues
Mary speaks:
Who even comes?
You have 24 hours a day to love
and serve God —
many just want God to
serve them ——
and they don't give
any love to God and
call themselves
Christians ——
WHAT LOVE DO
YOU GIVE TO
GOD?
Do you realize He is
truly present in the
Eucharist — He is
there.
China is the Eucharistic
Center for the world —
you can't even spend
one hour with your
Divine Lover —
Matthew 26: 40-41
He came back to the disciples and found
them sleeping, and he said to Peter, ‘So you had not the strength to
stay awake with me for one hour? Stay awake, and pray not to
be put to the test. The spirit is willing enough, but human nature is
weak.’
August 27, 2004 message continues
Jesus speaks:
Can't
you spend one
hour with Me?
Mary speaks:
Do you think God should
give you more and more and
more, but you do
not come to the Blessed
Sacrament and do
not show tender
love to God?
Oh my People —
Do you love God?
A son and daughter is
so precious and yet
you are missing
the boat many times —
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August 27, 2004 message continues
Mary speaks:
I APPEAR, I APPEAR
AND I AM IGNORED.
Souls are going into
hell like rain.
Please watch — do an
honor guard —
come to China and be with
Jesus 24 hours
a day to help make
reparation for your
sins and the sins of
the world.
Beg for mercy.
Tell God you are
sorry.
Look at the 10
Commandments —
The Ten Commandments
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I, the Lord, am your God. You
shall not have other gods besides me.
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You shall not take the name
of the Lord, your God, in vain.
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Remember to keep holy the
Sabbath day.
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Honor your father and your
mother.
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You shall not kill.
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You shall not commit
adultery.
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You shall not steal.
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You shall not bear false
witness against your neighbor.
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You shall not covet your
neighbor's wife.
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You shall not covet anything
that belongs to your neighbor.
August 27, 2004 message continues
Mary speaks:
do you obey them?
Read them again —
see how they are
disobeyed by the people
of the earth.
So many souls are going
into hell —
You must pray for the
souls.
Pray for the priests to be
holy priests.
Pray for the Church and the
world as my Son
Jesus has told you.
Given to Father Carter
on the Feast of St. Ignatius
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)
August 27, 2004 message continues
Mary speaks:
Please go to China.
Great grace of healing
is given for all who
come on the 5th to
Florida and
to China to pray —
pray with the live picture
of the Church in
China — pray with
those before the
Blessed Sacrament.
Messenger:
Mary shared the life of
Jesus with Him.
She suffered the poverty,
she suffered with Him in the
Passion.
We are able to share the life
with Jesus more deeply when we
meditate on the mysteries. (of the rosary)
Jesus is with us today in the
Blessed Sacrament, waiting His
beloved souls, the ones He gave
His life for to come and be with
Him.
Mary is Mother of the Eucharistic
Jesus. We should come to the
Eucharist with a heart likened to Mary
and beg for her purity to love her
Son so deeply.
How is it that God, the Son of
God remains with us today and we,
so many of us, ignore this great
gift given to us.
Read the Blue Book Messages,
the letters of His love and hear Him
call us to Himself, truly present
in the Eucharist.
We can search for our answers
from books and people and yet when we
realize more and more that God, the
Divine God is truly present in the
Eucharist, we will go to Him more
and more and prostrate ourselves pouring
out our deepest love.
He so desires this.
Introduction
April 13, 1994
Words of Jesus. Read
before the Tabernacle.
Jesus speaks: How, child, do I, Jesus, tell
you I love you? You hold on to silly things when God is in your midst and is
ardently loving you. I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I am writing to each
precious child this day. I am on fire for love of you. I remain in the
Eucharist to be with you with My ardent love. I did not want to leave My
beloved ones at the Last Supper. I love you so, My dear and ardently loved
children. I remain with you this day in the Blessed Sacrament, the same
Jesus Who died a brutal death on the Cross.
end of excerpt
A City on a Hill Shines to the World
February 23, 1994 5:30 a.m.
Jesus: I am the light of the world. A city on a
hill will shine to the world. You at the Center will be this city when you
are filled to the brim with the love of Jesus. What power, what might, to
have each person a personal spouse of Jesus Christ! This is the light to the
darkened world. The love of Jesus radiates from the very being of those who
love Him. What light when all together are lifted by His love abounding deep
within their breasts!
end of excerpt
August 27, 2004 message continues
Messenger:
God is love —
If He delivered a message to the
cold hearts of today do we
not think it would be
a cry to reach the souls
with His love message and
tell them how He longs for their
love and wants them to come to
the tabernacle and before the
exposed Eucharist and adore
Him for all the neglect He
is getting.
The angel appeared before
the Fatima apparitions
here is what the angel said.
From the Spirituality of Fatima
by Father Carter, S.J.
The angel came...bearing a golden chalice in one hand
and a Host above it in the other. The amazed children noticed that drops
of blood were falling from the Host into the chalice. Presently, the angel
left both suspended in mid-air and prostrated himself on the ground,
saying this beautiful prayer: "Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and
Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly. I offer You the most precious Body,
Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all tabernacles of
the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifference by
which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
and [the intercession of] the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of Thee the
conversion of poor sinners." 5
5. Our Lady of Fatima's Peace Plan from
Heaven [Rockford: TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., 1983]. p. 2.
August 27, 2004 message continues
Messenger:
Not more philosophical things,
but tender hearts of love.
God is so powerful.
We the children of Mary should go
and be with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
August 27, 2004 message continues
Messenger:
Let us come in silence to the tabernacle
and adore Jesus, the King of Kings,
the Son of God.
God who is love —
Who desires our heartfelt love —
Do we show Him love?
Jesus gives us Himself in the
consecrated host.
God gives us Himself in such a
humble form.
August 27, 2004 message continues
Messenger:
How can we ignore the Son of God, so many
of us — truly present in the
Eucharist.
God has all the power.
Jesus speaks: to
those who come to Me
before the exposed Eucharist and
before the tabernacle and receive
Me in the Blessed Sacrament —
I outpour My richest graces
to you for all your needs.
You wonder down empty roads
searching for the song of your
soul, which you can only find
in Me.
August 27, 2004 message continues
Messenger:
We offer sacrifice in the Mass —
begging for mercy from God
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world,
have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world,
have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world,
grant us peace.
August 27, 2004 message continues
Messenger:
Mary is the perfect disciple of Jesus.
August 27, 2004 message continues
Mary speaks:
The Heavenly Father
wants you to worship
and adore Jesus in the
Blessed Sacrament.
Jesus remains here to give you
love — He remains for the
precious children of the earth, the ones
He loved so much He gave His life
for them.
You are to be souls going to Mass and
to the Blessed Sacrament, begging
God to outpour His grace on the
priests, the Church and the world.
You are to be special intercessory
souls in the Shepherds of Christ Movement —
begging God for mercy — praying
as God has taught you and asked you
to pray — showing such love to God.
Do you want the Reign of the Sacred
Heart in all hearts? Jesus is truly
present and with you in the
Eucharist, no less present than the
day He walked the earth.
Tell God you want to help
make reparation for the offences
against Him. Help make reparation
to my Immaculate Heart. I am the
Immaculate Conception, the New
Eve, I am a gift given to the
children of the earth.
Mary by day
July 5, 2000
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by night
July 5, 2000
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Revelation Chapter 12
Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with
the sun, standing on the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She
was pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth. Then
a second sign appeared in the sky: there was a huge red dragon with seven
heads and ten horns, and each of the seven heads crowned with a coronet. Its
tail swept a third of the stars from the sky and hurled them to the
ground, and the dragon stopped in front of the woman as she was at the
point of giving birth, so that it could eat the child as soon as it was
born. The woman was delivered of a boy, the son who was to rule
all the nations with an iron scepter, and the child was taken straight
up to God and to his throne, while the woman escaped into the desert, where
God had prepared a place for her to be looked after for twelve hundred and
sixty days.
And now war broke out in heaven, when
Michael with his angels attacked the dragon. The dragon fought back with
his angels, but they were defeated and driven out of heaven. The great
dragon, the primeval serpent, known as the devil or Satan, who had led all
the world astray, was hurled down to the earth and his angels were hurled
down with him. Then I heard a voice shout from heaven, 'Salvation and power
and empire for ever have been won by our God, and all authority for his
Christ, now that the accuser, who accused our brothers day and night before
our God, has been brought down. They have triumphed over him by the blood of
the Lamb and by the word to which they bore witness, because even in the
face of death they did not cling to life. So let the heavens rejoice and all
who live there; but for you, earth and sea, disaster is coming-- because the
devil has gone down to you in a rage, knowing that he has little time left.'
As soon as the dragon found himself
hurled down to the earth, he sprang in pursuit of the woman, the mother of
the male child, but she was given a pair of the great eagle's wings to fly
away from the serpent into the desert, to the place where she was to be
looked after for a time, two times and half a time. So the serpent
vomited water from his mouth, like a river, after the woman, to sweep her
away in the current, but the earth came to her rescue; it opened its mouth
and swallowed the river spewed from the dragon's mouth. Then the dragon was
enraged with the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her
children, who obey God's commandments and have in themselves the witness of
Jesus.
August 27, 2004 message continues
Mary speaks:
The Church is mother.
God has given you the Church.
I cry to you as your spiritual
Mother to pray for the priests,
the Church and the world as
God has told you.
Apostles
of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus
My dear fellow
Associate Members,
Jesus is calling special apostles to join a new division
of the Shepherds of Christ Movement. Here is a message from Jesus given to
Father Carter:
My beloved priest-companion, I am requesting that a new prayer movement be
started under the direction of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I am asking
for volunteers who are willing to pray before the Blessed Sacrament for one
hour, twice-weekly. Members of the Shepherds of Christ prayer chapters, as
well as others, are to be invited to join this movement.
These apostles are to pray for the intentions I am giving you. For part of
the hour they are to use the prayers of the Shepherds of Christ Associates
Handbook. They may spend the rest of the hour as they so choose.
I will use this new prayer movement within My Shepherds of Christ Ministries
in a powerful way to help in the renewal of My Church and the world. I will
give great graces to those who join this movement. The name, Apostles of the
Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, is to be given to this movement.
I am inviting My beloved Rita Ring to be coordinator for this activity.
I pour out the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, Chief
Shepherd of the flock.
This is indeed a special calling for us to unite in one heart with His
Eucharistic Heart and pray for the following intentions:
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For the spread of the devotion to the Hearts of
Jesus and Mary culminating in the reign of the Sacred Heart and the
triumph of the Immaculate Heart.
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For the Pope.
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For all bishops of the world.
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For all priests.
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For all sisters and brothers in the religious life.
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For all members of the Shepherds of Christ
Movement, and for the spread of this movement to the world.
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For all members of the Catholic Church.
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For all members of the human family.
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For all souls in purgatory.
end of Apostles of the Eucharistic
Heart message
August 27, 2004 message continues
Mary speaks:
You must go to Jesus and pray
before the Blessed Sacrament with
the prayers He has given you.
August 27, 2004 message continues
Mary speaks:
Oh my children — the gift God
gives you in the Mass
and you miss it many
days.
Jesus remains truly present in
the Blessed Sacrament.
Jesus outpours knowledge in
your hearts in the 20 minutes
after you receive Holy
Communion. He remains
with you and gives you
intimate knowledge of Himself
and insights into the hidden mysteries —
it is imprinted deeply in your
soul — not in words, but in
the deep intimate love of
sharing deeply in His life and
knowing Him as He outpours
His abundant life to you
and you grow more saturated
in His life.
Oh my children, the gift if yours,
souls are being lost because
of your silence to speak
out about the Eucharist.
The power is in the Eucharist.
The souls are longing to be
fed.
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 27, 2004 message continues
Mary speaks:
Gems — outpoured to you —
the precious souls He gave
His life for.
Go to China, Indiana, go before the
Blessed Sacrament —
make China a place
of fervent adoration to
the Blessed Sacrament —
Jesus wants this ——
Revelation 22: 1-2
Then the angel showed me the river of life,
rising from the throne of God and of the Lamb and flowing crystal–clear. Down
the middle of the city street, on either bank of the river were the trees
of life, which bear twelve crops of fruit in a year, one in each month,
and the leaves of which are the cure for the nations.
Excerpt from November 12, 2001
Father Carter said, as he recalled Jesus born
in poverty in the stable, "Jesus picked this
little Church here and so much has
come out of this little humble place."
(We have sent the Newsletter from China to China)
I would hear the water, it sounded
like a falls when Father Carter went to
China to say Mass.
end of excerpt
Excerpt from July 27, 2001
Messenger:
Father Carter went to China twice a week all the way to September 8, 2000
our Blessed Mother's birthday, that was his last visit
to China to say Mass.
end of excerpt
Father Carter's Talk
February 18, 2000
Well, what should I say to you. It comes to my heart that I should start
off telling you about the Holy Family’s house, the little home they
lived in, in Nazareth which is now situated/surrounded by a Basilica
Church in Loreto, Italy. And I had the privilege of visiting that shrine.
How did their house get there—their little home all the way from
Nazareth to Loreto, Italy? There’re different theories on it. One which
seems very plausible to me is that during one of the crusades, when the
crusaders were in the Holy Land, they had great reason to fear that the
home of the Holy Family, the little house would be destroyed by the
enemies of Christianity. So they dismantled it and brought it back by ship
and then it was reassembled there at Loreto. And there is scientific proof
to back this up, for instance they say that the stone out of which the
Holy Family home/house was built is that which is used in the Holy Land
and it’s not indigenous at all to Italy. So I really do believe that is
the house where Jesus and Mary lived at Nazareth. And one of the first
things that strikes you about it is how tiny it is—very, very small—one
more indication that Our Lord did not need the trappings of this earth,
wealth and palatial surroundings and so forth to prove to show His
greatness. He was and is great simply because what He is in Himself, who
He is. And we get the same lesson, that’s one of the lessons which comes
out of His birth at Bethlehem; the kings of this earth come into this
world with great palatial showings and all the fanfare which surrounds the
life of royalty and yet the King of kings comes in this world in the
simplest surroundings. Again He teaches us many lessons from this, one of
them certainly is where does true greatness lie. It doesn’t lie in the
things which are outside of you, the things which surround you, it lies
within your very depths.
I think all of you here at China give a great witness to life of Jesus,
Mary and Joseph at Nazareth and to the birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem.
Your life is so simple. It is so hidden and yet like the life of Jesus at
Nazareth, it is meant to be redemptive. His life certainly was redemptive
those first 33 years of His existence. And I think I said in a homily to
you some months ago, that if we had it to plan we certainly would have
arranged, I’m sure all of us, Jesus’ life here on earth differently. I
don’t think in the depths of our heart if we’re honest with ourselves,
if the Father says, “you map out the way you think Jesus, My Son, should
live here below in the time allotted,” who of us, who of us would have
had Him hidden away for 10/11ths
of that mortal life span. We would have given much more time to His public
life. And here Jesus under the Father teaches us a great lesson—that we
share in His redemptive efforts proportionate to the depth of our love and
as that life of love is supported by faith and hope so Jesus takes the
most humble places and He takes the most simple living people and He uses
those simple places and those simple people to accomplish great things. So
glory in your existence here at China, in its hiddenness and ask for the
faith to realize more and more the great good you are doing for the
Movement and the Church and the world.
There are so many lives of the saints which are at witness to this hidden
life of Jesus. And the one that usually comes first to my mind is that of
St. Therese of Lisieux, who lived that very, very very hidden life in the
cloistered convent at Lisieux and only for nine short years. She entered,
as I’m sure you know it, with special dispensation from the pope. She
entered at 15 and died at 24. And the good she accomplished in those nine
years at Carmel, that was already achieved before she was canonized and
people came to know about her great life of holiness. But during those
nine short years at Carmel she was doing so so so much to help in the
salvation of souls. And her life was so ordinary, so much so in its
external framework, so much so that I think it’s, if I remember
correctly, her sisters—the nuns with whom she lived with in the
Carmelite convent there were surprised when the her cause for
beatification was introduced. And why was her life so great—because she
did the simplest things, everything with the great depth of faith and hope
and love, those gifts which the Holy Spirit showered her with in
tremendous depth.
And so your life
here at China is in such great imitation of Jesus, Mary and Joseph at
Nazareth and such great saints as St. Therese of Lisieux, those saints who
lived such a hidden existence. And so first of all I thank you for
persevering in this life. I think I have some more than ordinary insight
into the greatness you are contributing towards the Movement and the
Church and the world. So I thank you very profusely and I also highly
encourage you to persevere in this life and to pray for the grace to get a
deepened insight into just how great your life is here at China for the
cause of Christ.
God’s ways are
not our ways nor His thoughts are not our thoughts. And so contrary to the
way that so much of the world thinks and even many in the Church it puts
such great emphasis on those activities which attract public attention and
acclaim and so forth. We know that God looks first of all to the depth of
love, a love of His will, the depth of loving conformity to His
will—this is how He measures the success of a life. The external
framework of which that life is lived as it were as secondary, always
secondary to the depth of faith, hope and love, a depth of a loving
conformity of one’s will to the Father’s will in Christ, through
Christ in the Spirit with a prayerful assistance of Mary our Mother. Amen.
So in summary, thank you for persevering in your life here. Secondly, pray
for a deepened insight into the greatness of your life here, what it means
for the Church, the Movement and the world. And thirdly, pray for a great
sense of joy for the vocation, the calling Jesus has given you, at least
at this time of your life, to your life here in China.
Holy
Family of Nazareth pray for us.
Heavenly Father, I ask your most special blessings on your specially
chosen ones here as I have just put before them and requesting them,
suggesting to them to pray for an increased light of their greatness here
and strength to live by that light. So I ask You Heavenly Father
abundantly to give them that grace. Give them great sense of peace and joy
here despite the trials they have to endure as Your Son showed us
suffering, even deep suffering is not contrary to peace in the Lord.
Father, let them know how special they are to You. Bless them most
abundantly now and all the days of their life. Father, I put this petition
before you through your Son Jesus in the Holy Spirit with the prayerful
assistance of Mary our Mother. Amen.
May the Blessing of Almighty God, Father Son and Holy Spirit descend upon
you and remain forever. Amen.
end
of Father Carter's Talk
God, to the soul that
loves and serves
You
You give us the
gift of eternal
life
—
What a gift
—
Mary speaks:
I am Mary
Jesus loves His precious
souls. He died for them.
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